“I was asked if I might be interested in the first Spider-Man, and I went in and told them what I might be interested in doing, and they hated it. No, I’m not interested in doing “A Superhero”. The thing I liked about Spider-Man was I liked the idea of a teenager, the notion of this moment in time when you’re so vulnerable yet completely invulnerable. But I wasn’t interested in the genesis, I just couldn’t shoot somebody being bitten by a radioactive spider – just couldn’t sleep knowing I’d done that.”
I wouldn’t necessarily say that this means Fincher will never do a superhero movie though, since there are a bunch of realistically concieved superheroes out there. Just because I can’t think of any doesn’t mean anything. I’m sure you guys will educate me. I can’t always be the one teaching people things.