Jon Watts has directed all three Spider-Man movies with Tom Holland in the Marvel series. However, he opted out of directing The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which Matt Shakman directed.
Now he says in an interview with Variety that he is open to directing the superhero genre again. “I’m open to anything and everything. I don’t limit myself that way. I’m most attracted to original ideas.”
He continues: “It’s like the North Star for me – big, original ideas. But there’s already so much good stuff out there that I think you can find a way to make it your own and make it feel original.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Jon opens up about the clown-related horror genre. “I don’t know. It’s just a very visceral thing. It’s hard to talk about clowns after John Wayne Gacy, because before that there wasn’t the same kind of evil attached to a clown.”
“A clown was really a positive thing that people liked. I think it’s the mask. It’s the eerie level of makeup and the weird smile that’s just really unsettling. Like, yeah, there’s a person down there, but you don’t really know who it is.”
“I think that’s what’s always freaked me out. But I still like good, positive clowns, too. There are people who are really good clowns who entertain people. I don’t want everyone to think that all clowns are scary, so I feel a little bad about being a part of that. I know some really good clowns, and I feel a little guilty about making everyone feel guilty about having clowns in when they really want clowns with. joy and smiles,’ he concludes.
