True Story Of The 8 Best Spider-Man Movies Never Made

3. 2015 - The Amazing Spider-Man 3: Resurrection

The Amazing Spider Man
Columbia Pictures

When that reboot finally hit cinemas in the form of Andrew Garfield's The Amazing Spider-Man, it did quite well. It wasn't met with an overwhelmingly positive reception, but it was well-liked, and Sony pushed ahead with a sequel.

However, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ended the reboot series just as it was getting going. Victims of their own ambition, Sony had stuffed the movie with countless subplots and villains, intent on following Marvel Studios' model of an interconnected cinematic universe. Instead, the studio produced an overcooked mess, and while it performed well financially, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was disliked by fans.

Consequently, a third film - which had already been dated for 2016 - was never made.

If it had gone ahead though, it would've been rather... strange. Chris Cooper - who played Norman Osborn in the second film - told CBR that The Amazing Spider-Man 3 would've featured his character's "head in a box", while Captain Stacy actor Denis Leary revealed that the sequel would follow Spider-Man attempting to "regenerate" people in his life that had died. Weird? Sure. But Sony is capable of making Oscar-winning Spider-Man movies, so they could've made this work.

Along with the third entry, Sony also dated a fourth, scheduled to hit cinemas in 2018. Instead of pushing ahead though, the studio - shaken by that aforementioned negative response - inked a deal with Marvel Studios and Disney in 2015, launching Spidey into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where he resides to this day.

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