Spider-Man: 10 Dumbest Ideas Sony Had For The Franchise Before Teaming With Marvel

9. A Spider-Man For A Millennial Audience

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Say what you will about The Amazing Spider-Man movies, but there's no denying that Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker was a bit of a tool. He promised Captain George Stacy - who lay dying in his arms - that he would leave Gwen be, only to later tell her that rules are there to be broken.

Sony realised that this version of Spider-Man wasn't exactly the most accessible, so decided that the next version should appeal to millennials. Apparently, youngsters use "N.B.D." ("No Big Deal") on social media to describe doing yoga and veganism, and the studio wanted to emphasise that everything is "N.B.D." to Spidey too.

Spider-Man's movements are "beautiful," so Sony fancied tying that into the Electronic Dance Music craze... providing they could find a "killer DJ." At the time, Snapchat had introduced its "Story" function and the studio also wanted the web-slinger to get in on that because the hero's Snapchat circle "would be huge, and very buzzworthy and cool."

This totally sounds like the kind of Spider-Man movie middle-aged people would make thinking it appeals to teenagers. It would would have been a complete disaster.

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