Spider-Man: Homecoming Director Teases New Look Techy Vulture

Anyone else getting Rhino-shaped blips on their Spidey Senses?

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Since it was revealed at Comic Con last week, the new design of The Vulture for Spider-Man: Homecoming has been a sizeable talking point. It seems to be another armour-suit in place of meta-human/mutant powers, like with the disastrous Rhino in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and if it's Michael Keaton under there, it's hiding the bankable brand of his face.

Now director Jon Watts has revealed some more about the character, revealing that is indeed the approach they've gone for. Talking to Collider, Watts talked about the new design:

"It's a very tech based approach to how The Vulture would build a wing suit and how he would fly. It's not just cool design, it's a big part of the story. That I can't give away, but there's some cool stuff that goes along with that."

There's a big rumour - thanks to a Comic Con leak - that The Vulture will work with The Tinkerer to make his suit. That would make sense, particularly as it addresses the "too many villains" concerns by putting the latter into a more supporting role. And it's a dynamic that has worked in patches for Daredevil on Netflix.

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So why not just make Vulture the mutant type he was in the comics?

"From the very beginning, we wanted to try to keep it tech based just to keep it different initially from what we had seen before. Just getting away from anything that was too similar to [the past], and it sets up a really cool thing that I don't want to talk about yet! It's gonna be awesome."

Similarities to the past? Green Goblin was a tech-based redesign initially. So was Rhino. Clearly the results are mixed, but it's not exactly an unprecedented swerve here.

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I have faith in Marvel, but those Rhino wounds are hard to shake off.

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