Marc Webb, the director, really wanted to go back to the comic book references and reinterpret more of a classic Spider-Man with a modern slickness to him.
Well, it is an iconic character, and that’s one of the fun things about doing it, trying to reinterpret it in whichever way the filmmaker wants to. But there have been lots of variations over the years, and you’ve also got to take an image that was originally drawn in a comic book and recreate that on an actual person, so how do you tackle that? Obviously, a costume like Spider-Man’s is very iconic and recognisable. So there are lots of different avenues to get very much more of a high tech kind of process. And then using that computer information, you screen-print on fabric.
Well, computers – it’s quite amazing, because in the original Spider-Man movies with Tobey Maguire, the suit’s webbing would have been hand cut, but this was done on a 3D model on the computer to lay out a very precise pattern. What kinds of new technologies did you use?
