10 Movies That Changed Hugely From The Trailers
6. Spider-Man
It perhaps shouldn't be terribly surprising that a movie as ground-breaking as Sam Raimi's Spider-Man went through many iterations even while deep into production.
The film's first teaser trailer infamously saw the web-slinger battling a gang of bank robbers who, while escaping in a helicopter, ended up webbed between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers.
In a spectacular feat of bad luck for Sony, the 9/11 attacks took place just a week after the trailer dropped, prompting the studio to pull the teaser and reportedly also remove the sequence from the final movie.
Sony has since stated that the scene was only ever intended to function as promotional material and not appear in the film itself, yet for those who saw the trailer before it was pulled, there was no reason not to believe it would be Spidey's introductory scene in the movie. It certainly felt of suitably cinematic quality and matched the goofy tone of Raimi's final film regardless.
But that's not all - early promo reels for the film meanwhile showed Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) wearing a custom-built web shooter rather than the controversial organic one in the final movie, as well as an alternate early design for the Spider-Man suit.
Other trailers even digitally superimposed Peter's final Spider-Man suit over the top of his low-fi prototype, clearly to imply that the final suit had more screen time than it actually did.
Thankfully the end result is a great movie in its own right, otherwise these changes might have, you know, actually bothered people.