What THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Director Thinks About The New Trailer For THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

In the morning after the new trailer for THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN hit the web, I contacted my go-to comic book geek buddy, David Lee to ask if he’d be kind enough to share with us his thought on the trailer, David is a true Spidey fan, so I can’t wait for his editorial piece. I personally thought the trailer looked fantastic, it got me all stoked.
But what did the film’s director think about it? Hollywood Reporter asked Webb for his reaction..

“How could you feel anything but good?”
“It was really wonderful; I mean, I enjoyed the events in particular, because it was very affirming. We’ve been working in our secret laboratory for so long that it’s nice to get it out.”

The previous teaser trailer arrived last July during Comic-Con weekend. The new trailer shows more of Peter Parker – Gwen Stacy’s relationship

“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.”

The trailer did go out of its way to tell everybody that this is not Sam Raimi’s Spidey movies.

Webb also talked about the Lizard and the comparison of his version to Raimi’s..

“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 movies.”
“There’s tonal differences, which are a little difficult to express except for in trailer form, or in the film itself, because it’s more of a subjective term. But those are all things that we felt like deserved their day in the sun.”

“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,”
“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.”

Well, Webb!, judging by this new trailer alone, I am so watching this movie when it arrives this summer, hell I’m already forgetting those Raimi’s Spidey movies with lame Dunst as MJ, I’m erasing those from my memory and I’ll be watching THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN fresh.

One of the world’s most popular characters is back on the big screen as a new chapter in the Spider-Man legacy is revealed in “The Amazing Spider-Man.” Focusing on an untold story that tells a different side of the Peter Parker story, the new film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, with Martin Sheen and Sally Field. The film is directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay written by James Vanderbilt, based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad, and Matt Tolmach are producing the film in association with Marvel Entertainment for Columbia Pictures, which will open in theaters everywhere in 3D on July 3, 2012.

“The Amazing Spider-Man” is the story of Peter Parker (Garfield), an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Sheen) and Aunt May (Field). Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Peter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy (Stone), and together, they struggle with love, commitment, and secrets. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Ifans), his father’s former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors’ alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.