Perhaps the most interesting thing about the resume of new Spider-Man director Jon Watts isn’t the Eli Roth-produced Clown, despite the amount of attention that credit has received on social media. Instead, it just might be how funny it all is. This is important, given that Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has previously suggested that movie audiences haven’t had a chance to experience how funny Spider-Man is in his core comic book incarnation. Does this mean that audiences can expect the new Spider-Man movie to be a comedy? Given the tragic overtones of Marc Webb’s Amazing Spider-Man movies, it would seem a smart move, differentiating itself from what went before while matching the successful appeal of Marvel’s own Guardians of the Galaxy
