Ok, here it is, regardless of what I said about witholding it until it's final form in my last post. This is the (very) unfinished draft of just under half of the script summary. It appears long in typed up form, but naturally, it would be alot different should it be edited together in this imaginary film of mine, so think in those terms. It isnt finished, since the rest simply wasn't good enough to type up in my view, but what you have here I'm fairly happy with, happy enough to share for now at least. When it comes to typing the whole thing, completed, polished and ready, I will have redone this whole section to read nice and flow nicer as a narrative. But for now, here you are...
First Act:
Set in High-School, Peter is once again the nerd-loser archetype, picked on by the in-crowd who consist of arrogant jock Flash Thompson, and the well-to do Harry Osborn. It is clear however that it is only at Flash's encouragement that Harry reluctantly involves himself in the bullying, just as Liz secretly holds a crush for Pete, seemingly attracted to his intellect. Likewise, Pete has a minor crush on Flash's girlfriend, appearing to be truly the only one to understand that Liz does not really want to be with Flash. Peter finds solace in Science, as well as gaining exemplary marks in school, in physics and chemistry, Pete has a fully functioning homemade lab in his bedroom, and where he conducts minor experiments outside of his academic career.
Now to Harry, the rich kid, son to up-and-coming industrialist Norman Osborne, owner of Oscorpe, a multi-million dollar industry, specializing in cutting edge Science. Norman however has his fingers in many dirty little pies, the least of which isn’t his involvement in warfare manufacture. In this area, we catch brief glimpses of battle amour suits and prototype, in-development aerial-gliders. Norman Osborne is seen as cold, calculating, cerebral and interested in only money, his company and his son’s success in the financial field. We see that through Norman’s cold and careless treatment of his son, Harry's resulting behavior towards Peter is increased.
Back at home with the loving Aunt May and avuncular and charming Uncle Ben, Peter lives out his life, usually tucked away in his room, working on experiments, or helping out his Uncle keep the homestead together, painting the fence, fixing the roof, that kind of stuff. One morning, when Pete wakes for school, he notices a beautiful redheaded girl moving in next door, she is carrying in boxes. She is stunning, angelic, foxy and completely unobtainable to Pete, who is completely blown away by her mere presence. Aunt May says she is niece to Aunt Anna, the next-door neighbor and is moving in to live with her after having left her abusive and mistreating Father. Pete also learns that she will be new at attending Pete's school, apparently pursuing a Drama course. Pete thinks he may have found a kindred spirit in Mary Jane, although he is still scared-stiff of the notion in even trying to pursue her, he believes that they share something in common in their similar family set-ups.
Back at school, Pete is going about his regular routine, dodging the name calling that he all to often has to endure, picking out the bits of rolled up paper that gets spat into his hair, the regular bullying. Sitting down to class, he begins to warrant some surprising attention from Liz, the girl he has always had a minor crush on. Liz flirts with Peter, at first asking him for some extra tuition, but it is all over to soon, when Liz's boyfriend, Flash, notices Pete, and takes it as a move-in on his girl. Flash proceeds to roll up his sleeves to defend his machismo honor ("Hitting on my girl, huh Parker!?") that sort of thing. Pete reluctantly obliges for a round of fisticuffs, but only because he notices MJ looking on at the brewing conflict from across the class, Pete is so desperate to prove he can hold his own to this girl, and to impress her, somehow, that he engages in a fight with Flash. Feigning a confidence he does not at all feel. He. Gets. OWNED! Pete gets a bloodied nose and black eye for his troubles, right in front of MJ, Liz, and the entire Science block. The ultimate embarrassment.
Pete is nursing his wounds outside the school, alone, when someone sits down next to him. It's MJ! Pete's immediate reaction is to run away, or expect a verbal onslaught similar to what Flash regularly bombard Pete with. Instead, she is kind, humouress, and encouraging. She tells Pete that she knows she moved in next door to him and his Aunt and Uncle, and that he was trying to impress her back at the school. She offers him advice, saying that he only needs to be himself, and do what he wants to do in life, whether some think his nerdish for it or not. These words encourage Pete to give up the attempt at putting on a 'dashing' pretense, and go back to being himself. He decides to attend an out of school science symposium on the way home, still on the high of having his geek-lifestyle validated by the new hottie in school!
At the Science-symposium, Pete watches on in a crowd of like-minded people, as the Professor demonstrates a radiation experiment of some kind. Prying from his backpack his camera, he snaps photos of the experiment, all the while, a tiny, tinny little spider has been doused with radiation from the experiment, (and in a very similar fashion to SM-1) the spider descends by web onto Pete's hand as he snaps the photos. Someone calls out to stop taking photo's, Pete stops, apologizes, and then the spider BITES! Pete drops the camera in the immediate pain he feels as a result, smashing the lens, and he observes the bite on his hand. Immediately feeling a little odd and embarrassed, Pete picks up his camera and hastily makes off from the symposium.
