Många, långa filmer om Spider-Man har vi fått genom åren med en rad olika skådespelare som gestaltat Stan Lees älskade karaktär. En av de filmerna som vi var nära att få se men som aldrig blev av, var Avatar-gubben James Camerons "mörkare" och "mer verklighetsbaserade" version där han initialt ville se Aliens/Terminator-stjärnan Michael Biehn i rollen som Peter Parker. Cameron skiftade sedan fokus enligt en intervju med Variety och satsade på en yngre version av Spidey och det var då han inledde diskussioner med Leonardo DiCaprio om att spela Parker.
"I wanted to make something that had a kind of gritty reality to it. Superheroes in general always came off as kind of fanciful to me, and I wanted to do something that would have been more in the vein of Terminator and Aliens, that you buy into the reality right away. So you're in a real world, you're not in some mythical Gotham City. Or Superman and the Daily Planet and all that sort of thing, where it always felt very kind of metaphorical and fairytale-like. I wanted it to be: It's New York. It's now. A guy gets bitten by a spider. He turns into this kid with these powers and he has this fantasy of being Spider-Man, and he makes this suit and it's terrible, and then he has to improve the suit, and his big problem is the damn suit. Things like that. I wanted to ground it in reality and ground it in universal human experience. I think it would have been a fun film to make."
Vad tror du om en Spidey-rulle med Leo i huvudrollen, hade det fungerat?
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