James Cameron's take on the material was more informed by those previous scripts than the actual source material, his scriptment being mostly devoid of original ideas and mostly just a fusing together of a bunch of previous ideas Carolco had been floating. He was the original mash-up artist! Except instead of complimenting beats, it was sort of a mess of bad ideas. That included the organic web-shooters and villain trying to convince Spidey to join his mutant master race, which appeared in an earlier treatment by Leslie Stevens, creator of The Outer Limits, an even lower-budget, horror-tinged take to be helmed by Tobe Hooper; electrical storms and weird natural disasters came from the original screenplay; and the Neil Ruttenberg screenplay involved a Dark Knight Rises-esque attack on the Stock Exchange. All of those got thrown into the mix with Cameron's take. A surprising amount of that mish-mash scriptment turned up in Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man film, too: the confrontation between Peter and school bully Flash in Raimi's movie was storyboarded in the Cameron version and looks identical, and the organic web-shooters thing was carried over.