Writer Steve Kloves says when it came to the material for next year’s The Amazing Spider-Man, he was looking for a realistic approach to the reboot, saying that his version of Peter Parker will be more grounded than what we saw in the Sam Raimi trilogy.
“I don’t know how this is gonna turn out, but I wrote this very, very naturalistically,” said Kloves. “A lot of humor, but naturalistic humor, not jokes. But really trying to make them seem like real characters. I think Peter Parker’s a great character, and I certainly think Emma’s character is a fantastic character, Gwen. I wouldn’t have done [the movie] if they wanted me to do, ‘Hey look in the sky!’ I don’t know how to do that, I can’t do that.”
Kloves, who said he won’t write the next “Spider-Man” movies (“I sort of dated it, I don’t wanna marry it,” he insists), added that the Marvel reboot is very distant from the Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire era in terms of content and tone.
“I mean look, you’ve got Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, it’s a really good cast, and I know they want it to be good,” he said. “And it was a real reboot, that’s the other thing, when I came on I said, ‘I don’t wanna ape what Sam and Tobey did,’ and they said ‘No we’re really rebooting it.’ And so that’s when I came in and did what I did, which again was primarily character and dialogue.”
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