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Years before Sam Raimi’s ground-breakingSpider-Mantrilogy made it to the big screen and forever revolutionized the comic book superhero genre, there were several other iterations of the tale with several other filmmakers and actors associated with the project. One of them was James Cameron, who was eager to have a more mature and grounded take on the web-slinger’s live-action debut film.
Associated and contacted by Carolco Pictures, Cameron originally wanted Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead before the studio went bankrupt. However, if the filmmaker’s version of the movie had made it through, we would have gotten Spider-Man fighting two different Marvel villains in his first film.
James Cameron’sSpider-ManMovie Would Have Featured Two Different Marvel Villains
Years beforeSam RaimiandTobey Maguire‘s epicSpider-Manmovie was released in theatres,James Cameronwas offered the movie. While financial issues and studio bankruptcy prevented the movie from ever being made, theTitanicdirector had two different versions of thescript.
The script was focused on the origin story of how Peter Parker became the acclaimed web-slinger. Yet, this iteration of the film had Electro and Sandman as the main villains of the unmade movie.
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Electro, named Carlton Strand, was supposed to be an extremely wealthy businessman who became the iconic Marvel villain in a lightning incident. Sandman, named Boyd, was just a maintenance man, who after getting in contact with a secret military project experiment ended up getting hissandpowers.
Electro and Sandman, greatly differing from their comic book origins, would have made their live-action debut way earlier thanThe Amazing Spider-Man 2andSpider-Man 3, respectively. While it would have been interesting to see Camron’s take on the movie, it certainly differed from Sam Raimi’sSpider-Mana great deal (viaScreen RantandFandom Wiki).
How James Cameron’sSpider-ManWas Different ThanSam Raimi’s
It is hard to imagine a director who has made movies likeTerminator,Avatar,andAliensmaking aSpider-Manmovie. Yet, that is what nearly happened, and the movie wasway different than Sam Raimi’sSpider-Mantrilogy.
Cameron, in his bookTech Noir: The Art of James Cameron, shared in extensive detail how his Marvel flick was supposed to be and even referred to it asthe greatest movie I never made. Furthermore, while speaking toScreen Crushabout the movie, he remarked,
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“I think it would’ve been very different… I wanted to make something that had a kind of gritty reality to it… I wanted to do something that would have been more in the vein of Terminator and Aliens, that you buy into the reality right away. So you’re in a real world, you’re not in some mythical Gotham City… A guy gets bitten by a spider. He turns into this kid with these powers… I wanted to ground it in reality and ground it in universal human experience.”
States Cameron while exclaiming that his script was written with the blessings of Stan Lee and the story was set in New York. While Cameron tried several times to persuade studios to buy the movie, the rights, and other complexities prevented the movie from being made.
And now we can only wonder what the film would have looked like, reminiscing something that we almost had.
Sam Raimi’sSpider-Mantrilogy can be streamed on Disney+.
Maria Sultan
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Maria Sultan is a dedicated News Content Writer at FandomWire. With over five years of professional experience and hundreds of published articles, she brings a wealth of expertise to her coverage of Marvel, K-dramas, and the latest on streaming platforms.Her work is not just about reporting news; it’s about providing insightful perspectives on the entertainment trends that matter most.
