Spider-Man: Far From Home Director Talks Marvel's PS4 Game Influences

IGN couldn't help asking director Jon Watts if he was influenced by Insomniac's spin on Spider-Man in any way.

[drpepperdude]

I can tell Spiderboy wasn't influenced by Spider-Man.

[PhoenixUp]

Spider-Man taking that selfie towards the end seemed heavily inspired by the game

[UltraNova]

Tbh, the game was by far the better Spiderman adventure than Far for home. The movie was a boring teenage romance camouflaged like a super hero action adventure. Sam Raimi's trilogy will never be surpassed at this speed. Thankfully a SM: Into the spiderverse sequel is in the making...

[CaptainIronbat]

True. Though I think Martin Li in the game was completely useless.

[ShadowWolf712]

Sam Raimi's trilogy was crap. None of the characters were in-character, Peter acted more like Christopher Reeve's Clark Kent than Peter Parker (with a good dose of George McFly tossed in), the villains were WAY off, MJ had next to no character half the time and was simply used to advance the dramatic subplots, It was full of the WORST kind of cheese that, contrary to popular belief, was NOT in classic Spider-Man comics but rather a generic stereotype of old comics in general and Silver Age DC, particularly Superman...

Frankly, Raimi REALLY wanted to make a Superman sequel more than a Spider-Man movie and it shows, right down to the scene of Peter running and opening his shirt to reveal that emblem.

[jukins]

Lol this dude really said far from home was boring and Sam raimi trilogy will never be surpassed. Lmao. . . . Sam raimi trilogy was surpassed with just the civil war cameo.

[Yourmommasaid]

@ShadowWolf712

I would agree with you on the first movie, while the third is actually forgettable. But Spider-Man 2 of the Raimi universe was actually dope, in which the game kinda mimics in terms of story with Doctor Octopus.

[ShadowWolf712]

@Yourmom

Eh, yes and no. While the game does still retain Octavius in a sort of mentor capacity, it does also still have him much more in character.

Part of that though has to do with Ock's role originally being The Lizard in an earlier draft and the backstory portion only being given slight revisions. Hence the happy, friendly science guy with the wife and advice on how to woo a woman and so on.

Game Octavius is still friendlier but doesn't start making more wisecracks than Spider-Man himself, which is a trait he despised in the comics.

And Honestly, I have a lot of issues with Spider-Man 2 from a lot of angles but... eh.

[rainslacker]

My only problem with Octavius in the game is he didn't really show up until the end. There was almost no build up between him and Spider-man being at odds with one another, other than one was the bad guy, and Spider-Man was the good guy. Doc Oc is one of my favorite comic book villians, and they did his good side well, but fumbled it everywhere else.

As far as Li, the confrontation was again really only because one was the good guy and one was the bad guy. The best villians I think are those that play some sort of counter to the hero, and neither really did that in the game.