'Amazing Spider-Man 2' Director Marc Webb Opens Up About Future of Spidey Franchise
The Amazing Spider-Man franchise director Marc Webb recently sat down with The Daily Beast to discuss the latest installment in the Spider-Man cinematic universe, future endeavors and his growing success in the film industry.
The A-list filmmaker, who achieved such status with the Amazing Spider-Man in 2012, grew up as music video director and documenter for bands such as No Doubt, AFI and My Chemical Romance. He's a huge fan of the South by Southwest Festival, which is where Webb's interview took place.
He first gained some Hollywood notoriety with his South by Southwest hit (500) Days of Summer in 2009.
Although he has become a comic book fanboy favorite and is sure to push the envelope of comic book films with The Amazing Spider-Man 2 hitting theaters this summer, Webb told the publication that after completing one more Spidey film, he's calling it quits for the franchise.
Sony Pictures already has plans to continue the franchise into four films along with two spin-offs featuring villainous Spider-Man foes Venom and the Sinister Six, but Webb by then it'll be time to move on.
"I'd like to be involved as a consultant, and I've already talked to these guys about it, but in terms of directing it, that will close out my tenure," the 39-year-old director said. "I've had so much fun doing it, but after the third movie, it'll be the time to find something else."
In the interview, Webb recalls being intimidated with taking on and rebooting the franchise considering there was already Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man franchise in the early 2000s.
"But my love of Spider-Man and my pure, unadulterated curiosity of what that experience was going to be like overwhelmed that," Webb said. "It just seemed like fun. I seemed to have hit it off with the studio and the producers, and I felt encourage, and enabled."
While Webb teased that audiences may see glimpses of Dane DeHaan's Harry Osborne turning into the Green Goblin following his father Norman Osborne's footsteps, he would not confirm the identity of Felicity Jone's character in the film.
"She plays somebody who works in OsCorp ... and that's all I'm going to say about that!" Webb said, later adding, "There will be some 'creature of the night' popping up," in regards to Harry Osborne.
Comic geeks unfortunately will not witness a merger between studios where Spider-Man and the Avengers can team-up like they do in the ethos any time soon, Webb said.
"We're building out a more complicated Spider-Man universe with characters that people haven't seen in other Spider-Man movies," Webb boasts. "We'd all love to overlap with other studios, but it's beyond my pay grade."
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