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'The Amazing Spider-Man' director: Why the web shooters are back

By InCinemas / 02 Aug 2011 (Tuesday)

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The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb is going for the traditional comic-book portrayal of the spider-webs. He explains why there is a need to show that the web-shooting devices are designed by the young Peter Parker, instead of coming from the body as seen in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002), in an interview with The LA Times.

"I had a meeting with Stan Lee and we talked about the web-shooters," Webb said. "I was curious about the incarnation of them [because] of course in the previous films [they went away from them] and we wanted to reestablish ourselves. That was one thing but the other thing was the fact that the web-shooters were able to dramatize Peter's intellect and I thought that was really cool... It was in the comics and we have a different design but it's a cool element to have. It's not something we over-use or over-exploit. To me, it's something I remember from when I was a kid and thinking 'It would be cool if I could build those.'"

Well, would you prefer to have a spiderman shooting his webs out of a device? From the picture, the web-shooting device feels a little bit of a lump on the wrist but this little thing is going to help the director in re-creating a whole new spiderman for the audience.

"We paid attention to the question of 'How would a kid make it?' And obviously we took some license with it. We also wanted a design that would make the body longer and more lithe, more of an acrobat, someone incredibly agile, and the legs of the spider [symbol on the chest] were something we used to emphasize that. We made a bunch of different suits for different lighting conditions. I wanted something that worked in the night a little better. We paid attention to that and also made the webbing [on the costume] a little bit darker. With the costume and the web-shooters we wanted to emphasize that these are things that Peter Parker made and that he is special himself even if he feels like he’s an outsider."

Do note that the film is now in production and is being shot entirely in 3D. The Amazing Spider-Man will only be in theatres 5 July 2012 and there is at least 11 months to go. For now, you can watch its trailer below, or view more of its Movie Stills.

For more on Webb’s thoughts on Peter Parker, read the extensive Hero Complex Q&A with Marc Webb.

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'The Amazing Spider-Man' director: Why the web shooters are back