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James Cameron’s Ideas for Spider-Man had Major Influence Over Sam Raimi’s Trilogy


Spider-Man fans might not know it, but before Sam Raimi developed his Spider-Man trilogy, Avatar and Terminator director James Cameron was once lined up to direct Sony's first Spider-Man film franchise.

Over the years, the breakdown of Cameron's ideas for his Spider-Man trilogy have made their way online, offering fans some wall-crawling material to go through in their spare time. Interestingly enough, it seems like a few of Cameron's ideas for Peter Parker had some influence over Raimi's Spider-Man movies.

Speaking in an interview with IGN,Spider-Man screenwriter David Koepp decided to open up about a few secrets to Sam Raimi's trilogy, and one of those secrets was how Cameron's Spider-Man movie pitch had influenced the director's movies about everyone's favorite Marvel superhero.

It wasn't just a minor influence too – it seems like Cameron's treatment for the Spider-Man movie had helped shaped the future of the hero and perhaps, of the comic book movie genre.

"I had a lot of my own specific thoughts about what the movie ought to be because I had been a Spider-Man fan as a kid and young adult," Koepp said. "But [Cameron's] treatment, it just took it seriously. It took Peter seriously as a character and it took a superhero movie seriously as a genre. And you hadn't seen that before.

"This was 2000 and 2001 when I was writing (Spider-Man) and there hadn't been a good superhero movie since probably the second Batman. X-Men was still yet to come... The fact that he had written this 85 or whatever it was pages treatment, that in itself was really meaningful and said, no, no, take this seriously. This is a real movie with real people in it."

That's some pretty big news. If Cameron hadn't given his pitch for Spider-Man the series treatment, then perhaps we would still be going through childish and cartoonish comic book movies instead of the big blockbusters that we have today.

The next Spider-Man movie is being developed by Marvel and is set for release on November 5, 2021.

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