SPIDER-MAN Writers Disclose How They Landed the Job With Marvel Studios and Sony



Yesterday, 'Vacation' screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein revealed they are writing the Marvel Studios and Sony co-produced SPIDER-MAN movie. Today, they spoke with Deadline and Goldstein revealed a little snippet of how they landed the gig.

"Our agent helped get our foot in the door with Marvel, sending them a script we had written, and letting them know our track record and that we’d love to move from broad comedy to action and action comedy. Also, it helped that Kevin Feige wanted to draw on the spirit of John Hughes for this Spider-Man, and we had just written and directed a sequel to a John Hughes-created franchise with Vacation."

Goldstein continued to talk about how they were interested in directing the next SPIDER-MAN movie too but when it went to Jon Watts they were happy to still come onboard to write it.

"We’d pitched ourselves to both write and direct, and so our pitch included a pretty extensive story outline that appealed to them. After Jon Watts got the directing job, they came back and asked if we would be interested in doing the script. The answer was, yes."

Starring actor Tom Holland, the still untitled SPIDER-MAN movie begins filming in summer 2016 and releases on July 28, 2017.