Spider-Man: Homecoming Pitch Meeting

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**Spider-Man: Homecoming Pitch Meeting** is the fifth episode of the Pitch Meeting series on Screen Rant. It is also the second Marvel movie to have a Pitch Meeting episode made about it, as well as being the first Spider-man movie to be the focus.

## Description

Spider-Man: Homecoming took theatres by storm and introduced the web-slinger to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But any movie franchise that's on its third reboot in less than 20 years is bound to receive some criticism from fans. We appreciate the different angle Marvel Studios took with Homecoming, but there are still many part so [sic] this movie that we just can't help but poke fun at.

## Cast

* Producer Guy - Ryan George
* Screenwriter Guy - Ryan George

## Quotes

* "We're also gonna do the Jesus thing from Spider-man 2" - Screenwriter Guy

## Notices

* Screenwriter Guy is wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt
* Producer Guy isn't wearing a tie

## Trivia

* This is the first Pitch Meeting episode about a Spider-Man movie
* This is the first time Producer Guy isn't wearing a tie
* This is the second Pitch Meeting episode about an MCU movie, the first being Thor: Ragnarok

**Producer Guy:** So what's the movie about?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well it takes place a couple of months after *Civil War*.

**Producer Guy:** Okay, so Tony Stark has just made a big deal about superheroes having to be responsible.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Exactly. So at the beginning of this movie, Tony leaves a weaponized Spider-suit with a high school student and then doesn't take his calls.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, very cool.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, and it's equipped with a ton of crazy stuff. There's a bunch of web modes, a recon drone, glider wings, web grenades, even an instant kill mode that kinda turns on by itself.

**Producer Guy:** And Tony just leaves that in the hands of a teenager?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well, he left a software block on the crazier stuff.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, so it's impossible for Peter to access those modes.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Actually super easy, barely an inconvenience.

**Producer Guy:** Really?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah well Peter's friend Ned from high school hacks into the suit and just unblocks everything.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, hacking.

**Screenwriter Guy:** They also take a tracker out so Tony and Happy can't see where he goes.

**Producer Guy:** So Stark technology's like the best in the world; this Ned guy must be really smart.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Ehh.

**Producer Guy:** He's not?

**Screenwriter Guy:** I mean I guess technically he is but we're gonna play him as really dumb.

**Producer Guy:** Ooh, interesting.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah like in the first part of the movie he keeps loudly asking Peter super sensitive questions.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, that's dumb.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, you'd think that would be a no-brainer for anyone, right?

**Producer Guy:** And he's able to hack Stark tech?

**Screenwriter Guy:** He is, so Peter has access to a bunch of functionalities.

**Producer Guy:** Interesting.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, and it was really fun to write 'cause whenever I didn't know how to solve a problem in a scene I was like "Oh, well maybe the Stark suit has a mode to solve this".

**Producer Guy:** That's smart.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah and when that didn't work I'd just have Iron Man swoop in and save the day.

**Producer Guy:** People like Iron Man.

**Screenwriter Guy:** They do. Oh, that reminds me, the suit has a J.A.R.V.I.S. interface so we might have to get Paul Bettany back if possible.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, actually we can't do that.

**Screenwriter Guy:** How come?

**Producer Guy:** Well, he's transformed into Vision now.

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[disappointed]* Oh, that's right.

**Producer Guy:** I… can see if his wife is available?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Jennifer Connelly! Yeah perfect!

**Producer Guy:** Great. So does this movie have a villain 'cause I'd like to start casting ASAP.

**Screenwriter Guy:** It does, he's called the Vulture.

**Producer Guy:** "The Vulture", so kind of like a…

**Screenwriter Guy:** He's like a… bird… man.

**Producer Guy:** A bird man? Okay. I can work with that, that'll help.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Awesome.

**Producer Guy:** So what's his deal?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well he was hired to clean up alien debris after the invasion in the first *Avengers* movie.

**Producer Guy:** Interesting. Tying it together.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah but then he was fired so he became a supervillain to support his family.