Back to Harry, he arrives home at his house from school, not the lab that we were introduced to last time. The house is much similar to the one we saw in SM-1, Normans home would make even the finest most expensive penthouse sweet ashamed. When Harry arrives home, he finds Norman in his office, having a meeting with someone. Harry doesn’t know who it is, although he recognizes him vaguely. The man his father is speaking to is stout, has a bowel haircut, and is perhaps the epitome of a fat, aging geek. His name is Dr Otto Octavius, renowned scientist and experimenter of the new, cutting edge Smart Arms (yeah, I borrowed the name from SM-2). Norman is meeting with Otto to attempt a contractual agreement allowing them both to work together. In reality, Norman wants to buy-out Otto's invention, and couldn't care less about 'a meeting of the minds'. Norman introduced Harry to Dr Octavius, and Harry is particular unimpressed, resulting in nasty scolding from his Father. Here we also see the first signs of how particularly nasty and unpleasant Octavius is, through and through. He speaks rudely of Harry's privileged upbringing, and compares it to his own, abusive childhood. Otto is rude, obnoxious, bitter and arrogant, as well as caring for next to nothing but his work. Harry remembers that Peter is a particular fan of Otto's reported work, and that’s how he remembers him.
Meanwhile, Pete is struggling to make his way home, he feels...different. Almost reborn. Something has been born in him, a power, a gift. On the way home, he stops while crossing the road, puts his hand to his head and feels a fever, failing to see the oncoming bus, which is hurtling at deadly speed towards him. Suddenly, something in his subconscious alerts him, a type of…”sense”, he immediately and instinctively leaps out of harms way...and lands attached to the side of a building six stories up! He is climbing a wall! He can’t believe it. He gets to the top, and discovers he can leap fantastic heights, climb some more, sense stuff, jump, and climb again! Amazing! It takes little time in the knowledge of such powers that the Spider bite must have been a gift in disguise. On the way home, Pete takes the city top route, leaping, jumping and crawling over the buildings of New York, until he notices something…Flash Thompson is driving home with Liz, in his top-down car, Pete can hear him bragging about beating on Peter, and although Liz looks particularly unimpressed, Pete begins to think of his potential now as a fighter with his new powers! Putting the thought on hold for now, Pete drops down into a nearby alley, and plans to continue home, until he is forced to stop and look at a poster, tacked to a wall, advertising something. Amateur talent needed, it reads, advertising for any amateur wrestlers/fighters who feel confident enough to step into the ring with some of the best muscle New York has to offer. Pete gets an idea…?
END OF ACT ONE:
Second Act:
These scenes are inter-spliced. Almost like an extended montage.
Back to Otto Octavius, who is hard at work in his lab (at an undisclosed location at this point). He is moving through the lab, with a cocky and unsurpassable arrogance. His assistances and advisors read out the safely precautions to him, concerning his experiments, and he simply throws it back in their faces, caring not for his own or anybody’s safety. Strapping himself into his tentacle arms, Octavius proceeds to delicately, gently, and carefully maneuver them by use of the touch-sensitive control panel that controls the arms on a computer terminal. In one scene, Otto becomes so fed up with his assistant’s insistence on safety and protocol that he uses one of the arms to thrash out and grab the scientist’s wrist, breaking it, as a warning.
Back at the Parker household, Peter is hard at work in his room. He is tinkering with some sort of contraption at his workstation. The device is a pair of wrist attachments, which Pete has engineered to shoot a strong, sticky web like substance, for use in concordance with his newly gifted powers. The web shooters just like a spiders!
Scene of Otto Octavius, we see him get a lot more skilled with his tentacle arms. He starts to mix chemicals using his tentacles in the lab, we see the brilliance of his mind as he uses his tentacles to jot down formulas of unimaginable complexity on the blackboard, he scolds and humiliates his associates for not understanding, as he knocks the papers and notes from their grasp in frustration. We see Octavius sitting in a chair, smoking a cigar, in the other hand, he is drawing an eye patch and vampire fangs on a picture of Einstein.
Parker’s room, we see him cutting up fabrics, throwing different clothes together, painting symbols shirts, stitching. Creating for himself some sort of costume.
We end the montage on Peter putting the finishing touches to his costume in his bedroom, when he notices in the window across from his, next door, Mary Jane, sitting on her bed. The sight of her beauty distracts Pete, but then he see’s that she is crying. Pete stops what he is doing and takes notice. He tries to stay out of sight, until the sound of her phone ringing makes him jump. MJ composes herself and answers the phone, it’s a friend from school, and from the complete change of tone in her voice and demeanor, and you’d think she was a different person. She is chatting away like any other girl, laughing, gossiping. Peter notices her turn to the window and he quickly shuts the curtains. It isn’t long before there is a knock on the door, and Peter, hurriedly concealing his devices and newly tailored garb, greets his Uncle into the room. Uncle Ben wants to speak to Peter about the fight he got into with Flash Thompson at school. Uncle Ben tells Pete of power, responsibility, and gives him those wise words, which have become gospel in Spider Man folklore.
The next day at School, Peter learns of Dr Otto Octavius planned experiment, for those who will be graduating to Empire State University physics, a special test demonstration at his personnel lab will demonstrate his cutting edge mechanical arm prototype, and the atomic field of research he himself is conducting.
