SPIDER-MAN (2002)
>Chris Columbus, Roland Emmerich, Tony Scott, Jan de Bont, Ang Lee, David Fincher, M. Night Shyamalan and Tim Burton were approached to direct the movie before Sam Raimi was hired.
>David Koepp wrote the first draft of the script, which was later revised by Scott Rosenberg and Alvin Sargent. Koepp's draft was notoriously campier and more melodramatic in line with the comic book movies of the 1990's.
>In Koepp's draft, Peter Parker and Harry Osborn are not friends, and Mary-Jane Watson has a crush on Harry. Peter and Harry eventually move in together so Aunt May can sublet Peter's room to help pay the bills, with the agreement Peter will help Harry with his studies. Harry is consumed by jealousy when Peter and MJ begin growing closer. Mary-Jane also has a younger brother who finds out Peter is Spider-Man.
>In Koepp's draft, Norman Osborn despises Harry and believes OsCorp will be ruined under his administration. He forces Harry to fire OsCorp's head scientist, Dr. Otto Octavius, whose designs OsCorp has stolen, causing an infuriated Octavius to lash out and cause an explosion that both fuses his mechanical arms to his spine and exposes Norman to a serum that turns him into the Green Goblin.
>In Koepp's draft, Norman's goal is to kill Harry to preserve OsCorp's future, and he later begins targeting Peter for stealing MJ from Harry, and MJ from choosing another man over Harry, which Norman views as an affront to the Osborn family. Octavius sees the Green Goblin using his designs and vows revenge against him, becoming Doctor Octopus.
>In Koepp's draft, the Green Goblin lures Peter, Harry and MJ into a trap at OsCorp Tower and attempts to kill them, but Peter manages to intervene as Spider-Man and save Harry. Doctor Octopus intervenes, forcing the Green Goblin to flee after kidnapping Mary-Jane. He attempts to throw her from the Brooklyn Bridge, but Spider-Man rescues her and knocks the Green Goblin off his glider. The Green Goblin is arrested and swears revenge on Spider-Man, Doctor Octopus swears revenge on Spider-Man for sparing the Green Goblin's life and Harry swears revenge on Spider-Man after seeing him kissing MJ.
>Rosenberg's and Sargent's revisions removed Doctor Octopus and refined the storyline, centering it on Peter's relationship with his surrogate fathers, Uncle Ben and Norman. Only two scenes from their drafts were removed from the movie: Peter rescuing hostages in a subway station, which is referenced in the movie, and Peter protecting Fargas, the wheelchair-bound OsCorp executive, during the Green Goblin's first attack.
>Freddie Prinze Jr. was Sony's top choice to play Peter, but Raimi believed he wasn't right for the role. Scott Speedman, Jay Rodan and James Franco auditioned before Tobey Maguire was cast. Franco was later cast as Harry.
>Kate Hudson was Sony's top choice to play MJ, but declined. Alicia Witt, Mena Suvari, Elisha Cuthbert and Eliza Dushku auditioned before Kirsten Dunst was cast.
>Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich and Robert De Niro were approached to play Norman Osborn before Willem Dafoe was cast.
>Hugh Jackman was approached to make a cameo appearance as Wolverine, but scheduling conflicts prevented it from happening.
SPIDER-MAN 2 (2004)
>Al Gough & Miles Millar and Michael Chabon wrote two alternative scripts, which were later combined by Raimi, Koepp and Sargent. Both drafts centered on Peter struggling with his responsabilities as he battles Doctor Octopus. Gough & Millar's draft also included Black Cat as an expert thief who attempts to entice Peter into abandoning his responsabilities and set up the Lizard for a potential sequel.
>In Chabon's draft, Otto Octavius is a handsome young scientist and the creator of the spider that bit Peter, to whom he provides with a microchip that can suppress his abilities. Octavius begins dating MJ, but spirals into insanity adter becoming addicted to the endorphins released into his system whenever he uses his mechanical arms. They're fused to his spine after a fight with Spider-Man, slowly killing him, and he becomes obsessed with using Spider-Man's spinal fluid to cure himself.
