Henson (“Hidden Figures”) is only just now headlining her first big-screen comedy, but here we are. Because of course he was.It’s hard to believe that after more than 20 years in Hollywood, Taraji P. It’s also very funny to hear Cameron, who fetishizes machinery in nearly every one of his films, talk about how interested he was in the suit. I think it would have been a fun film to make.” That sounds awesome. I wanted to ground it in reality and ground it in universal human experience. He turns into this kid with these powers and he has this fantasy of being Spider-Man, and he makes this suit and it’s terrible, and then he has to improve the suit, and his big problem is the damn suit. Or Superman and the Daily Planet and all that sort of thing, where it always felt very kind of metaphorical and fairytale-like,” Cameron told Screen Crush.

So you’re in a real world, you’re not in some mythical Gotham City.

“Superheroes in general always came off as kind of fanciful to me, and I wanted to do something that would have been more in the vein of ‘Terminator’ and ‘Aliens,’ that you buy into the reality right away. “I wanted to make something that had a kind of gritty reality to it,” he noted. Stan Lee also championed the idea.Īs for his overall vision for the project, he shared that too. “Going with the biological web shooters as being part of his biological adaptation to the radioactive spider bite made sense to me,” Cameron said. He’s kind of geeky and nobody notices him and he’s socially unpopular and all that stuff.” Cameron saw the film as “a metaphor for puberty and all the changes to your body, your anxieties about society, about society’s expectations, your relationships with your gender of choice that you’re attracted to, all those things.”Īnd what came out of this approach was one of the few things adopted by the eventual Sam Raimi-led version of the property – organic web-shooters. He goes by Spider-Man, but he’s not Spider-Man. ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home': Jamie Foxx Is Really Happy He Won’t Be Blue Again as Electro (Video)Ĭameron told Screen Rant, as part of a roundtable promoting the book, that his version was going to be “very different.” “The first thing you’ve got to get your mind around,” Cameron told Screen Crush, “is it’s not Spider-Man.

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