Marc Webb Director Of 500 Days Of Summer Frontrunner For Spiderman Reboot + Interview
Deadline.com have reported that Marc Webb is at the top of Sony’s list for the new Spiderman reboot (after the cancellation of Spiderman 4), “Webb met about the Spidey reboot with the pic’s producers and executives looking to get the picture into production later this year for a Summer 2012 release.”
I don’t usually cover much rumours and speculation but this has interested me and also given me the opportunity to unleash my Marc Webb interview I done while he was promoting (500) Days Of Summer last year 
. I was a big fan of (500) Days Of Summer, I usually HATE ‘romantic comedies’ but that was the most honest film you could put in that category in years. It looks like Sony loved it as well, in the deadline article they say Sony wants “a director with a grasp of how to depict the way young people think and feel. This is critical because the Jamie Vanderbilt script covers the formative years of a high school-aged Peter Parker, and that POV is as important as the action sequences.” Check out my interview below and for more details on the Spiderman reboot check out deadline.com
Its very rare to have a romantic comedy men actually like and one from a guys point if view
Marc Webb: (Laughs) Thanks, to me it was less about the guys point of view, it was more of a persons point of view, a lot of times with these sort of films they show both points of view. It was more of his naïve approach to love, maybe its not as sophisticated as it should be and there’s a consequence to that, that’s what I identified with, there was a time in my life, when I was very much in his shoes (laughs)
I think that’s why a lot of guys seem to be relating to it, how important was it to get someone like Joey for the part because he is perfect?
Marc Webb: I met with a lot of actors, but he was the first one to get underneath it, the first time I met him, he asked why am I making this movie, and nobody had asked me that question before, I thought that’s a simple stupidly obvious question that’s great. We had a really good discussion that most of the films involved in romance have false hopes of love, especially for guys, who are often the sub plot, like with Hitch for example, there’s some really interesting things Will Smith is saying in the film and his charisma carries it, but the message if you wax your back and you learn to dance your gonna marry a super model, is fucking bullshit (laughs) its very reductive and hurtful, its very seductive to look like that but it’s false, so we wanted to play with a character that thought them sort of things and we had to subvert those things but without being cynical.
The films very honest.
Marc Webb: Yeah but I do know people who have actually found their girlfriend in High School when they were 17, I can think of three examples, they probably wouldn’t get the film so much. It probably wasn’t as emotionally resonate with them. But god bless them if their that lucky (laughs)
The chemistry was very strong between Zooey and Joseph how did you know they would hit it off so well?
Marc Webb: I wasn’t a hundred percent sure they would be great, we didn’t read them together, but I had seen them in Manic together, I met Joey and we were talking about who should play Summer, he said a couple people then he had a look in his eye and said Zooey, she’s got this energy, I knew through the look in his eye I could hang the movie on that. He got depressed though and said nobody will make a film with just us two because we’re not big enough stars, but one of the benefits of doing a film with such a small budget is that you don’t have to stuff a star into it. They’ve known each other and they respect each other which was so important, the engine of these sort of movies is the characters chemistry. They are great actors, Joey uses his physicality so well, we took away lines from the film while editing just because his body said all that needed to be said
(500) Days Of Summer is very unconventional, you know people love to categorise everything, how would you categorise it?
Marc Webb: The best way of categorising it is as a coming of age story masquerading as a romantic comedy, a love story implies certain things we wanted to side step. The same piece of information can look very different to someone else, like in The Graduate.
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