Prior to the current MCU and DCEU, the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man films were a huge part of setting the stage for the average moviegoer’s obsession with the superhero genre. While we did get a trilogy, David Koepp recently sat down with Collider to talk about his original plans for a trilogy. Things didn’t work out for Koepp and his team, so his vision for the sequel to 2002’s Spider-Man and a third movie never came to fruition. Luckily though, we now have insight of what those films might have looked like:
“Basically [my trilogy idea] was the telling of the Gwen Stacey/Harry Osbourne story but I spaced everything out differently. I wanted Gwen to be killed in the middle of the second movie, because that follows sort of the Empire Strikes Back model, and I had different villains I wanted to use. Just a different way to tell that story.”
Gwen Stacy did appear in Spider-Man 3, with Bryce Dallas Howard as the character. But, the movie didn’t showcase her death. If you remember, Spider-Man 3 had Peter Parker dealing with a whole slew of villains and obstacles. A Gwen Stacy death may have been too much.
Koepp continued, now talking about the Amazing Spider-Man, which starred Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker:
“There was a time maybe seven or eight years ago when I was gonna come back for a couple Spider-Man movies, after they’d done their first Amazing Spider-Man. On the very first Spider-Man I sort of planned out what I thought the first three movies should be, and then all the assorted personalities it didn’t work for me to keep writing the Spider-Man movies… So I was excited to come back and try to finish the story I started telling in the first one, and as we were about to agree that I was going to do that, I pulled out all the old stuff and I started outlining those two movies and I thought, ‘Boy, you can’t go home again. That moment has passed. The time when I was really feeling it was 10 years ago, and there’s no point in trying to recreate it.’ So I bailed.”
What do you think of Koepp’s plans and would you have wanted to have seen them play out?
Source: Collider
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