Jon Watts, director of "Cop Car" landed the highly coveted job of directing the rebooted "Spider-Man" film, which would star Tom Holland as the new Peter Parker and Marisa Tomei as lovable Aunt May.
The director believes that casting Holland as the teenage web-slinging hero is just "perfect," and he cannot wait to start working on the film. He loves the fact that the rebooted film is going back to the beginning and features a more youthful superhero.
"He can be a real high school student. That's why people love Spider-Man. He's the most grounded, relatable of superheroes. And Tom can really do that. He captures that. And he can do a standing back-flip. He's perfect," he told Entertainment Weekly.
Holland's Spider-Man will be making his first appearance in the 2016 Marvel film "Captain America: Civil War," and Watts actually has a role to play in it too.
"I mean, it's a big universe, so everyone sort of works with each other to make sure that there's continuity and that it all fits together. It's really exciting actually. We're just getting started, working on the script and all that, but it's going to be a great process," he said.
Watts feels very fortunate that out of the many movies he wants to do in his lifetime, he got to include "Spider-Man" and check it off his list. "That's how I think of it. I still have a lot of ideas I want to make, in addition to this, and I don't think it's a one-way path in that sense," he shared.
Watts also revealed that he has a lot to thank his movie "Cop Car" for in landing the "Spider-Man" gig, because Marvel execs saw it in the Sundance Film Festival and decided they liked his creative vision.
"I'm not really sure what happened. I had never been to Sundance before. I was nervous because that was the first time we were showing the movie to an actual crowd. So I was dealing with that," he recalled. I mean, Sundance is like a genre. But Marvel got to see 'Cop Car'and they really liked it. But yeah, this trend is interesting."
Now, Watts said, he has been given the opportunity to make a slightly more expensive version of his movie through "Spider-Man," and he describes it as "a much bigger canvas" that he can have fun with instead of "just scrapping together any story you can."
