Jon Watts was something of an unexpected choice when it came to Marvel and Sony's decision of director for 2017's Spider-Man reboot. In a recent interview with Collider however, Kevin Feige explained both why he's the right man for the job and how the two studios ended up picking him. "It was myself and Amy Pascal and Tom Rothman, and also Jeremy Latchamand Louis D’Esposito at Marvel where involved in that," he revealed. "We met with a lot of people and came down to a couple of very, very, very good finals candidates. Jon just—we really liked his movie Cop Car, we met with him four, five, or six times, and each time he had more and more interesting things to say. And at Marvel, it always comes down to ultimately, “We can make a movie with this person for two years, we could spend almost every day with this person for two years. Let’s go."
We've heard a lot about the screen test Tom Holland did with Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man in Captain America: Civil War) that ultimately helped him land the job, and the site asked the Marvel Studios boss if they used actual dialogue from the movie or if it was something new. "It was a combination, it was mainly written for the screen test though. Which is what we usually do, so if people like you get your hands on them. [They're] usually just bespoke for a test with different names and things. So they call each other different names." As for whether or not it was Holland's chemistry with Downey Jr. which resulted in him being chose, Feige would only say: "That was part of it. When we’ll see that, I don’t know, but that was part of it." What do you guys think?
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