In December 2013, Marvel hired Cabin In the Woods filmmaker Drew Goddard to be the showrunner for Netflix's Daredevil TV series, but in May 2014, he left the project when Sony Pictures hired him to write and direct a Sinister Six film in The Amazing Spider-Man universe. That went up in smoke the moment Sony decided to reboot Spider-Man (again!) and allowed the Webhead to be a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, Goddard was considered to helm the Spidey reboot, which eventually went to Jon Watts (Cop Car), and now he explains why he didn't land the gig.

"I mean, I think that’s more a question for them, but here’s the good news. I’ve worked with Marvel a lot. The way that Marvel sort of works is they say, ‘Hey, do you have an idea for… Here’s the movies we’re thinking about making…’ They sort of tell the world what they’re thinking of making, and they sort of put out there, if you have an idea for any of these, come talk to us," Goddard told Cinema Blend while promoting The Martian, which he wrote the screenplay. "And I think, with Spider-Man, I didn’t really have an idea. Part of that might have just been because I had just written one. I spent a year working on Sinister Six, and I think I was like in a head space where I just didn’t… you know, it’s very hard to say, ‘Ok, now write a new movie.’ So, it never got that far. We never, it never got taken that far. They know how much respect I have for them. They’ve been very nice to me over the years, and I know sooner or later, we’re going to find the right project. It’s all about timing."

Tom Holland's Spider-Man/Peter Parker will debut in Captain America: Civil War, arriving in theaters May 6, 2016. He'll then star in Jon Watts' solo Spider-Man movie, to be released on July 28, 2017.