TASM: Marc Webb Reveals Why He Went With The Snoutless Lizard

Thursday, 03 May 2012 17:12

Collider have just posted a lengthy interview with The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb, in which he discusses many aspects of the movie - including casting, special effects, and the new trailer. But what caught my eye was the excerpt below, as Webb reveals the reasons behind the particular look he went with for the villain of the movie, The Lizard.. There’s a lot that goes into it. When we shot those sequences, we actually shot a human. There was a guy named Big John, who is literally this big guy named John, who did a lot of the interactive stuff. When you’re trying to interact with Peter [Parker], you need someone grabbing him and to do those things, and then we would replace him with the computer-generated lizard. But then, the performance capture was done with Rhys [Ifans]. We would shoot Rhys in a similar environment