Warning: Spoilers for Spider-Man: Homecoming are discussed in this intro and interview.
For more on the film,read Matt Goldbergs review.
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Trust me, there is no way you seeSpider-Man: Homecomingand walk out disappointed.
Check out what Jon Watts had to say below.
JON WATTS: Thank you.
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WATTS: Yeah, did you?
Yeah, it’s so great.
WATTS: Are you a Spider-Man fan?
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I am, yeah.
I had a very good time with this film.
WATTS: That’s a good question.
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Well, the first thing that you learn is…
Okay, that is gonna work.
He didThor, too, I think.
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The biggest thing in the director’s screening was just, “Oh.
People like the tone.
People like the humor.”
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Who did you have in that first screening?
And the film’s not substantially different from the director’s cut, honestly.
Like, I’ve never been able to do this before.
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Well, you had a little more money to spend.
WATTS: Yeah, and being able to have a captive audience to try different things out on.
It’s like building a ride.
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How long was your first cut compared to the finished film?
WATTS: I think my first cut was a little bit shorter than the finished film.
Oh, so they said to you, “you better add back to it.”
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As opposed to it being just everything.
Obviously fans love seeing extras, so did you have a lot of deleted scenes or no?
There’s very few deleted scenes.
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He’s so awesome.
Wait, so is that like a whole thing on the Blu-ray?
What is it exactly?
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Do you have like a separate movie almost of him?
It unintentionally led to it being its own little short film.
That sounds awesome just because he’s so great in the movie.
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WATTS: He’s so great.
Getting back to my thing-
WATTS: Sorry, it’s a total tangent.
I loved his character.
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Do you think it’s like three to five minutes of deleted scenes or more?
WATTS: Let me think.
That’s probably like five minutes.
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There’s more Captain America videos than what you see in the movie…
So we have a lot more of those.
There’s an extended Donald Glover scene, which is nice, people will like that.
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Yeah, there should be quite a bit.
WATTS: So many.
I think we had a teleprompter actually, so he was just…
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It’s was like Captain America just showed up and had to do this stuff for the government.
Right, it’s great.
I love it so much.
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WATTS: I was worried that people would be mad.
No, everyone’s laughing.
WATTS: Okay good.
I wanted to know, did you always think that that one was gonna be-
WATTS: No.
WATTS: Late in the process.
I was mainly focused on the movie.
I remember making it up on set too.
I don’t want to give that away, but-
It’s all right.
I’m gonna run some of this after release.
It was just kind of an in the moment joke thing that ended up working really well.
Do you have-
WATTS: Yeah, at least.
So it’s a lot.
WATTS: I think… Yeah, it’s like it’s clicking through a DVD.
Oh, I get it.
And you’re saying that’s like five, ten minutes?
WATTS: I think that one’s probably…
They’re just little snip-its, so that’s probably a couple minutes.
Yeah, I’m all in on that.
WATTS: Oh, and we also have… We also have so much more of Peter’s behind the scene’s footage.
Oh, from the camera stuff.
Is that a whole separate, nother, short film punch in thing?
WATTS: It’s more just like the extended … His extended day and night in Germany.
And that’s like another bit on the Blu-ray.
That also played like gang busters.
WATTS: I don’t think we talk about anything until after the movie comes out.
And I’m like, “Okay.”
WATTS: I’ll wait for them to ask me.
WATTS: I think everyone’s on the same page.
Well, that was what I was gonna say, it’s like… WATTS: That’s one idea for sure.
I think that would be great.
I do, too.
Like, really let that be complicated and grow Peter to be the best superhero of all time.
I need to figure out what happens inInfinity War, that’d probably be the first thing.
Doesn’t that sort of energize you on a whole nother level?
WATTS: It’s a huge relief.
Oh, so it’s not even energizing, it’s just relief.
Right now it just feels like a long exhale.
You hope it works.
I was saying before, it’s like building a ride.
You hope people enjoy the ride and don’t throw up or get hurt.
Was it always the intention for that to happen or was that a debated scene?
WATTS: No, that was always the intention, weirdly.
Like, I don’t know why…
Yes, that’s true.
WATTS: “And it’s gonna be a complicated thing to deal with.
“Like, are we really just gonna have him tell everyone?”
It was like, “I guess so.”
I don’t know.
To me at least, it was just about making this movie be as good as possible.
If the world ended tomorrow, this would be a great, satisfying movie.
One of the things this movie does not have is Spider-Man having a spider sense.
WATTS: Yeah, possibly.
But is that also like a power that also in essence doesn’t make sense?
Like, him having the spider sense is… Do you know what I mean?
‘Cause it’s more realistic for him not to have that.
And that could be … WATTS: Yeah, ‘cause you don’t have to do it all in the first act.