>In Chabon's draft, Harry also descends into paranoia, believing that Spider-Man is conspiring against him, and places a $10 million bounty on Spider-Man through the Daily Bugle, turning New York City against him. This, coupled with Octavius' accident and MJ's relationship with him, are what drives Peter to use the microchip to remove his powers, although he later has to slice it out with a butcher knife to become Spider-Man once again and stop Doctor Octopus.
>In Chabon's draft, Octavius realizes he's become a monster after MJ appeals to his humanity, and commits suicide in a collapsing building.
>Tobey Maguire injured his back while filming "Seabiscut" and demanded that shooting be delayed to accomodate his recovery, leading to tense negotiations with Sony in which he was nearly fired. Jake Gyllenhall had already been lined up to replace him before Maguire and Sony reached an agreement.
>Vincent D'Onofrio, Chris Cooper and Robert de Niro were approached to play Octavius before Alfred Molina was cast.
>>70247181
Didn't the Otto and Norman explosion happen in the cartoon? The good one. The one with the rad theme song "radioooooactiveeeeee spiderrrrrrmannn"
SPIDER-MAN 3 (2007)
>Raimi and his brother, Ivan Raimi, wrote the first draft of the script, which was later revised by Sargent.
>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.
>Ben Kingsley was approached to play the Vulture before the character was cut.
>Elisha Cuthbert and Scarlett Johansson were approached for Gwen Stacy before Bryce Dallas Howard was cast.
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2012)
>Sony greenlit SPIDER-MAN 4 for June 2011, with Raimi, Maguire, Dunst, Rosemary Harris and J.K. Simmons set to return, and John Malkovich and Anne Hathaway as the Vulture and Felicia Hardy. James Vanderbilt wrote the script, which was later revised by Steve Kloves, Gary Ross and David Lindsay-Abaire, but Raimi was not satisfied with the story and dropped out, leading to the project being scrapped.
>The script featured Peter and MJ as a married couple with a young son, Ben. Peter develops a relationship with Felicia, the adoptive daughter of Adrian Toomes, the new editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle, who attempts to seize control of New York City's criminal underworld as the Vulture. When Toomes accidentally dies in a fight with Spider-Man, Felicia becomes the Vulturess to enact revenge, but chooses to spare Peter's life upon learning who he is and leaves, while MJ and Ben also depart for Los Angeles, driving Peter to give up being Spider-Man.
>Sony originally planned to complete Raimi's series with SPIDER-MAN 4 and SPIDER-MAN 5 before rebooting the franchise, but decided to move forward with a reboot written by Vanderbilt and later revised by Kloves, Sargent and Paul Feig, and Marc Webb was selected to direct.
>In early drafts, Peter learns that his father, Richard Parker, coded the venom of the genetically engineered spiders he's created to Peter's DNA to prevent it from being weaponized by OsCorp, for which him and his wife, Mary Parker, were assassinated. Although "The Untold Story" was one of the marketing campaign's major selling points, Sony was wary after fan backlash when the concept was leaked online and deleted all scenes referencing the idea.
>>70247427
>Scarlet Johanson
>Elisha Cuthbert
>Bryce Dallas Howard
My wiener can only take so much... those three can never be allowed to be in the same room together
>In early drafts, Peter's high school classmates are more prominent. In addition to Gwen Stacy and Flash Thompson, there'd be Missy, an introverted nerdy girl who has a crush on Peter; and Ariel, Flash's manipulative girlfriend who attempts to seduce Peter once he becomes more popular after humilliating Flash in a basketball match. They both make brief appearances in the movie.
>In early drafts, Connors' relationship with his estranged ex-wife and son would receive more focus.
>In early drafts, Uncle Ben would be shot dead after chasing after the robber into a dark alley, mistakenly assuming he's Peter, causing the robber to panic and kill him.
>Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Daniel Radcliffe, Robert Pattinson, Logan Lerman, Anton Yelchin, Alden Ehrenreich, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Zac Efron, Jim Sturgess, Xavier Samuel, Liam Aiken, Drake Bell, Michael Angarano, Dane DeHaan and and Josh Hutcherson, among others, auditioned for the role of Peter before Andrew Garfield was cast.
>Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Mia Wasikowska, Imogen Poots, Teresa Palmer, Brooklyn Decker, Amber Heard, Dianna Agron, Emily Browning, Lily Collins, Emma Roberts, Anna Kendrick, Ophelia Lovibond, Sara Paxton, Georgina Haig, Dominique McElligott, Scout Taylor-Compton auditoned for the role of Gwen before Emma Stone was cast.
>Michael Fassbender was approached to play Connors before Rhys Ifans was cast.
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (2014)
>Originally, Peter would find out Norman Osborn murdered his parents and engineered his accident to use his blood as a cure in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2, and Norman would become the Green Goblin, leading to a vicious confrontation in which Gwen dies, in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3. However, Sony changed their plans in order to launch a cinematic universe built around the Sinister Six and condensed the Green Goblin storyline into one movie, replacing Norman with Harry Osborn.
>Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Jeff Pinkner wrote the script based on Vanderbilt's original idea.
>In early drafts, Mary-Jane Watson is present as Peter's neighbor, a skilled mechanic and waitress who lives with her abusive father and greatly admires Spider-Man. She helps Peter fix Aunt May's car, and Peter repays the favor by vising her father as Spider-Man and intimidating him into leaving MJ alone, and they establish a friendship.
>In early drafts, Peter meets J. Jonah Jameson and Robbie Robertson when he visits the Daily Bugle to discuss a staff job, during which he debates with Jameson on the validity of Spider-Man's methods. Spider-Man and Electro later fight throughout the Daily Bugle offices during their first encounter as Jameson decries them both.
>In early drafts, Max Dillon lives with his domineering, invalid mother. Upon returning home after his accident, he finds her celebrating the hush money she received from OsCorp to not report his disappearance, and demands she hugs him, but when she does, he accidentally electrocutes her, which causes him to snap and become Electro.
>In early drafts, Peter gives Harry his blood, which Harry believes can cure his condition, but it instead leaves Harry disfigured and drives him insane. He finds the weapon prototypes that Norman had stored in his secret laboratory and joins forces with Electro, who had escaped from Ravencroft Penitentiary in search of revenge, to destroy Spider-Man and OsCorp.
>In early drafts, Aleksei Sytsevich is a brilliant engineer who creates the Rhino himself with Soviet-era weaponry acquired from the black market to enact revenge against Spider-Man.
>In early drafts, Felicia Hardy is an ambitious, manipulative OsCorp executive who develops a relationship with Harry and becomes his accomplice.
>In early drafts, OsCorp is stolen from Harry by Ratha, who is later killed by the Green Goblin. The symbiote created by Peter's father Richard Parker is also in OsCorp's storage. The Special Programs division storing the weapons of the Sinister Six is absent.
>In early drafts, Peter would beat Harry to an inch of his life after Gwen's death, but ultimately choose to spare him.
>In early drafts, it is revealed that Norman's head is preserved in suspended animation following his apparent death while his enforcer Gustav Fiers uses Harry's venom-enhanced DNA to clone a healthy younger body for Norman.
>In early drafts, Richard reveals himself to have survived the plane crash that allegedly killed him and observed Peter from afar to protect him from OsCorp. He comforts Peter after Gwen's death and encourages him to keep fighting as Spider-Man, reminding him that "with great powers come great responsabilities".
>Shailene Woodley was cast as MJ, but all of her scenes were cut, reportedly to streamline the story and focus on Peter and Gwen's relationship.
>Webb wanted J.K. Simmons to return as Jameson, but Sony rejected the idea as they wanted a complete reboot from Raimi's movies. John Slattery and Sam Elliot were approached for the role before the character was cut.
