Long before Sony screwed the Spider-Man franchise up so badly that they were left with no other choice than to go crawling to Marvel Studios for their help, there existed two great (and one pretty terrible) movies featuring the iconic Marvel superhero. At the time, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies set the benchmark for visual effects in the genre - the image of a photo realistic Spidey swinging through New York City in 2002 was like nothing that had ever been seen before - and showed pretty much everyone how comic book movies should be done. Sure, they had their issues (more humour would have been nice, while Spider-Man 3 was...well, Spider-Man 3), but it's a series which deserves to be fondly remembered. Despite the success these movies found, what happened behind the scenes was chaotic to say the least. Between near recastings and a script for Spider-Man 2 that would have killed this franchise dead, the wall-crawler's first foray onto the big screen went far from smoothly. Let's take a look behind-the-scenes of the first Spider-Man trilogy, from the surprising reasons for its conception of the series to the real reason the studio decided to scrap it for good in 2010 (and all the crazy sh*t which happened inbetween)...
