10 Failed Alternatives To Upcoming Comic Book Movies

6. James Cameron's Spider-Man

Upcoming Film: Sony / Marvel's Spider-Man. Director: Drew Goddard (2017) Alternative Films: Cannon Film's Spider-Man / Spider-Man. Directors: Tobe Hooper / James Cameron For every moan and groan over the treatment of Venom or Electro in the Spidey films to date, things could have turned out far worse... In the 1980s, Marvel was heading towards bankruptcy and the rights to its big characters were doing the rounds. Cannon Films bought the rights to Spider-Man for a bargain $225,000, even though they had no idea what Spider-Man was. The studio envisioned Spider-Man as a Hammer horror creature and Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Tobe Hooper was hired. The plot would have centred around Peter Parker turning into an eight-armed tarantula monster fighting other mutants in a government laboratory. Makes Spider-Man 3 seem like Shakespeare doesn't it? On a slightly more positive scale, James Cameron got his hands on Spider-Man in 1992, shortly after Carolco Pictures failed to develop a Spider-Man film featuring Doc Ock as the villain. Ignoring this script, Cameron decided to to turn Peter Parker into a foul mouthed, pervert teenager spying on Mary Jane in her underwear and having sex with her on the Brooklyn Bridge. Electro would have made an appearance as a business man who rapes a woman, kills her and brings her back to life with his powers. Teaming up with Sandman, he would then have attempted to coerce Spider-Man into joining their gang, a 'master race of mutants'. Okay... so not quite so positive after all. Both projects died, allowing Sam Raimi and Marc Webb to bring their interpretations of Spider-Man to the big screen. Even the worst elements of their Spider-Man films are arguably better then anything that might have come out of Hooper and Cameron's failed attempts.