Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Had Fun Roles For Tom Cruise And James Cameron

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse had a lot of big cameo appearances, though some big names were kept pretty much a secret until the film finally premiered. However, what Spider-Man fans don't know is that two of the biggest Hollywood A-list names were set to appear in Sony's animated superhero movie – that was until their parts we're cut during the film's production.

Promoting the upcoming home release of Into the Spider-Verse in an interview with Slash Film, the animated feature's directors, Rodney Rothman, Peter Ramsey, and Bob Persichetti were asked about the special features of the movie's home edition. The question centered around the film's "Alternate Universe Mode," a 2.5 hour long cut of Into the Spider-Verse littered with a whole lot of alternate and deleted scenes.

According to the directors, this new home release feature is going to give fans a glimpse of the A-listers that were cut off from the movie – Mission Impossible's Tom Cruise and Avatar director James Cameron.

"There's a lot of stuff to that version, stuff that we took out of the movie for good reasons, but that give you a window into the creative process behind the years that were spent on the movie," Rothman said. "So an example of stuff they are talking about… There's a line from Doc Ock that's a very direct reference to Doc Ock's most famous line in Spider-Man 2. Is the Tom Cruise stuff in the alternate universe version? So there was a whole period of time where Miles rather than learning about being Spider-man from a comic book learned it from watching the films. There was a movie version of a movie about Spider-Man in Miles universe about the real person Spider-Man, but it was a James Cameron directed movie with Tom Cruise as Spidey. Yes. Spidey. And it was James Cameron and Spidey and Tom Cruise on the audio."

This is a fun new reveal. Apparently, Cruise was supposed to play a fictional actor named Todd Crews, one that starred as Spider-Man in a fictional movie in the universe of Into the Spider-Verse. Cameron was supposed to play the director of the film providing audio commentary track on the Blu-Ray.

In this alternate version of the film, Miles learns how to become Spidey from the DVD showed to him rather than by himself with comic books.

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse will be available on Blu-Ray on March 19.

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