MADAME WEB Producer Says Freeing The Film of SPIDER-MAN Connections Allowed Them To "Tell a Pure Story"
The creative team behind Madame Web continues to be in denial of the fact that they made one of the worst comic book movies ever. The way they talk about the movie makes me wonder if they ever actually sat down and watched it.
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura recently opened up about the film and how it was a relief for the creative team to be "freed" from any big connection to Spider-Man. While talking to Collider, the producer addressed the decision to leave Spidey out of the story, saying:
"Before I was involved there was a script, and before S.J. was involved as well. Both of us really saw the advantage in not having the burden of the attachment of all this other stuff that has gone on. You'd be silly to think you don't pay some homage to it and some acknowledgement, which we do, but it really freed us in a way to tell a pure story, I think. And so, for both of us, that allowed us to get into what I love about Dakota's journey."
"It's not just simply, 'Well, I'm gonna stand up and become the hero.' It's, 'I'm scarred. I don't want attachment. I definitely don't want responsibility for these three people. What the hell is happening to me? I'm going insane.' And then, 'What do I do now that I'm in this situation?' So, for me, freeing ourselves from that obligation, in a sense, was very freeing and allowed us to do a more complex ride with the hero."
Yes, it makes sense to free the movie from Spider-Man, I get that. At the same time, there were Spider-Man connections in the film, and the way those details were shoe-horned into this movie was eye-rollingly ridiculous. If you’ve seen the movie, you know what I’m talking about. Honestly, to me, it felt like they really didn’t free the film of Spider-Man. And even if they do feel they did, it certainly didn’t help the story they told or the script that was farted out.
Ugh… this movie actually could’ve been really good! I honestly believe that this could have been a great and unique movie, something to set it apart from all the other superhero movies being made in a good way. Instead, the movie is set apart from all the other superhero movies in the worst way.
It’s said that the early drafts of the script saw Ezekiel Simms planning to kill Mary Parker in an effort to stop Peter Parker from ever being born. The movie still includes Mary in the story pregnant with Peter Parker and even it makes her paramedic brother-in-law, Ben Parker, Cassie's work colleague.
Sony Pictures needs some serious help with their live-action Marvel movies because they have no idea what they are doing over there.