The final fight scenes with Electro and Sandman are more interesting with a modern context - the big climax takes place atop the World Trace Centre. He sells this tape to the Daily Bugle, but cuts it as Spider-Man abducting Mary-Jane. Unfortunately for Spider-Man and Mary-Jane, Sandman is a sneaky little voyeur and had filmed them having sex.
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That’s something the Spider-Man series has always been about, although the comics and future iterations have made that point clear without the imagery of web ejaculation. He awakens from this seizure-like hibernation period with sticky white fluid binding him to his sheets. The snippet from the James Cameron “scriptment” where Spider-Man gets his powers. He gets bitten and goes through a psychotropic-style trip, something the script describes as “ Kafka-esque”. The plot is fairly standard superhero origin stuff: Spidey is on the receiving end of a tragic event, gains his powers, fights bad guys.īut in Cameron’s version, the spider-bite is decidedly gruesome. Marvel had also earmarked Kevin Spacey to play Norman Osborn.
Douglas would eventually appear in the Marvel universe, however, portraying Hank Pym 25 years later in the Ant-Man films. It’s hard to see someone else in the role after J.K. Interestingly, the studio eyed Michael Douglas as J. In another treatment for the script, the producers had targeted Arnold Schwarzenegger to play Doctor Octopus, a casting choice that could even work in modern day Super-Man. Nikki Cox was cast in the role, although she would be later become known for her lead role in the sitcom Unhappily Ever After which ran for 100 episodes. Spidey’s love interest would be Mary-Jane, which did carry over to the Sam Raimi films. Both takes have ended up in later Spidey films, with Sandman debuting in 2007’s Spider-Man 3 played by Thomas Haden Church, and Jamie Foxx as Electro in 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Electro was to be played by Lance Henricksen, and Sandman by Michael Beihn.Ĭarlton Strand was written to be a caricature of hardcore capitalist businessmen (think RoboCop), while Sandman was more of a classic Spider-Man villain story of getting involved in mad science experiments involving atoms and the like. The villains for the piece were meant to be Electro and Sandman, but neither under their traditional names of Max Dillon or Flint Marko – but instead as Carlton Strand and ‘Boyd’ respectively. Fresh off his Oscar-nominated performance in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, he was hot property for pretty much any studio that needed a lead. The titular hero would be played by the most 90s possible casting choice - Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Understandably, the movie got stuck in development hell, although Cameron’s full script treatment would eventually be released online. It was heavy on profanity and highly sexual, including a rather peculiar sex scene (more on that later). and Marvel would all go bankrupt three years later, with courts returning the rights to Marvel in 1998 after the company recovered from near-financial ruin.Īs for the film itself, the plot was best described as being heavily inspired by the 1990s “dark and gritty” take on comic book characters. Carolco, Golan’s new studio 21st Century Film Corp. Cameron would have the right to decide on movie and advertising credits, which eventually sparked a legal battle in 1993 after Golan sued to regain a credit for producing the film. So Cameron wanted a special deal, one that replicated his work on Terminator 2: Judgement Day. While The Cannon Group never developed a Spider-Man film, they did produce one teaser trailer. But Cameron was also riding high off the success of Aliens and The Abyss, both of which had won and received several Academy Award nominations. Carolco had an ace up their sleeve: James Cameron, who co-wrote the screenplay for Rambo: First Blood Part II, wanted to direct the film. The Cannon Group couldn’t make Spider-Man happen, so before the rights transferred to Marvel, Golan and Globus’s company sold the rights to Carolco for $5 million.