The biter bit

Although still a year away from release in our cinemas, an interesting insight into the re-boot of the Spider-man franchise comes from its action director, Britain's own Vic Armstrong.

In his new autobiography, modestly titled The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman (Titan Books), Armstrong writes: "We're going right back to the beginning to when Peter Parker gets bitten, and even before that.

"I saw some of the previous Spider-man movies and I must admit I didn't particularly enjoy them, they looked ridiculous at times, and so much of it relied on CGI.

"On this, we're hoping to go about things in a more realistic way; we're going to do a lot of radical Parkour and Muay Thai-style fighting, and we're developing a way for the new Spider-man [played by Andrew Garfield] to swing and move and climb up buildings."

For a movie about a human arachnid, it surely can't hurt that the director is called Marc Webb!