What could have been before executive meddling.
>In early drafts, Sandman and Vulture are the villains. Sandman is a reluctant criminal who accidentally killed Uncle Ben and uses his newfound powers to steal the money needed for his daughter's treatment, while Vulture is Sandman's former cellmate whom he breaks out of prison to help him defeat Spider-Man. Harry's descent into villainy is explored, but he only becomes the new Green Goblin as a stinger for a potential sequel.
>Sony demanded that Raimi add Venom and Gwen Stacy to the narrative and explore Harry as the New Goblin, forcing Raimi to remove the Vulture and change the movie's storyline from "Peter finds out good people can be criminals" to "Peter grapples with his dark side". The script became so complex that Sargent considered splitting it into two movies, but couldn't find a satisfying breaking point in the story.
>In early drafts, the symbiote would arrive on Earth in a space shuttle piloted by John Jameson, which would malfunction and nearly crash-land on Manhattan before Spider-Man intervenes and manages to divert it into the Hudson River, for which he is awarded the key to the city. The sequence was deemed too extenside and expensive and entirely scrapped.
>In early drafts, Eddie Brock's sociopathic tendencies are evidenced, with Peter learning of his criminal record. Brock would also obsessively stalk Gwen and attempt to force his way into her house, claiming she told him she loved him, before being escorted out by Captain Stacy, and present himself as "the only righteous man in a world of sinners" during his rant at the church.
>In early drafts, Sandman would ambush Spider-Man once again at the construction site, before being interrupted by Captain George Stacy, who brings his wife and daughter into the site. Sandman learns that his daughter's conditional is terminal and there is no longer a cure, and is allowed by Spider-Man and Captain Stacy to escape and spend his daughter's final moments by her side.
>In early drafts, Harry's butler Bernard is revealed to a hallucination projected by Harry's subconscious to justify him betraying his father's memory by helping Peter. The scene was shot, but removed after test-audiences were confused by it.
>In early drafts, Gwen would've been kidnapped by Venom and Sandman, but scheduling conflicts forced Raimi to replace her with MJ although he didn't want MJ to be the damsel in distress once again.
>>84118106
>Sandman is a reluctant criminal who accidentally killed Uncle Ben
I find it hard to believe that this was Sam Raimi's idea. By far the dumbest part of the movie.
>>84118106
The entire retcon with Uncle Ben is still high levels of stupid
>>84118135
>Sandman learns that his daughter's conditional is terminal and there is no longer a cure, and is allowed by Spider-Man and Captain Stacy to escape and spend his daughter's final moments by her side.
That's pretty fucking sad.
The earliest of early drafts sounds way better than what we got, but like others are saying, retconning Uncle Ben's death is still dumb.
>>84118248
That's why it was cut.
>>84118195
Believe it. Raimi subscribes to the Idea all of Spider-Man's enemies should be connected to Peter on some level.
>>84119522
That's kind of lazy though. There are ways to make villains personal without having to connect all of them to Peter Parker.
>>84118106
Wasn't this posted recently? Anyway post the drafts for ASM2, I remember those being better in terms of how they would've improved the movies.
>>84119522
I have never heard him say that, but even if that was the case there are a million ways to connect Sandman to Spidey that aren't as batshitted retarded as the one they pulled out of their ass.
>>84118106
>Sandman is a reluctant criminal who accidentally killed Uncle Ben
sounds like....still awful
>>84121682
I haven't either, but it does make sense when you consider all the villains in the Rami films.
