One of my favorite things about ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’, besides Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone’s performances, was the direction by Marc Webb. For the first time in a superhero flick (excluding Christopher Nolan, of course, but his Batman franchise feels like it’s only incidentally a superhero movie, it’s so different) a filmmaker put a higher emphasis on character as opposed to action. This was really ‘(500) Days of Spidey’, and I really appreciated that. He handled the action just fine, but he shined with the characters. With a sequel inevitable and in fact scheduled already for release in May 2014, complete with writers (Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are rewriting the script by James Vanderbilt, who co-wrote this last one) and all, it’s not unreasonable to consider who will be directing the flick. I’d love to see Webb do it, but it’s certainly not a forgone conclusion that he will, and in fact, it may be more likely that he doesn’t. After the jump I’ll weigh the pros and cons of him doing it, as well as suggest a few possible replacements for the chair.
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