Earlier today I got to sit down with screenwriter Steve Kloves for an extended video interview.
Hit the jump for more.
And to make it nice and easy, I made a list.
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So here’s eight things I learned followed by a lot of quotes from the interview.
If you’ve been looking forward to theSpider-Manreboot, it’s worth watching.
Again, look for the full conversation in a few days.
Oh…and one last thing…the finalHarry Pottermovie was everything I hoped it would be and more.
Get ready to cry in the theater.
The video is further down the page.
Steve Kloves
:18 - Was he hesitant to get involved withThe Amazing Spider-Man?
I still dont know why I did it.
I mean if you watch the first one, you see Alvin all over it.
So that was my hand in it.
And I did a little plot work, but a lot of the plot was done.
2:04 - Talks about how theyre approaching the reinvention ofSpider-Man.
I think its really their game, but you actually hit on something that was my concern.
I said, I cant do shazam!
dialogue, thats not what I do.
I couldnt have done those movies.
A lot of humor, but naturalistic humor, not jokes.
But really trying to make them seem like real characters.
I wouldnt have done it if they wanted me to do, Hey look in the sky!
I dont know how to do that, I cant do that.
So I have some hopes for it.
5:03 - He talks about the mechanical webshooters
There was a reason for it.
It was about an organic thing versus a mechanicalmaking it.
Why do I have to do this?
But I wrote some actually cool stuff for that, and I think Marks gonna do it.
Mark had really good ideas too, he has some really cool ideas.
6:26 - Talks about 3D
Mark was really, really schooling himself in the 3D of it all.
He wanted to really shoot the movie in sort of pure 3D.
I think he wanted to try and do it in a very sophisticated way.
Marks a really smart guy, hes a good guy, and he was really earnest about it.
I have no question he was doing it for the right reasons.
Here’s what he said aboutThe Amazing Spider-Man.
Look for the full interview in the next few days.
