How Can Hollywood Save 'Spider-Man' Movie Franchise? Screenwriter David Koepp Shares Ideas To Make Series 'Amazing'

While there are some arguments to be made for the recent Amazing Spider-Man film franchise in terms of box office success, we understand that it isn't exactly going to plan. Also, Spider-Man 3 from the Tobey Maguire film franchise was too good either, leading to the Andrew Garfield reboots. So what can be done with one of the most successful comic books in history that doesn't seem to get a good run of film adaptations? According to 2002's Spider-Man screenwriter, David Koepp, there is a way to save the big screen version of the character.

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Whether you like the two franchises based on the "friendly neighborhood Spider-Man," they've both fallen short. Koepp believes he has a theoretical idea to "save" the character, though.

In a new interview with Empire, the writer of arguably the best film based on the character (Spider-Man 2 was pretty great, though), opened up about how difficult it is to adapt this character and story, and shared a theory on how to execute the next film(s) properly.

"When I was doing Spider-Man the first time, I remember distinctly having thoughts about three movies, each of a different kind. The way the comic-book lines switched, it was Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man... there were a number of them," Koepp told Empire, according to Gamma Squad. "So rather than try to pursue the same course, or any kind of similar tone, you'd have strikingly different tones. The classic Spider-Man, that would be the top-of-the-line, studio Sam Raimi ones, then the Amazing Spider-Man ones, they'd be done for $75-80 million, and have a rougher, edgier, almost R-rated feel to them - if not R-rated, though I don't think they could ever bring themselves to do that. Tougher, nastier, a rougher look... shorter movies. I don't like superhero bloat, personally."

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So it looks like Koepp's theory involved looking at the character from different views and exploring each on the big-screen. What do you think of his ideas? Let us know in the comments section below!