Spider-Man: Homecoming Pitch Meeting Shows a Drier, Earlier Ryan George

Going back to Screen Rant's Pitch Meeting for Spider-Man: Homecoming, it was kind of interesting to see how different an early Ryan George sketch feels from the newer ones. It is drier and less refined, and while we both lean toward the later style, there is still something funny and clever here.

The early Pitch Meeting lacks Ryan George's manic energy

It was interesting to see the younger Ryan George, because the character has really morphed over the years. In our interview with him, he said that when he starts to do the character, he makes that manic face and then he is ready to go. Here he does not have that yet. As he told us, he paid attention to the comments, saw what people were into, and the sketches evolved into a couple of people who are really excited about a terrible thing. Not that this one is terrible; that is just the conceit.

There are pros and cons to both versions. We are both more into the newer one because of the energy, but this one is "very dry like the office." It is almost like the difference between season one and season 10 of Friends. The editing is different too: here nobody overlaps lines, whereas the newer episodes have way more overlapping.

The Tom Holland films as an extension of Iron Man

The sketch makes good points. There's a criticism out there that the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies, at least up until the latest one at the time, did not really feel like Spider-Man movies, more like an extension of the Avengers or Iron Man, with Peter as a kind of "iron boy." It's a fair criticism, but the movie was a lot of fun anyway: "it's one of my favorite spider-man movies."

What they did is kind of genius, in a same but different, Save the Cat way. Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield were basically the same superhero, with each actor lending their personality. Tom Holland's version was completely revamped as Iron Man's padawan. He actually feels like he is in high school, and integrating Iron Man tech made it completely different. Spider-Man purists may want him having his own adventure back, but it worked really well.

The ending, where Peter turns down the suit and feels he passed the test, did not go anywhere in particular, since he ended up joining the Avengers anyway.

Plot conveniences, and Michael Keaton's winged roles

The sketch flags real conveniences, like Iron Man showing up to save the day and the Spider-Man 2 train pose. But what else would Spider-Man do? Stopping a train or reassembling a ship with his strength is going to look similar. It is also fascinating to see Michael Keaton go from Batman to Birdman to the Vulture, tying winged characters together.

It feels like 2017 was both yesterday and a hundred years ago. Do you prefer the dry early Pitch Meetings or the high energy newer ones?