Throughout the history of cinema, few superheroes have had as much influence on audiences as Spider Man, Spider-Man has always been a very prominent character in the comics, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that the rage fully erupted with film adaptations of Spider-Man. Sam Raimi.
Before Raimi, however, another director was keen to make an unusual Peter Parker film: James Cameron, Together with the production company Carolco Pictures, the director was planning this film which never came to fruition. Sketch Very interesting Spider-Man keys that have been discovered recently.
James Cameron’s illustrations for the never-made Spider-Man movie pic.twitter.com/ilsYkYkwYV
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through the book of Tech Noir: The Art of James Cameron, we’ve been able to discover the early sketch that the American director had to bring Peter Parker to the big screen. For those who don’t know, it was rumored that this film is going to star Leonardo Dicaprio and would include villains that were introduced later in the films, such as Sandman or Electro.
And though it sounds like something we’d like to see, James Cameron had plans first. get away from the entire comic book universe, a much more adult Peter Parker and making a film where sex scenes were prevalent on several occasions. Such was the craziness that Cameron wanted to do that that he even created a scene in which Parker tries to woo Mary Jane with dancing spiders.