**Producer Guy:** Just a 180 like that.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, pretty much immediately. So he and his crew start stealing alien debris and use them to make superweapons.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, you'd think the government would be keeping really close watch on that stuff.

**Screenwriter Guy:** You'd think so but we jump forward eight years in time and Vulture's doing great, no problems at all.

**Producer Guy:** Wow.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah and it's like they're not even being that secretive about it.

**Producer Guy:** No?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, they're just selling to like run-of-the-mill criminals for like robberies and stuff.

**Producer Guy:** Just anyone?

**Screenwriter Guy:** It seems that way, plus one of the guys likes to demo them in open spaces, at another point they're literally on the news.

**Producer Guy:** And nobody's looking too deeply into this?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Not really, no, but Spider-Man decides to.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, he does, does he?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah and it's gonna lead to some pretty crazy action, like we're really stepping things up from the older *Spider-Man* movies.

**Producer Guy:** I'm listening.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So you know in *The Amazing Spider-Man 2* there's Peter's love interest falling from high up inside a tower?

**Producer Guy:** Yeah.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well in this movie we're gonna have Peter's love interest falling from high up inside a tower, except now that tower is the Washington Monument.

**Producer Guy:** *[unsure]* Mmm.

**Screenwriter Guy:** What's wrong?

**Producer Guy:** I think that's a mistake.

**Screenwriter Guy:** It is?

**Producer Guy:** Yeah, I do. I think the Washington Monument is technically an obelisk, not a tower.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh. But, you like the idea?

**Producer Guy:** Oh, yeah no, I love the idea. Love interest falling from high up, that's amazing.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Great. And we're also gonna do the Jesus thing from *Spider-Man 2*.

**Producer Guy:** *[confused]* Jesus thing?

**Screenwriter Guy:** You know when Tobey Maguire is trying to stop a train with some webs and it looks like he's gonna poop?

**Producer Guy:** Oh yeah.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah so basically that but with a ferry that gets cut in half.

**Producer Guy:** How does he manage to get the ferry back together?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well I couldn't think of a way for the suit to take care of it, so… Iron Man swoops in and saves the day.

**Producer Guy:** Gotcha, that's a good system.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right? It made this so easy to write.

**Producer Guy:** So what's the climax of the movie?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh so Happy Hogan is having a bunch of super dangerous and valuable stuff shipped for Tony.

**Producer Guy:** He does that even though there's this big bad guy flying around stealing dangerous and valuable stuff?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yes, he does.

**Producer Guy:** So I guess he's gonna have some pretty crazy security on that shipment.

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, he puts it on a plane and sets the plane to autopilot.

**Producer Guy:** That's it?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, it's invisible.

**Producer Guy:** Does that help?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No.

**Producer Guy:** How do the Vulture and his team learn so much about the plans to ship this stuff?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, we're not gonna explain that.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, that's a gutsy move 'cause some people might consider that lazy writing but I know you're just trying to keep some mystery, I like it.

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[a little nervous]* Yes, because of the mystery. That's why. I did that.

**Producer Guy:** And how does the movie end?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well Tony had taken Peter's suit away because he went after the Vulture which was reckless.

**Producer Guy:** Right.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And at the end he offers him a new suit because he went after the Vulture which was brave.

**Producer Guy:** Okay, so Spider-Man ends the movie with an even better suit.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Actually no, that's a pretty big moment.

**Producer Guy:** Go on.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Tony offers him this amazing Iron Spider suit but he's like "No thanks".

**Producer Guy:** Oh wow!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, it's a huge character moment.

**Producer Guy:** I like that.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right? It sends the message of like "I don't need Iron Man".

**Producer Guy:** Exactly, by not taking the suit it's like "I'm my own person".

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, and I think the decision to not get in the suit is really gonna define the character moving forward.

**Producer Guy:** I love it.

*[cut to headline: **Spider-Man Rocks Iron Spider Armor in Avengers: Infinity War**]*