Hey everyone and welcome to a new addition of What You Probably Didn't Know About. And this time I'll be telling you things you might not have known about 2002's Spider-Man. Let's get started.
1. Tobey Maguire has said that he never read a Spider-Man comic prior to the film. He took the role because he liked the script.
2. When Peter is doing sketches for concepts of his Spider-Man costume, one of his designs is based on the Marvel Comics' character Stingray.
3. David Fincher was asked to direct. For his vision of the film, Spider-Man's origin story would have been told during the opening credits and the film's story would have been based on "The Night Gwen Stacy Died."
4. Peter's possible costume designs were all drawn by Phil Jimenez, a comic book artist famous for drawing DC Comics' Wonder Woman.
5. It's the first Marvel movie to have the flipping page logo.
6. The reason why Sam Raimi was the popular choice with Sony is because he is an avid comic book collector when his not making films, his collection is over 25,000.
7. The first scene that was ever filmed for the movie was after the field-trip and Peter is starting to feel sick from his spider bite.
8. Tobey had to have his Spider-Man suit slightly remolded because the original suit wasn't exactly made for bathroom breaks. So the designers added a vent that'll allow him to perform without having to remove the suit completely.
9. By singing on for two more sequels, Tobey got himself a $26 million dollar paycheck.
10. The smoke in the lab during Osborn's transformation was originally white but was later digitally altered to look green. Sam Raimi originally wanted to use green smoke, but he had to go with the CG route because it was hard to create a colored smoke that was non-toxic.
11. Doctor Octopus was in the early drift of the script and was going to appear as the second bad guy. Later on in pre-production it was decided that he'll appear as a villain in Spider-Man 2.
12. During the Thanksgiving dinner scene, we seen that the enemies (Peter Parker/Spider-Man & Norman Osborn/Green Goblin) are wearing each other's colors. Peter is wearing a green shirt & purple tie, Norman a blue shirt & red tie. But did you ever notice that Harry (Norman's son/Peter's best friend) is wearing a mixture of both their colors? What with his blue jacket, green shirt, and red tie.
13. During the final fight between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin, at one point during filming Willem Dafoe accidentally clipped Tobey Maguire on the chin.
14. This shot of Spider-Man doing a long back-flip onto a car was only used in the trailer. What I mean is the shot in the trailer was altered to put Peter in his Spider-Man suit as suppose to his wrestling costume.
15. Originally Chris Columbus was offered to direct the movie but he decided to direct Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) instead.
16. Stan Lee's original cameo would have had him ask Peter Parker a question. That question being "Hey kid, would you like a pair of these glasses? They're the kind they wore in X-Men."
17. Speaking of X-Men, Hugh Jackman revealed he was suppose to have a cameo appearance in the movie. Jackman actually showed up in New York to the film the scene, but the entire plan had to be scrapped because the crew couldn't get access to the Wolverine costume from X-Men (2000).
18. The original teaser trailer had Spider-Man stop bank robbers who were making their get away in a helicopter. The final shot showed the helicopter tangled up in webs all while being suspended by the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, this would later be changed because of the September 11th, 2001 attack (aka 9/11).
So that's going to do it for me. Come back on Thursday, Jan 16th for a brand new Differences Between. This time I'll be telling you the differences between the book Ready Player One and the movie also titled Ready Player One. Until then enjoy the rest of your day.
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