In the early 2000s, a group of comic book fans created a curious petition to stop the release of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man.
Without a doubt, the first trilogy of spider-man It is one of the fundamental pillars of what is today the hollywood cinemaespecially one that borrows stories from the comics to develop them on the big screen. However, not everyone welcomed the project led by sam raimi and starring Tobey Maguire. In fact, there were some fans who even raised a petition to stop the release of Spider-Man for a reason as curious as it is passionate. Here the story.
A proposal that began to sound bad
In January 2000, sony pictures announced the production of one of the most important titles in the company’s history: an adaptation of the famous comic spider-man of Marvel by the director sam raimi. The film, the first time that peter parker and his heroic alter ego Spider Man would appear on the big screen, promised to resume the story and characters created by Stan Lee Y steve ditko and give them an epic twist.
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Unfortunately, some fans were disappointed when a version of the script was leaked to the press and it was reported that the friendly New Yorker neighbor wouldn’t use mechanical net shooters like in the comicsinstead, their cobwebs would grow organically from their wrists. It was a betrayal of character that some were unwilling to tolerate.
As the film prepared to begin filming, fans organized to ask Raimi to reconsider his decision. Even gathered signatures Y published a web page (www.no-organic-webshooters.com) where they exposed their annoyance and threatened to extend their complaints to Marvel and Sony.
The strange request that tried to stop the premiere of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man
Between 2000 and mid-2001, More than 5 thousand people supported the unusual petition against the first installment of Spider-Man. In the document, appropriately titled “Help Us Save Spider-Man,” the signatories explained that the film had “abandoned a 37-year tradition of existing fiction” with his “decision that throwing webs was a side effect of the radioactive spider bite that caused the character’s amazing powers.”
“Basically, they would be newly developed mutated glands located on his wrist capable of producing webs like those generated by arachnids. This is in direct contrast to the extraordinarily successful and well-received origin story, as Peter Parker created the webshooters out of his own genius.“, the page read.
“Mechanical web shooters are a testament to Peter Parker’s brilliance as a scientist. He was able to create the generator formula and its mechanics. This says a lot about the kind of hero he is and amplifies one of the main attributes of his personality: his genius“.
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It is noteworthy that the idea of get rid of mechanical net shooters was not an original proposal sam raimibecause it came from a draft script that james cameron worked for Marvel in the mid-90s. In fact, in a first look at the tape presented at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2001 saw Parker (played by Tobey Maguire) shooting webs from what appeared to be a technological device. Although the footage gave reassurance to those who had risen up on the internet, the final cut of the film forgot the fabrication.
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“When the fans found out I was going to do that, they tried to kick me out of the projectRaimi told Variety in 2022. “I was aware of (the protests) and it was not a good thing for me. I didn’t have a very good experience with the fans“.
Fortunately, Spider-Man’s first cinematic adventure was a success, both at the box office (with more than $800 million grossed worldwide) and critically. Fans also welcomed the film, despite the controversial change. Over time, the fight between the staunch fans and the person in charge of the 2002 film was relaxing until it became an idyll that today, more than 20 years after the premiere of Spider-Man, continues.
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