David Koepp to take first shot at SPIDER-MAN script

According to this morning's Hollywood Reporter it seems that oft-genre film related screenwriter David Koepp will be the first (of what I predict to be many) screenwriter(s) to weave a draft of the SPIDER-MAN script. According to the article, the plan is to draw upon Cameron's scriptment... but really... who knows how close it'll be right? Sony also said according to THR that several top helmers have expressed interest in this project.

Now I'm positive that in TALK BACK below everyone will have their own specific opinions on who should direct this film. (Not to mention what I imagine will be a strongly negative anti-Koepp sentiment) Well... Cause I can... I'm going to put up my weirdo opinion of who should direct SPIDER-MAN.

The first choice I have would be amazing in my opinion. And I truly think he could make not only a great SPIDER-MAN movie, but a GREAT movie out of this character.. and that's Martin Scorsese... WHAT!?!?!?!

Well, ya see... it's like this. We all know he has the skills to make the film, but what makes me feel he is absolutely perfect for the movie is his personal background. Who Martin Scorsese is and was. You see... Marty grew up in SPIDER-MAN's neighborhood. He was the scrawny puny Parker growing up, trying to find the right group to be a part of. Always a bit concerned about the good groups and the bad ones. He dealt with his Flash's... He had his camera, and he escaped through church and the local movie theater... the two places he felt safe. Now... I'm willing to bet that ol Scorsese could postulate real real good... what motivates Parker. Now I don't know this, but I'd be willing to bet that when Parker was a kid and his Aunt and Uncle took him to the flickers he saw Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, etc. And when he got those powers of his... that's where the cockiness and spirit of adventure came from... but he still had all those teenage doubts.

Plus... Imagine if they set this as a period piece in the early sixties New York.... The New York that Ditko drew, the New York that Scorsese knows so well. It'd be fantastic, it could be soooooo much more layered than just a 'comic book movie'. I know... I know... it's a wet dream of a obese Texas fanboy... but dammit... I know damn good and well he'd make a great film out of it, and it'd be something we'd never have seen from him. A Scorsese adventure film... his Fairbanks movie, his Flynn... Ahhhhh... to dream of what could be in an idyllic universe.

However, if ya just want visceral coolness George Miller or the Wachowski Bros. wouldn't be tooooo awful. And I've heard rumors that Sam Raimi loves the comic book.... he'd rock. :) But... Gosh SCORSESE would be soooooo cool. I mean... who the hell thought that Mario Puzo would write the first SUPERMAN movie? Right?