Cameron's Spider-Man - storyboarded!

[Kevin Roegele]

http://dantom.altervista.org/spider_ing_script.html

 

[Kargo Warrior]

Holly crap i'm up to the 4 chapter and it's getting better and better.....I really like how he discovers his powers just like in the comics...that's really great,not going on to a dark alley and starting to climb on the wall all of a sudden.

Also Electro's introduction was awesome...''he has the touch of Midas''...pure awesomeness.

 

[Swordmaster]

So far it's really good. Fairly unfaithful in terms of the villains, but the Peter/Spidey character is spot on.

 

[Green Goblin 1964]

So far it's really good. Fairly unfaithful in terms of the villains, but the Peter/Spidey character is spot on.

Agreed, I was a bit angry on what they were thinking with the villains but Peter is straight out of the comics for sure

 

[Web-Head408]

I accually enjoyed this script, i've seen this site before, I really wish the movie was made, it would have made a lot of money for sure.t:

 

[hammerhedd11]

It was really unfaithful with the villains but it was still really good. They could've switched Electro with the GG to make it more faithful. I like the movie we got better tho.

 

[JerseyJoker]

I like how some how some are you saying this version would of done better, even though i respect James Camerons work and whats hes done for movies in general, i never liked his ideas for Spider-Man.

Yeah, how Peter descovers his powers is more comic booky (if that was a word), but the rest is jsut bad. Peter acting macho and cursing, the sexual undertones of the story with MJ, making it seem a bit like a SIn City novel, then Spidey. Plus he strays WAY off with the villians, doing what he wanted.

I love the movie we got instead, much more. I dont get why everyone is like Raimi wasn't the best choice, he was and is the best choice to bring Spidey to the theaters and i can't think of anyone else for the job.

 

[Catman]

James Cameron's Spider-Man would have been different but VERY INTERESTING! The same can be said about Tim Burton's Superman.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I like how some how some are you saying this version would of done better, even though i respect James Camerons work and whats hes done for movies in general, i never liked his ideas for Spider-Man.

Yeah, how Peter descovers his powers is more comic booky (if that was a word), but the rest is jsut bad. Peter acting macho and cursing, the sexual undertones of the story with MJ, making it seem a bit like a SIn City novel, then Spidey. Plus he strays WAY off with the villians, doing what he wanted.

I love the movie we got instead, much more. I dont get why everyone is like Raimi wasn't the best choice, he was and is the best choice to bring Spidey to the theaters and i can't think of anyone else for the job.

You realise that the Spider-Man movie we got IS based on the James Cameron version you just read?

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Also guys, check out the commentary section, there is an article on there - What if James Cameron made Spider-Man in 1992? - that I wrote for the Hype! aaaaaaaages ago.

 

[Mister J]

Interesting stuff. I had actually never bothered to read the Cameron treatment before. I believe audiences would have responded to it, but I prefer what we got in 2002. It's a bit too dark in some places and I'd like a different version of Electro. On a side note, there's no way I could have seen that web scene with Spidey and MJ and not laughed near-uncontrollably in the theater.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

On a side note, there's no way I could have seen that web scene with Spidey and MJ and not laughed near-uncontrollably in the theater.

No way?

What if I was holding a gun to your head?

 

[Mister J]

That might bring about a fit of hysteria and a resultant nervous laughter that was unable to control.

The best bet would be to get a theater usher to shine his flashlight at me while I was laughing. Those things induce instant silence.

 

[Batspider77]

I still hope Cameron will get his Hand on a Spiderman Movie some Day.

 

[The Shredder]

I have no doubt that if Cameron's Spider-Man would have been given the greenlight, and premiered in the summer of 1993 (which I believe was the original set date according to an old 1995 movie magazine article that dealt with the film's complications back then), that the film would have not only been accepted by the general audiences, but would have been a huge hit as well. People have been starved for a Spidey film for years, and Raimi just so happened to be the guy to finally present one back in the summer of 2002. Needless to say, it would have been little different in '93 with Cameron at the helm.

 

[DarthDaveBanner]

Meh. I love Cameron . . . but that script (while being miles better than the "okeydokey Ock" treatment) just isn't a spidey movie. It's more of a by-the-numbers action film that just happens to have him as the protagonist. Raimi's vision was as perfect as you can get, people need to realise this.


I mean come on - Sandman's name is Boyd????? He has no less than two real names in the comic so why the hell did Cameron just invent a new one?
And Electro-Strand? Please.

 

[Venom 1988]

Raimi's vision was as perfect as you can get, people need to realise this.

Ha! no. While Raimis spidey movies are great, there nowhere near perfect. And I really doubt there as perfect as we can get.

 

[Jick]

yeah I didn't like this Boyd thing, too.
I'm in part V.

 

[DarthDaveBanner]

And Spidey should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever EVER say motherf*****!

 

[Jick]

done. I read.
and it's horrible.
thank God this didn't become a movie.
I'm glad with what Raimi did. God bless you, Raimi.

 

[Abaddon]

Not done reading, but I really don't like the way Ben and May are presented as ineffective parents. And where's the responsibility speech?


I did however enjoy the first act. The stuff with the fruit flies was more believable to me then what we actually got. And the scene where he wakes up sticky is hilarious. The tone is definitely more mature and it could've used some more of the levity and fun that Raimi gave. And there are too many unnecessary name changes. What can't Flash's last name be Thompson? Ridiculous.

 

[Drizzle]

Well, that was an interesting read. A lot of the scenarios are familiar from the Raimi film, like the organic webbing, Uncle Ben being shot dead on the street and the end scene of him swinging away. The villains are used pretty good, but they could have at least used Electro's and Sandman's real names. But I thought Cameron had planned on using Doc Ock? The weirdest moments were the sex scene and Spidey dropping a few f-bombs.

 

[DarthDaveBanner]

All of the good things about this script were taken and used in Raimi's films.

 

[Fried Gold]

He lifts it, revealing a sticky, white mass completely covering him...

LOL

 

[Batspider77]

This was only Cemerons first draft he would have changed a lot of things....theres another Cameron script on the Net wherer the Villans are Dock Ock and Green Goblin,it also has the Classic Dead of Gwen in it.