Aside from confirming that the new movie will take place in the modern day, Kinberg says he doesn’t know how the 20th Century Fox marketing machine will start revealing the film to the public, so he doesn’t know when we’ll see the costumes.
SIMON KINBERG: The thing I would say overall about the film is that it’s a much more grounded, realistic, dramatic version of the film than those are films were. Which isn’t to say it’s Dark Knight. It’s not. It’s still fun and sort of…
Would you say it’s more “X-Men-y” or “Spider-Man-y”?
KINBERG: I would say “Spider-Man-y”—
Well, that’s both good and bad, because Spider-Man is a little cartoony.
KINBERG: But I would say there’s a spectrum, and we’re on the spectrum between Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man and Chronicle. It would probably lean more towards Chronicle. I don’t know where X-Men falls on the spectrum, so I’m just going to focus on those two things because I feel it’s a movie about young people coming of age. So it has some of Spider-Man and some of Chronicle aspects to it, but like Chronicle it’s much more real and grounded and real world than those other films.
Wrapping up, Kinberg said that shooting begins in Louisiana in two or three weeks and they’ll be shooting through late July or August. That’s a whole lot of clobberin’ time.