10 Things You Need To Know About Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 4

5. It Could've Been 3D

A lot of that is conjecture, however. The nature of big budget Hollywood productions -€“ especially ones that don't wind up getting made €“- is that they go through countless different permutations before you reach the finished product. The Vanderbilt script could've been totally bloated and involved all of the above rumoured antagonists; they could also have all existed separately, in different drafts of scripts and pitches.

Regardless of that, what is known for sure of the entire debacle surrounding Spider-Man 4's collapse, cancellation, and abandonment by everyone involved -€“ necessitating a total franchise reboot €“- suggests that the production was a bit of a mess. Too much going on. A lot of pressure.

So the decision that they would shoot in 3D couldn't have helped matters. It's unclear if they actually knew for sure that's the road they were going down, but Sony wanted to get on that Avatar gravy train, even if it would add six months to the already strained schedule.