>Damian Lewis was approached to play Electro before Jamie Foxx was cast.
>Alden Ehrenreich, Brady Corbet, Eddie Redmayne, Sam Claflin, Douglas Booth and Boyd Holbrook auditioned for Harry before Dane DeHaan was cast at Garfield's behest. Harry was originally envisioned as a "jock" in contrast to Peter being a geek.
Cannon Films had the rights and were planning to make a Spider-man film in the mid 80's, imagine how that would've turned out...
mfw a toby spidey vs garfield spidey movie was actually planned
>>70247264
>We almost got Petey Parko
Damn, it would have been amazing. No hate to Tobey but Gyllenhaal is on another level.
>>70247729
No need to imagine,
The road there.
>In 1985, Cannon Films attempted to produce the movie, directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Leslie Stevens, who misunderstood the concept and drafted a story about Peter Parker as ID badge photographer who is turned into a monstrous spider-like creature by a mad scientist building an army of monsters to conquer the world. Parker defeats the other monsters and then destroys the building, killing himself and the mad scientist.
>At Marvel's behest, the script was revised by Ted Newsom and John Brancato. In their draft, Peter is a college student under Otto Octavius' tutelage. An experiment gone wrong causes Octavius' mechanical arms to be fused to his spine, while Peter is bitten by a spider irradiated by the explosion. Adopting the identity of Spider-Man, Peter sets to stop Octavius from reproducing his experiment, which could destroy the entire world. Joseph Zito was hired to direct the movie.
>Tom Cruise, Charlie Sheen and John Cusack were approached to play Peter before stuntmant Scott Leva was cast. Bob Hoskins was approached to play Octavius, and Lauren Bacall and Katherine Hepburn were in talks to play Aunt May. Peter Cushing and Albert Caesar were set to play supporting characters Professor Solomon Rosomorf and NYPD Lieutenant Jake Marotta.
ASM2 could have been top tier capeshit, what a shame they gutted it
Then again it's kinda good cause Marvel get Spidey again
>>70247181
>Norman's goal is to kill Harry to preserve OsCorp's future, and he later begins targeting Peter for stealing MJ from Harry
>The script was revised by Barney Cohen and Menahem Golan to reduce the budget and add more comedic elements. Octavius was given the catchphrase "Okey Dokey" and a bumbling assistant named Weiner who also killed Uncle Ben; Peter only swung once, prefering to take cabs or rides with other characters otherwise; and Moratta was removed while two other characters were added: College administrator Alexander Thorkel and Kim Dawson, Peter's sexpot colleage with a pet salamander she carries everywhere. Zito disagreed with the changes and dropped out, being briefly replaced by Albert Pyun before Cannon went bankrupt.
>Golan retained the rights under his new production company, 21st Century Pictures, and license them to Carolco Pictures. They tapped James Cameron to write and direct the movie. His script had a gritty tone, with Peter becoming Spider-Man and struggling with power and responsability as the battles Carlton Strand, a corrupt businessman with electromagnetic powers, and his enforcer Boyd, who can control sand, as they attempt to built a master race of super-humans to take over the world. Cameron envisioned Leonardo DiCaprio as Peter and Gloria Stuart as Aunt May.
>A contract mishap gave Cameron the power to decide who'd be credited for the movie, and he chose not to credit Golan, leading to a years-long legal battle that led to Carolco Pictures and 21st Century Pictures going bankrupt and selling the movie rights to Sony Pictures.
I think these are your ideas
What happened in Spiderman 5?
>>70247489
fuck
spiderman 4 couldve been capekino
>>70247209
>Wolverine cameo
How?
>>70249373
It was a simpler time.
>>70247590
>spidman vs electro IN the bugle while JJ and black guy watch
Why has any fought not taken place in there with those two commentating? Goblin in the first one for a moment, but not really. Watch the shitty new spiderman recast Jonah.
>>70247528
>Drake Bell
I've seen the X-Men and now the Spider-Man What Could Have Beens. Have there been others?
