This is information that isn’t necessarily well known to the general public, but in the 90s James Cameron came very close to detouring the Marvel Universe to create Spider-Man.
Some names have even been mentioned for the role of a young Peter Parker, such as Leonardo DiCaprio or Edward Furlong, and the presence of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the role of one of the supervillains and Nicky Cox’s character were also considered. Mary Jane Watson.
The film — which was slated for release shortly after Terminator 2 while the director made little progress on his lopsided Titanic project — ultimately never saw the light of day, due to rights issues, production costs and a bankrupt studio.
So, only a few years later, in the early 2000s, the Sony and Columbia-led Spider-Man adaptation project finally saw the light of day. In front of the stage of the filmmaker who became famous in the 80s with his horror trilogy Evil Dead: Sam Raimi.
Little of James Cameron’s original screenplay remains in screenwriter David Koepp’s version, taking over, for example, the disappearance of villains Electro and Sandman in favor of the Green Goblin, played by the excellent Willem Dafoe.
It will be a success, and Sam Raimi will return for two new parts, creating a new trilogy twenty years after Evil Dead, which will return twenty years later to the Marvel universe with Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness.
With the rebroadcast of the first two films on TFX last Thursday now available on TF1+, today we invite you to play with this original Spider-Man trilogy by getting these fifteen pictures right!
Source: Allocine
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