All 6 Canceled SpiderMan Movies (& Why They Didnt Happen)
All 6 Canceled Spider-Man Movies (& Why They Didn’t Happen)
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From Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 to Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 3, here’s every unmade Spider-Man movie (and why they were canceled).
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Here’s every unmade Spider-Man movie, and why they were canceled. There are few superheroes more ubiquitous than the web-slinger and their pals these days. Whether it’s Tom Holland getting up to all manner of teenaged shenanigans as Peter Parker in the MCU, Yuri Lowenthal’s twenty-something Peter Parker protecting NYC in Insomniac’s Spider-Man video game, or spider-heroes like Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen, and even Spider-Ham traversing the multiverse in the animated Spider-Verse franchise (to mention nothing of the ongoing Spider-Man comic books and cartoon series), there’s more than plenty of Spider-entertainment to go around.
The character’s popularity has long been attributed to their working-class roots and relatable nature: unlike other superheroes, Spider-Man is neither rich nor an extraterrestrial, and has to juggle the challenges of being a crime-fighter with school, work, family, and love (usually all at the same time). This grounds the web-slinger – regardless of who’s wearing the mask – in a way that makes them accessible to novices and non-hardcore comic book fans, arguably even more so than equally popular superhero icons like Superman and Batman.
Forty years after they were created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko for the world of Marvel Comics in 1962, Spider-Man joined the Man of Steel and Caped Crusader on the big screen and has starred in a half-dozen more live-action movies since then (in addition to showing up in MCU crossovers and the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse). Yet, for as many Spider-Man films are there are now, there are a significant number that never came to pass.
Cannon Films’ Spider-Man
The first (failed) attempt to make a live-action Spider-Man movie began in 1985, when Marvel optioned the rights to the now-defunct Cannon Films. It came at a strange time for superhero movies: Superman III had only disappointed commercially two years prior and the genre was still four years off from the ’90s renaissance ushered in by Tim Burton’s Batman. Stranger yet, Cannon execs Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus were under the impression Spider-Man was a monster horror property and turned to Leslie Stevens (creator of The Outer Limits) to write a script where Peter Parker becomes, basically, a giant human tarantula, with the intention of getting Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist) to direct it.
Unsurprisingly, Lee vetoed the idea of a Spider-Man film that strayed so far from the source material, and Stevens’ treatment was abandoned. After that, the project started moving forward again with a new script by Ted Newsom and John Brancato, this time in the form of a Peter Parker origin story featuring Doc Ock as his mentor-turned enemy. Joseph Zito (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter) was brought in to direct and had his eye on a cast that could’ve potentially included Bob Hoskins as Doc Ock and then up-and-comer Tom Cruise as Peter. In the end, though, things didn’t work out: Cannon eventually cut the film’s budget in an effort to curb their expenditures, prompting Zito to step down and the project to fall into development limbo. It was finally canceled in the late ’80s, at a time when Cannon was coming off expensive misfires with Masters of the Universe and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
James Cameron’s Spider-Man
Rather than giving up on the idea of a Spider-Man movie, Golan later extended his deal with Marvel to 1992 and tried, but failed, to get the project going again at Columbia Pictures. A few years later, shortly before he’d finished production on True Lies, James Cameron submitted his own treatment for a live-action Spider-Man movie (one he’d been working on since the early ’80s) to Carolco Pictures. Cameron’s plan was to put a far more mature (as in, R-rated) spin on the typical Peter Parker origin story by really playing up the parallels between Peter gaining his Spider powers and going through puberty. He also infamously plotted out a scene where Peter seduces Mary Jane by discussing the mating habits of the spider, before the pair commence to have sex on the Brooklyn Bridge.
As odd as that might sound, Cameron’s film was ultimately undone by outside factors: legal disagreements between Golan and Carolco held the movie up before Carolco, 21st Century Film Corporation (which Golan had taken charge of after resigning from Cannon in 1989), and Marvel all went bankrupt in 1996, and Cameron moved on to other ventures after signing a deal with 20th Century Fox. Eventually, towards the end of the decade, Columbia and Sony acquired the full Spider-Man movie rights and recruited Sam Raimi to direct the first of his three extremely lucrative live-action films starring Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane.
