Meet the New Spider-Man Director - Daily Beast
“I still don’t quite believe it,” says Jon Watts, the 34-year-old director who was plucked from the indie world this summer and handed the reins to Sony and Marvel’s upcoming Spider-Man re-reboot. Watts is about to take his sophomore flick to Montreal’s Fantasia Fest and to its premiere in his hometown, where he filmed it with a crew of friends, before it hits theaters in August. It was Cop Car , Watts surmises, that got him the career-making Spider-Man gig after Marvel head Kevin Feige caught the film. Born and raised in Colorado and film-schooled at NYU, Watts became the latest neophyte helmer to jump to the big blockbuster leagues following the likes of Marc Webb ( The Amazing Spider-Man ), Colin Trevorrow ( Jurassic World ), Gareth Edwards (... Around the time Watts was sealing the biggest deal of his professional career, Sony and Marvel anointed Brit Tom Holland its new Spider-Man. After cameoing in Captain America: Civil War , Holland will star for Watts in a stand-alone already dated for July 28, 2017. “The thing that everyone keeps saying is that it’s sort of like the John Hughes version of Spider-Man, which I think is a... Source: www.thedailybeast.com
