From ComicBookMovie, via Popcorn Biz, the “Amazing Spiderman” director talks about rebooting the film franchise with new actors and retelling the origin story of Peter Parker, the original angsty teen:

“Well, we’re telling the story in a different way and I think it’s really important when you’re redefining a character for the audience to experience things that they haven’t experienced from the ground up. I wanted to build a character. There’s just something about the movies that I see, like, I feel like point of view is a really crucial thing in the story and that you need to build up the sort of emotional building blocks so that you can experience all the other emotions in a very specific way rather than just experience it in an intellectual way. I mean, that’s why at the beginning of the movie there’s a story of his parents. I think you want to feel what that sense of abandonment feels like as an audience member so that you can readily and appropriately identify. And we’re creating a different universe with different rules and a different tone and different villains. We’re very careful to honor the iconography of ‘Spider-Man,’ but we wanted to tell it in a new and different way.”