10 Unmade Comic Book Movies That Could Have Been Awesome

The title 'James Cameron's Spider-Man' alone would have been enough to guarantee a massive box office hit and while the writer/director's 57-page treatment is most definitely not your average Spider-Man story, Cameron has made a career out of being written off only to make some of the most successful blockbusters in history.

What makes it so different from the six Spider-Man movies we've seen over the last fifteen years? The heavy use of profanity for one, that would have likely earned an R-rating. Then there are the heavy-handed puberty metaphors and scenes of Spidey spying on Mary Jane as she gets undressed, with the two ultimately having sex on top of the Brooklyn Bridge in the third act after he sweet-talks her by describing the mating rituals of various spiders. No, really.

Casting reports had named Leonardo DiCaprio as a potential Peter Parker, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Otto Octavius (just think of the octopus puns!) and in a spot of genius, R. Lee Ermey as Jonah Jameson before the sh*tshow that was Carolco Pictures during the 1990s found themselves buried under a ton of legal and financial issues and the project fell apart.

The rough treatment needed a lot of work as it had the potential to alienate a huge number of fans, but as one of the most ambitious and innovative filmmakers around there's no doubt that Cameron would have made a Spider-Man movie loaded with spectacular action and groundbreaking visual techniques.