Marc Preston Webb (born August 31, 1974) is an American
music video,
short film and major
motion picture director. He directed the 2009 romantic comedy-drama
Days of Summer and is currently directing the 2012
Spider-Man reboot
The Amazing Spider-Man.
Life and career
Webb was born in
Bloomington, Indiana, the son of Margaret Ruth (née Stocker) and Norman Lott Webb, who works in math education at the
University of Wisconsin. When he was eighteen months old, Webb's family moved to
Madison, Wisconsin, where he was raised. He graduated from
Madison West High School, and subsequently attended
Colorado College, from which he graduated with an English degree.
His feature length debut,
Days of Summer, starring
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and
Zooey Deschanel, was released in July 2009 to an extremely positive critical reception. In January 2010,
Columbia Pictures hired Webb to replace
Sam Raimi as the director of the
upcoming reboot of the
Spider-Man franchise, scheduled to be released in 2012 and starring
Andrew Garfield.
Webb is signed to DNA in
Hollywood, California and Academy Productions Ltd in the
United Kingdom.
Webb's lamb
Webb's signature is a white lamb, which has appeared in a few of his videos. In
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