Despite this, Marc Webb - director of both the 2012 and 2014 outing - has remained positive about his experience in bringing the Marvel web-slinger to screen in the Sony Pictures films.

He told Collider: “It's hard for me to think about it, in terms of regrets - there are so many things that I'm proud of.”

“There was an ambition with the second movie, in particular,” he elaborated. “The idea that it's a superhero that can't save everybody is something that I'm really proud of. I' really proud of the ambition of that because it's an important message, and I believe in that. I believe in what we were after, They're really, really difficult movies to make. They're complex in ways that people don't fully understand. They weren't disasters.”

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Webb was hopeful to turn the franchise into a trilogy until Marvel snatched Spidey back to induct him into the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, wasting no time in introducing him in Captain America: Civil War, played by Tom Holland, in 2016.

His standalone movie - Spider-Man: Homecoming - will be released later this year.

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Webb's new film, Gifted, is an independent drama starring Captain America actor Chris Evans as a father drawn into a custody battle.