Watch Cop Car trailer - the last film by the new Spider-Man director Jon Watts
After an appearance in 2016's Captain America 3, Spidey will be getting his own standalone movie in mid 2017 and we already know who's going to direct it - Jon Watts. He's a small time director working in America on The Onion News show and genre pieces like Clown the insane RoboCop piecemeal remake. And now he's got one of the biggest franchises in the world on his hands.
Bringing indie filmmakers into the fold like this doesn't always work out but Marvel has a history of making unusual choices for their projects, like James Gunn for Ant-Man and even Joss Whedon on The Avengers. They've mostly turned out really well, so we're pretty confident that they've but Watts through some really intense interviews to get him this far. It's also not entirely clear how free these directors are to make their own choices, something which was felt most strongly in Age of Ultron.
