Is Dan Slott looking to write a Spider-Man film in the future?

[Darthfury78]

Could you envision Dan Slott writing a screen play for the next Spider-Man films, whether it's live action or animated?

[Revolutionary_Jack]

Could you envision Dan Slott writing a screen play for the next Spider-Man films, whether it's live action or animated?

To write a screenplay, you need:

1) An agent.
2) A membership in the WGA.
3) Probably a visit and extended stay in the West Coast.

It's a wholly different career from writing comic books.

Dan Slott as per his IMDb page (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2739541/) has written scripts for TV shows like the Fantastic Four cartoon, the USM cartoon, and he worked as a producer on the recently concluded Marvel Spider-Man cartoon. He's also written the Shattered Dimensions game, and was part of the writing team on the PS4 game.

I don't think that suggests someone especially ambitious and gearing to write screenplays for a Hollywood movie. As they say, "You gotta want it really bad".

Spider-Man movies and their scripts have always been written by professional Hollywood screenwriters (as well as some uncredited scribes and script doctors here and there), for better and for worse.

Writing one medium doesn't translate to writing for another. Writing a play is not the same as writing a novel or a poem and so on and so forth. Writing for comics doesn't translate to writing for movies. Donny Cates had tried pitching some scripts and he pointed out in an interview that when you are writing a comics script you are basically slowing stuff down, pacing it step by step moment by moment whereas cinema is all action, all movement, and there can't be anything extraneous that gets in the way of the overall point of the film.

On the whole, the question is inextricable from "Would you want Slott to write a screenplay for the Spider-Man film" and the answer to that is no for a variety of reasons. The biggest attribute a comics writer can bring to the movie business is a ear for dialogue and Slott's dialogue is generally not very good. Among Spider-Man writers with a good ear for dialogue, someone like JMS (who does have real Hollywood experiences and written screenplays for major film-makers like Clint Eastwood), Roger Stern, Paul Jenkins, JMD, among others would be preferable.

[Frontier]

Slott seemed fairly comfortable playing a consultant role on Spider-Man media but I'm not sure if he has that time now.

[the nomad]

He already did. It's called Marvel's Spider-Man. IT's for the PS4

[Revolutionary_Jack]

He already did. It's called Marvel's Spider-Man. IT's for the PS4

Slott was just ONE of the writers and not the main writer.

The actual game was overseen by Jon Paquette and a big writing staff. In the end credits of the game, all Slott is credited with is "Additional Dialogue".

The writing of the game wasn't mainly or significantly done by him.

[Lukmendes]

Slott was just ONE of the writers and not the main writer.

The actual game was overseen by Jon Paquette and a big writing staff. In the end credits of the game, all Slott is credited with is "Additional Dialogue".

The writing of the game wasn't mainly or significantly done by him.

I think the additional dialogue is after the bomb in that building explodes, and Vulture is dragging Spidey along, specifically when Vulture says "So refreshing to work for a man like Octavius! Backup plans for his backup plans!", which always looked weird for me 'cause, that's more of a Slott's Otto thing (Stuff like Ends of the Earth has Otto being ahead of everything and everyone), and nowhere in the game does it look like Otto has backup plans, if anything he tends to do rather straight forward stuff for the most part, and and rely on this particular plan, with only the bomb moment really looking like he planned for something.