It seems like only yesterday comic book fans were all excited about the very first Spider-Man movie — Sam Raimi's 2002 take on the webslinging superhero, starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. With Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone stepping in to lead Marc Webb's high school-set The Amazing Spider-Man, a lot of people are wondering if the reboot is any different at all. Time will tell if fans decide Amazing is better or worse, or maybe just the same as Raimi's Spider-Man — but looking back on interviews from 2002's Spider-Man junket, it turned out some of the exact same questions were asked of both sets of directors and stars.
If you?re not sure whether The Amazing Spider-Man is a fresh take on the Marvel superhero tale you've seen before, see if the filmmakers? answers to the same questions convince you. (Boy, Kirsten Dunst sounded so young back then!)
Directors Sam Raimi and Marc Webb were both asked: How did you approach the humorous/wisecracking side of Spider-Man?
Sam Raimi: It?s just like if you go to tell a joke that you heard or if you read 40 years of Spider-Man comic books and now it?s your turn to tell the Spider-Man origin story, if you said, ?Well, there was this radioactive spider that bit this kid,? if that?s how you chose to tell it, you?d be telling it a very different way than I would tell it. I would have to start with who the kid was, what his problems are and what things meant to him. So, I understood what the transformation meant to him. I think everybody just tells it differently and I didn?t have a good plan for how I was going to tell it.…
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