After Sam Raimi’S Spider-Man 4 the film was scrapped, Sony Pictures began receiving proposals from directors for a reboot and David Fincher he was one of the directors who intervened to present his proposal. Obviously the proposal didn’t go very well because Fincher never managed to make his film.
The story he wanted to tell would skip the origin story of Peter Parker transforming into Spider-Man and focus on the story involving Gwen Stacy’s death. He wanted to tell the origin story in a ten-minute one-shot sequence that would take the audience through Peter Parker’s entire backstory.
His proposal, however, was rejected, because the studio really wanted a retelling of the origin story, but Fincher thought it was “stupid”. During an interview with The Guardian, Fincher talked about the talk of him picking up Peter Parker as an adult, but said, “They weren’t fucking interested.” He added:
“And I understood. They were like, ‘Why would you want to dig into the origin story?’ And I was like: ‘[because] Is he stupid?” That origin story means a lot of things to a lot of people, but I looked at it and thought, “A red and blue spider?” There are a lot of things I can do with my life and this isn’t really one of them. .”
Fincher directed Panic Room instead, which was fantastic! But I think Fincher would have made a really good and unique Spider-Man movie. The director had previously spoken about the version of the Marvel film of Spider-Man that he wanted to make, saying:
“My impression of what Spider-Man might be is very different from Sam’s [Raimi] did or what Sam wanted to do. I think the reason he directed that movie was because he wanted to be a Marvel Comics superhero. I’ve never been interested in the Genesis story. I couldn’t get over a boy bitten by a red and blue spider. It was just a problem… It wasn’t something I felt I could do in a straightforward way. I wanted to start with Gwen Stacy and the Green Goblin and I wanted to kill Gwen Stacy.
“The title sequence of the movie I was going to do was going to be ten minutes, basically a music video, an opera, which was going to be the one shot that would take you through the entire Peter Parker [backstory]. Bitten by a radioactive spider, the death of Uncle Ben, the loss of Mary Jane and… [then the movie] it would start with Peter meeting Gwen Stacy. It was something very different, it wasn’t the story of a teenager. He was much more of a boy who got used to becoming a monster.”
In the end, Fincher didn’t really need Spider-Man on his resume. He is doing very well making great films. Would you have liked to see Fincher make his own Spider-Man movie?
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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