I was reading an article on Comicbook.com and they were talking about how Marvel tries to keep all of their properties fresh by giving each one of them their own "genres" to work with. They pointed out how Ant-Man was a heist movie, Captain America dealt with espionage, and Guardians of the Galaxy was a space opera. So where will Spider-Man fall and into which category? According to their writers, it will be an action and "John Hughes style" of comedy. Color me intrigued! So how do you get that particular feel for a movie? You go to the writers that just finished the reboot of Hughes' Vacation, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Here's what they said about the whole thing in an interview with Deadline:
"Our agent helped get our foot in the door with Marvel, sending them a script we had written, and letting them know our track record and that we'd love to move from broad comedy to action and action comedy. Also, it helped that Kevin Feige wanted to draw on the spirit of John Hughes for this Spider-Man, and we had just written and directed a sequel to a John Hughes-created franchise with Vacation. We'd pitched ourselves to both write and direct, and so our pitch included a pretty extensive story outline that appealed to them. After Jon Watts got the directing job, they came back and asked if we would be interested in doing the script. The answer was, yes."
After explaining that they are currently in the early stages of writing the script, they continued:
"Lot of specifics still have to be worked out, and we'll be sitting with Jon Watts to figure it out, shortly. We definitely were attracted to approaching it from the standpoint of a real kid, a high school geek who, just because he gets super powers he doesn't really want, doesn't become a superhero right away. It's a long journey. You don't want him to become someone capable of saving the world by the second act. There is a wish fulfillment opportunity here in that few superheroes are given powers like this, and then has to navigate how to use them in a responsible way. Peter Parker is a geek, like us, and one of the very few superheroes who would actually read comic books. Stan Lee has said he wrote it that way, with wish fulfillment in mind, where most superheroes are very handsome adults with superpowers. This is a real kid we're talking about."
Marvel's Spider-Man movie is scheduled for release on July 28, 2017, but you'll be able to see his first appearance into the MCU in Captain America: Civil War on May 6, 2016.
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