15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy

11. Black Cat, Green Goblin, And The Lizard Were Going To Be In Spider-Man 2

Talking of crowded movies, the near perfect Spider-Man 2 very nearly went the same way as its follow-up. When the co-creators of the unsatisfactory Smallville were brought in to write the screenplay for the sequel, the draft which Sony were given - which David Koepp had also taken a crack at at that point - included Doctor Octopus, The Lizard, Black Cat, and the Harry Osborn version of Green Goblin. Michael Chabon later simplified things by dropping three of those villains, but still made some controversial changes to the source material. Doctor Octopus would have been the same age as Peter Parker and been involved with a love triangle with Mary Jane Watson. It gets worse though, as he was also going to be revealed as the creator of the spider that bit Peter, and after the accident which fused those tentacles to him, he would decide to try and cure himself by... stealing Peter Parker's spine. Really. As you can imagine, Sam Raimi wasn't in the least bit pleased with what he was seeing and completely rewrote the script with Alvin Sargent. While the trio above earned story credits, it's pretty clear that very little of what they envisioned for Spider-Man ended up in the sequel.