'Amazing Spider-Man' Director Talks Trailer, Creating The Lizard

Unless you've been living under a rock, you saw the Amazing Spider-Man trailer yesterday, and I have to admit it looked pretty awesome.  I was sad to see Sam Raimi's series end the way it did, but I'm starting to hope that Marc Webb's series might be good enough to replace it.  Webb recently spoke with MovieWeb, talking about the trailer, and what kind of work went into creating the Lizard transformation that I'm certainly no big fan of.

"There's narrative differences, like the Gwen Stacy saga is something from the comics that I've always really, really loved. There's what happened to his parents, which is a huge thing. But there's the villain, Dr. Connors and The Lizard, which never came to fruition in the [other} movies...We spent a lot of time thinking about the biology of a lizard, and how his muscles work, and there's an entire staff of people dedicated to making him look lifelike," Webb said. "It is an extraordinary task, and very, very difficult. It takes a lot of time, which a lot of people in this room can attest to."

I've been pretty vocal about my dislike of the look, but it's good to see that Webb and actor Ryhs Ifans are taking the part seriously, and I reserve ultimate judgement for until I see the final film.

About the teaser, he said,

"People don't know what to expect, and I think it's really important for us to establish exactly why we believe it's an important thing to do. We felt it was really important to give the audience a more specific idea of what the film would look like. When you do a teaser trailer it's always tricky, because we were still shooting the movie when that was being cut. This time we wanted to show Peter and Gwen a little bit more. To get to know more of the characterization, and a lot of the visual effects stuff that we've been working on, just to display the attitude of the film that we're trying to create."

Well, he certainly delivered what he was setting out to do, as it's the first thing I've seen of the project that actually makes me interested in it.  How are you guys feeling about it at this point?

Comments

[John (Wisconsin)]

Can't wait, trailer got my buy in.