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["Film Career" section for the article of Jon Watts]
Film Career
[edit]Watts's film career started with the short film called Clay Pride: Being Clay in America. This was the first film that Watts Directed and wrote the screenplay for. The film is a clay animated film about Steve Thompson coming out as "clay". He talks about his struggles in school and other aspects of life growing up becuase he was clay. [1]
The next film Watts directed was a horror movie called Clown. Watts made a fake trailer on YouTube with his friends about a dad turning into a killer clown and was later approched by Eli Roth to make the trailer into a real movie with Watts being the director.[2]
Watts then directed the film Cop Car. The film is about two young boys who find an abandoned police car that they steal and get chased by the murderous owner. In an interview Watts says the idea for this film came from a dream he had when he was a kid.[3]
Watts then directed Spider-man: Homecoming. Watts was very determined to be the director for this film that he admits that he "bothered" Marvel by sending them clips of a fake trailer he made for a Spider-man movie[4]. Watts wanted to stand out in the field so he decided to get a Spider-man tattoo on his chest and ended up getting the job.[5] He admits that he was very supprised and didn't know he was going to get the job until the last moment.[6]
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- ^ Clay Pride: Being Clay in America, retrieved 2018-11-29
- ^ "Why Eli Roth Made 'Spider-Man' Director Jon Watts' Fake Horror Trailer Into a Feature Film". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
- ^ Thompson, Anne (2015-08-14). "How Jon Watts Went from Sundance Indie 'Cop Car' to 'Spider-Man'". IndieWire. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
- ^ "Spider-Man: Homecoming Director 'Bothered' Sony & Marvel to Get the Job". ScreenRant. 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
- ^ "Five Things You Didn't Know About Director Jon Watts". TVOvermind. 2017-06-20. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
- ^ "Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts: 'I'm not really sure how I got this job'". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-12-03.