Spider-Man 4
Collectively, Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy grossed over $2.5 billion at the box office and earned widespread acclaim for its first two entries (with Spider-Man 3 getting a far less glowing, if still decent reception). Needless to say, Spider-Man 4 was put into development shortly after the third movie opened in 2007, with the intention of having Raimi once again direct and Maguire and Dunst starring. John Malkovich later entered talks to play the Vulture (a villain Raimi had originally wanted to include in Spider-Man 3) in late 2009, with Anne Hathaway lined up to play Felicia Hardy (who becomes Black Cat in the Marvel comic books). It’s also believed Spider-Man 4 would’ve carried over key plot threads from Raimi’s trilogy, including Peter and Mary Jane rebuilding their relationship after what happened in Spider-Man 3 and Peter’s professor, Curt Connors, gradually transforming into The Lizard.
Per the terms of their deal for the Spider-Man rights, Sony needed to be actively developing a new Spider-Man movie every few years, which led to them setting a May 2011 release date for Spider-Man 4. Raimi, who was already disappointed by how Spider-Man 3 turned out, tried multiple times to crack the story and script for the fourth movie in time to meet this deadline before ultimately deciding it would be better for him to step down, rather than release another rushed sequel he didn’t fully believe in. Sony, as mentioned, had to keep the ball rolling all the same, which is why they decided to reboot the franchise instead.
The Amazing Spider-Man 3 & 4
Released in 2012, The Amazing Spider-Man once again retold Peter Parker’s origin story, this time with Andrew Garfield playing Peter, Emma Sone costarring as Gwen Stacy, and Marc Webb (fresh off the success of 2009’s 500 Days of Summer) directing. Reviews were not as strong as those for Raimi’s first two Spider-Man movies, but The Amazing Spider-Man still drew accolades for its slick 3D cinematography and comparatively realistic take on the Spider-Man universe. It was also another commercial success that paved the way to a sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, in 2014. However, in-between those films hitting theaters, Sony was spurred on by the success of The Avengers to try and expand the franchise into a full-blown shared universe. In addition to plotting out spinoffs like Venom, the studio set releases dates for both The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4 (in 2016 and 2018) well before the second film in the series had even released.
While The Amazing Spider-Man 2 wasn’t a commercial flop (it brought in $709 million at the box office), it earned less than its predecessor and drew the worst reviews for a Spider-Man movie yet, with critics and general audiences taking it to task for being overstuffed with story threads and characters meant to set-up future sequels and spinoffs (among other problems). So, rather than continuing The Amazing Spider-Man franchise and risking more diminishing returns on their cash cow, Sony decided to work out a deal with Marvel Studios to share the rights to Spider-Man and officially rebooted Peter Parker for the MCU in 2015, with Holland taking over in the role a year later in Captain America: Civil War.
Sinister Six
Prior to Sony striking a deal with Marvel Studios, the former was reported to be working on multiple spinoffs as part of The Amazing Spider-Man shared universe. The first two, Venom and Sinister Six, were announced in December 2013, with Alex Kurtzman attached to helm Venom and Drew Goddard writing Sinister Six with an eye on him directing it. Venom was later revived and re-imagined as part of what’s been dubbed the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters, and even has a sequel (Venom: Let There Be Carnage) scheduled to open in 2021. Sinister Six hasn’t been so lucky, though it’s heavily speculated Sony is building up to the super-villain crossover and will take a big step forward with next year’s Morbius movie (which is already confirmed to include a cameo by Michael Katon’s Vulture from the MCU). It’s possible Goddard could even be brought back into the fold, should this particular Spider-Man spinoff eventually come to pass.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/spiderman-movies-canceled-not-happen-reasons-explained/
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