It’s well known among movie fans that David Fincher was once on the shortlist of names Sony eyed to direct 2000’s Spider-Man. The job eventually went to someone else — some guy named Raimi — and the world was deprived of the cold, clinical, unnervingly misogynist Spider-Man it so rightfully deserved. Today we were given a more detailed glimpse of Fincher’s abandoned plans for the Web-Crawler, courtesy of the folks at io9. Because why talk to a legendary director about the myriad fascinating films he has made when you can talk about that one superhero movie he didn’t?
Here’s the juiciest snippet:
The title sequence of the movie that I was going to do was going to be a ten minute — basically a music video, an opera, which was going to be the one shot that took you through the entire Peter Parker [backstory]. Bit by a radio active spider, the death of Uncle Ben, the loss of Mary Jane, and [then the movie] was going to begin with Peter meeting Gwen Stacy. It was a very different thing, it wasn’t the teenager story. It was much more of the guy who’s settled into being a freak.”
So he wanted to kill both Mary Jane and Gwen Stacy? Yep, sounds like Fincher all right.
Source: io9
David Fincher’s latest film, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, opens everywhere tomorrow, December 21, 2011. Click below for more photos of the director:
