Marc Webb Gave Jon Watts Priceless Spider-Man Advice

Jon Watts is the third director to be tasked with bringing Marvel’s Spider-Man to the big screen, and he happens to know the man who preceded him.

Watts and Marc Webb, the director of The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel, both come from the world of music videos. When Watts got the job on Spider-Man: Homecoming, Webb reached out and offered some choice advice.

“He emailed me,” Watts tells Den of Geek, “and he said ‘I’m not gonna tell you anything, I’m just gonna say: make sure you get to hang out with Stan Lee.’”

Sounds like a solid enough piece of advice. Did Watts follow through?

“I did,” he says. “I did, and it was great. It was great advice.”

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In Spider-Man: Homecoming, thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, young Peter Parker returns home to live with his Aunt May. Under the watchful eye of mentor Tony Stark, Parker starts to embrace his newfound identity as Spider-Man. He also tries to return to his normal daily routine — distracted by thoughts of proving himself to be more than just a friendly neighborhood superhero. Peter must soon put his powers to the test when the evil Vulture emerges to threaten everything that he holds dear.

Spider-Man: Homecoming will be the first Spider-Man movie produced jointly by Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures since both studios reached an agreement to work together on the character’s films. Holland debuted in the role of Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War, where he was recruited by Tony Stark onto Team Iron Man to take on Team Captain America.

Filming for Spider-Man: Homecoming began in June 2016 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Georgia. There were also on location shoots in an Atlanta high school, a hotel, and Atlanta’s West End. Some filming did take place in New York City, where the film wrapped production in October 2016.

Spider-Man: Homecoming is directed by Jon Watts, from a screenplay by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, Watts and Christopher Ford, and Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. Spider-Man: Homecoming stars Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Donald Glover, Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tyne Daly, Marisa Tomei, and Robert Downey Jr.

Spider-Man: Homecoming opens in theaters on July 7, 2017.

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