How did Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man end up with mechanical webshooters? Er, because of a vote...
NewsHere's an odd one, and proof if it was needed that there was an element of design by committee about Sony's The Amazing Spider-Man films. Comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis needs little introduction, given his well-known work writing for Marvel over the years. And - given his experienced launching Ultimate Spider-Man - it turns out he's someone who consults on a film or two as well.
In a chat with Yahoo!, Bendis revealed that he was involved in the decision to switch to mechanical web shooters in Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man films, rather than the organic ones Spidey used in Sam Raimi's trilogy of movies.
"They’ve asked me in to be the deciding vote on some stuff, which is an odd experience", he said. So before the Spider-Man movie reboot fully got going, "they sat me down in Amy Pascal’s office with this big roomful of producers and writers and directors, and she looked at me and said 'organic webshooters or mechanical webshooters?' I said 'mechanical', and half the table said, 'goddamn it!'"
He added that "they were mad because I was clearly the deciding vote, even though I didn’t know that. So when I see the mechanical webshooters, I feel a little happiness. I feel like I did something good in the world".
A big roomful of people deciding something like that? It doesn't sound like the most conducive creative environment, really.
The full Yahoo! piece is here.
