Spider-Man: Homecoming Director on His Favorite Game and R-rated Superhero Movies

The PlayStation Blog caught up with Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts to talk shop for a little bit. The interview is mainly about the web-slingers latest outing, which is phenomenal by the way (read the comicbook review right here), but Watts did speak a little to what video game he’s been loving lately. To our surprise, Watts didn’t take that opportunity to spin his love for a Spider-Man game or Insomniac game. Instead, he’s getting all philosophical with a quirky indie:

“I’m so behind right now,” he says. “That game Everything. That one’s great. I love it when a game changes your expectations about what a game can be. I love that game.” I felt personally vindicated when I read that, because I absolutely adored Everything. It’s a fantastic game that will make you think about, well, everything. It’s highly experimental and philosophical, and features extensive narration from 20th century zen philosopher Alan Watts.

In the midst of all the Homecoming shop talk, Jon Watts was also asked what he thought about the recent success of R-rated comic book movies like Logan and Deadpool. Watts is all for it, and loves thinks that it will provide a huge opportunity for some of the darker stories we’ve read in comics and graphic novels over the decades to finally get the big-screen TLC that the deserve:

“I don’t think people now think of comic-book movies as being a genre,” he said. “I think audiences have become more comfortable with something that may have originated as a comic-book character — and not having it be a poppy, vibrant story. People who read lots of comics aren’t surprised by this, but not everybody has grown up reading them.

“So for the moviegoing public to be much more comfortable with these stories is great, because it opens the doors to a much bigger world of storytelling.”

The rest of the interview is worth checking out. It’s hilarious how transparently out of touched and removed from the world Watts has become as he slaved away on Homecoming leading up to its release. He also opens up a bit about how things have changed since the original Spider-Man debuted in 2002, and how the shared MCU has evolved.

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