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There鈥檚 been a fair amount of talk about of late, between and general reactions to the footage glimpsed in the .

Today, we have some thoughts from the reboot鈥檚 aptly-named director, , concerning a (touchy?) issue for fans of the webslinger: how Peter Parker will be wielding his own, home-made artificial web-shooters in the reboot. There are also new high-resolution versions of official images from Amazing Spider-Man available, which offer a clearer look at and Emma Stone as the new incarnations of Peter and his gal pal, , respectively.

鈥檚 trilogy deviated from its comic book source material in many respects, including Peter鈥檚 newfound ability to create and shoot webbing, as a result of his mutation. With Amazing Spider-Man, however, Webb ultimately decided to drop that particular idea.

In an interview with , Webb offered the following insight on the matter:

鈥滻 had a meeting with and we talked about the web-shooters. I was curious about the incarnation of them [because] of course in the previous films [they went away from them] and we wanted to reestablish ourselves. That was one thing but the other thing was the fact that the web-shooters were able to dramatize Peter鈥檚 intellect and I thought that was really cool. 鈥� It was in the comics and we have a different design but it鈥檚 a cool element to have. It鈥檚 not something we over-use or over-exploit. To me, it鈥檚 something I remember from when I was a kid and thinking 鈥業t would be cool if I could build those.鈥欌赌�

That decision on Webb鈥檚 part seems all the more fitting, given the more realistic tone that he is aiming for with Amazing Spider-Man. It also won鈥檛 allow for those jokes about Peter鈥檚 ability to 鈥減erform鈥� (re: shoot web) that worked okay in Raimi鈥檚 more cartoony spider-universe 鈥� but would feel out of place in a 鈥済ritty鈥� Spider-Man movie.

The suit devised by 鈥檚 Peter Parker in Raimi鈥檚 Spider-Man trilogy was by and large loyal to the look and design of the hero鈥檚 outfit in the comic book continuity. It was also (intentionally?) stylized in such a manner that it almost looked computer-generated at times, which allowed for scenes of Maguire (and his stunt double) in costume to often mesh together well with the CGI version of the character. Webb and his production team went a similar route with Garfield鈥檚 red-and-blue duds, but still deviated noticeably from the look of Maguire鈥檚 outfit.

For more, read Webb鈥檚 comments on the matter below.

鈥淲e paid attention to the question of 鈥楬ow would a kid make it?鈥� And obviously we took some license with it. We also wanted a design that would make the body longer and more lithe, more of an acrobat, someone incredibly agile, and the legs of the spider [symbol on the chest] were something we used to emphasize that. We made a bunch of different suits for different lighting conditions. I wanted something that worked in the night a little better. We paid attention to that and also made the webbing [on the costume] a little bit darker. With the costume and the web-shooters we wanted to emphasize that these are things that Peter Parker made and that he is special himself even if he feels like he鈥檚 an outsider.鈥�

To get a taste of what Webb means, check out this photo gallery of previously-released 鈥� now, in hi-res and without the Entertainment Weekly watermark 鈥� which offers another look at Garfield in costume, among other things:

See the photos .

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As was discussed in the , Webb鈥檚 film really seems like it will either (pardon the pun) fly high or fall flat on its face. Going off early footage, the and cinematography looks promising, as does the cast as a whole. Whether the movie will really feel like a more nuanced and complicated examination of the Peter Parker origin story 鈥� or come off as a poor man鈥檚 鈥� is something we鈥檒l just have to wait and find out.

The Amazing Spider-Man will swing into 2D, 3D, theaters around the U.S. on July 3rd, 2012.

Source: , Columbia Pictures

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