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

9. Spider-Man And Spider-Man 2 Were Produced Pretty MuchBack-To-Back

It's rare for movies to be shot back to back, and pretty much unheard of in the superhero movie genre. However, long before Marvel and Warner Bros. had big plans of shooting epic two parters like Avengers: Infinity War and Justice League all in one go, Sam Raimi beat them to it. There was literally no break in development between Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2. While the actors had a small amount of time to go and do other films (Tobey Maguire did Seabiscuit and Kirsten Dunst squeezed in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Sam Raimi never stopped working. The production team continued working in order to get the sequel out by 2004, and producer Laura Sizkin revealed that she had only a week off between the two movies, while Raimi didn't have so much as a single day's break. Spider-Man 2 was released during a time when it was rare for sequels to be good, and between this unconventional production schedule and the aforementioned script issues, it's a miracle that it avoided being an unmitigated disaster! In fact so successful that Sony would later release a popular extended cut, Spider-Man 2.1. This featured eight minutes of new footage, including never before seen action beats. Spider-Man 2 in fact remains one of only a handful of superhero movies to get a Director's Cut!