Son of Coul
Not 100% A Dick
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Didn't see anything like this and figured if people actually know about/have read old scripts it'd be fun to go through some.
I'm halfway through reading the '93 James Cameron draft for Spider-Man and oh lawd is the dialogue just awful. Especially for Doc Ock, whose character is completely bizarre, doing things like screaming "Okey! Dokey!" during intense experiments in a way that can only be read as orgasmic. The only saving grace is knowing that they were allegedly considering Arnold Schwarzenegger in the role, which makes reading the lines in his voice very entertaining.
Peter's character also feels very wrong; he's courting a girl named Liz but is only thwarted by her dating Flash - otherwise they're on good terms and his social life generally seems pretty normal, even having acquaintance girls openly flirt with him. Harry, conversely, is a painfully socially awkward weirdo who pushes Peter to hit on any girl in sight. He's essentially the nerdy sidekick to the average, sort-of-somewhat-down-on-his-luck lead archetype - who's inappropriately Peter in this. Aunt May has a one-track mind on Peter getting a girlfriend, responding to anything else in a near-braindead fashion. Uncle Ben's pretty cool so far, still haven't got to his death yet.
Overall, I'm just surprised Cameron was supposedly really into making this and was involved in the script, since it reads like some hired gun scrapped it together in a day, plugging in the tropes they've heard about in comics.
So I don't expect this to take off, but what have you guys read and had strong reactions to or wanted to share info about? Like the old Iron Man script with the main villain being Howard Stark as War Machine? Or anything on the cancelled Batman Triumphant movie? I think we all know Kevin Smith's story about his BTS experience on the Tim Burton Superman film, anything else like that?
I'm halfway through reading the '93 James Cameron draft for Spider-Man and oh lawd is the dialogue just awful. Especially for Doc Ock, whose character is completely bizarre, doing things like screaming "Okey! Dokey!" during intense experiments in a way that can only be read as orgasmic. The only saving grace is knowing that they were allegedly considering Arnold Schwarzenegger in the role, which makes reading the lines in his voice very entertaining.
Peter's character also feels very wrong; he's courting a girl named Liz but is only thwarted by her dating Flash - otherwise they're on good terms and his social life generally seems pretty normal, even having acquaintance girls openly flirt with him. Harry, conversely, is a painfully socially awkward weirdo who pushes Peter to hit on any girl in sight. He's essentially the nerdy sidekick to the average, sort-of-somewhat-down-on-his-luck lead archetype - who's inappropriately Peter in this. Aunt May has a one-track mind on Peter getting a girlfriend, responding to anything else in a near-braindead fashion. Uncle Ben's pretty cool so far, still haven't got to his death yet.
Overall, I'm just surprised Cameron was supposedly really into making this and was involved in the script, since it reads like some hired gun scrapped it together in a day, plugging in the tropes they've heard about in comics.
So I don't expect this to take off, but what have you guys read and had strong reactions to or wanted to share info about? Like the old Iron Man script with the main villain being Howard Stark as War Machine? Or anything on the cancelled Batman Triumphant movie? I think we all know Kevin Smith's story about his BTS experience on the Tim Burton Superman film, anything else like that?
Jack Black is worse. 
