As he gears up to go into production on Marvel and Sony’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, director Jon Watts has been talking to The Daily Beast about the hotly-anticipated reboot, and in particular the diversity of its cast.
“Peter Parker goes to high school in Queens, and Queens is one of—if not the—most diverse places in the world,” said Watts, whose previous credits include the Eli Roth-produced horror Clown and last year’s acclaimed thriller Cop Car. “So I just wanted it to reflect what that actually looks like.”
Watts also went on to reveal how they intend on differentiating the film from the five previous Spider-Man movies:
“It’s been really fun to just look for things that none of the other Spider-Man movies have really explored before, and decide if that’s something we want to work into that. And really making it a high school movie, and committing to that, and not having that just be the beginning of the movie. The John Hughes sort of tone. When you’re looking at it through that prism, it really opens up the door to a lot of possibilities.”
Spider-Man: Homecoming is being directed by Jon Watts (Cop Car) and sees Tom Holland and Marisa Tomei reprising their roles from Captain America: Civil War as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Aunt May. They’ll be joined by Marvel regular Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, alongside Michael Keaton (Birdman), Michael Barbieri (Little Men), Zendaya (K.C. Undercover), Tony Revolori (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus), Martin Starr (Silicon Valley), Donald Glover (Community), Laura Harrier (One Life to Live) and Kenneth Choi (Captain America: The First Avenger). It is set for release on July 7th 2017.
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