Variety<\/a>, Watts was asked whether he’s spoken with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton about next July’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day. It’s\u00a0the first Spidey movie since 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 that he won’t be behind the camera for.\u00a0<\/p>\n“We talked a little bit at the very, very beginning, but I\u2019m very close to that franchise, so I just had to step back and let everyone do their job,” Watts\u00a0shared. “It\u2019s going to be genuinely weird for me going to see that movie for the first time. It\u2019s going to be a really interesting feeling. It\u2019s a passing of the torch and I\u2019m curious to see where it goes.”<\/p>\n
As for whether he’d like to return to the superhero genre after walking away from The\u00a0Fantastic Four: First Steps, Watts said, “I\u2019m open to anything and everything. I\u2019m not limiting myself in that way. I\u2019m most attracted to original ideas. That\u2019s sort of like the North Star for me \u2014 big, original ideas. But there are so many great things already out there that I think you can find a way to make it your own and to make it feel original.”<\/p>\n
The trade pushed him on whether there’s a specific character or franchise he has his eye on, prompting Watts to respond, “Yeah, but I wouldn\u2019t want to say. I know what it\u2019s like to be on the receiving end of getting a bunch of emails as a producer, saying, ‘Did you see the thing that Jon Watts said about how he wants to do this?’\u00a0They\u2019re busy enough as it is.”<\/p>\n
“My friend Jake Schreier is doing ‘X-Men,’\u00a0though, which is really exciting,” he said of his old college roommate. “I loved the ‘X-Men’\u00a0growing up, but it\u2019s fun to just be a fan on the sidelines again.”<\/p>\n
Watts has been keeping busy since bidding farewell to the MCU, with Star Wars TV series Skeleton Crew proving a hit with fans and critics on Disney+ last year. While Lucasfilm hasn’t renewed the series, does he expect to make Season 2?\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I mean, I love ‘Star Wars.’\u00a0I\u2019d love to do anything in the ‘Star Wars’\u00a0universe and I think we set it up in a way where the story can continue in a lot of interesting ways,” Watts teased.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Which Marvel character do you think the filmmaker would be a good fit for after he helmed the MCU’s Spider-Man trilogy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following Tom Holland’s introduction as Peter Parker in Captain America: Civil War, it was down to Jon Watts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,127202,337,26766],"class_list":["post-278968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-jon-watts","tag-movies","tag-spider-man-brand-new-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}