8 Scrapped Movie Plots That Turned Up In Other Films

6. Spider-Man’s Organic Web-Shooters Pre-Dated Raimi’s Films

2002’s Spider-Man got a lot of things right about the webslinger...except for the literal web-slinging ability. In the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, Peter Parker does not have to rely on web-shooters (and therefore web fluid), but instead he is able to shoot his own organic webs from his wrists as just another perk of being bitten by a genetically modified spider.

While many people pointed blame on screenwriter David Koepp for implementing the organic web-shooters, this was actually a holdover from the screenplay originally written by Avatar, Terminator, Aliens, and Titanic filmmaker, James Cameron. Cameron, along with a handful of his writing buddies, planned for Spidey to have organic web-slinging abilities.

When interviewed, Raimi explained this decision because he thought it would distance the audience from Peter Parker too much if he was such a science wiz that he could design his own mechanical web-shooters and webbing. This decision went back to the Cameron script, plus that it would just be too much more to lump into the origin story that Parker would have to tinker around with designing the gadgets.

Cameron’s script wasn’t even the first. Even the earliest, pre-Cameron script featured organic webs.