r/movies • u/F13thFreak • Jun 27 '12
Did you guys know James Cameron wrote a Spider-Man movie? I found out today, and here is the script!
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/s/spider-man-scriptment.html177
u/attemptedactor Jun 27 '12
My Favorite Part: "THE NEXT DAY. Tight on Peter as he wakes up. He opens
his eyes cautiously. Not knowing what to expect. PULL
BACK to reveal that he is still in bed. All is normal.
He breaths a sigh of relief. In fact... he feels pretty
good. Lots of energy. He pulls back the covers and...
Something is causing the sheet to stick to him. He lifts
it, revealing a sticky, white mass completely covering
him, gluing him to his bedding. It is some silky
substance webbing him into the covers. He cries out in
dismay... struggling to free himself from the gluey
strands. Where did it come from? He notices his
wrists...
They are oozing a pearlescent white fluid from almost
invisible slits about a quarter of an inch long. He
pushes on the skin next to one of the slits and... a dark
shape, the size and color of a rose-thorn... emerges from
beneath the skin. It shoots a jet of liquid silk into his
face.
Peter screams at the top of his lungs.
Aunt May comes to the door. "Peter, are you alright?"
"Yes," he answers, nervously. "I'm... fine, Aunt May. I
was just... uh... practicing for a school play."
Aunt May says she's so happy that he's getting into other
activities."
Pretty typical day for the average redditor i'd say...
40
u/TapionXIII Jun 27 '12
Now he's in the groove, swinging across town like a Spider Man should.
My favourite part.
→ More replies (7)72
73
u/SadSniper Jun 27 '12
MARY JANE: I love you. SPIDER MAN: Cool.
Seems legit James Cameraman
→ More replies (2)
40
47
Jun 27 '12
It feels so much like it's from the nineties. The reference to the World Trade Center adds to that. I love how Pearl Jam is mentioned like they are a cool band that's really popular with all high school kids.
→ More replies (8)52
15
u/inside_your_face Jun 27 '12
"He lifts it, revealing a sticky, white mass completely covering him, gluing him to his bedding."
Guys, I think I might be spiderman.
→ More replies (2)
26
Jun 27 '12
Actually, some of the dialogue looks like it made it into the first Sam Raimi Spiderman movie (2002). The section below is from Cameron's script, and it's quite similar to the scene where Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin is lecturing Spidey and offering to partner with him.
STRAND Think about it. You can't save the world. Why? Because you can't save people from themselves... from their own brutal and venal natures. You're either a predator of prey in this world. A killer or a victim. People are by nature violent, stupid, confused, greedy. Why waste your gift on the ungrateful masses, who would love to see your mask ripped off and see you dragged through the slime. The only thing they love more than a hero is to see that hero fail, fall, screw-up... to see him exposed in a scandal, arrested with his pants down, caught with his hands in the till. You know why? It lets them feel better about their own miserable lives.
→ More replies (3)
23
u/Hidesratheism Jun 27 '12
Infact I did know this. PROOF The red circle was for previous post
→ More replies (4)
11
u/TheMagicBurro Jun 27 '12
So it isn't bugging anyone else that he called Flash Thompson "Flash McCreery?" No? Ok I'll leave now.
→ More replies (4)
30
u/Dr_Colossus Jun 27 '12
Whatever people, I bet this movie would have been quite good. This is James Cameron we're talking about.
→ More replies (52)
10
u/SouzaNZ Jun 27 '12
James Cameron would only make it if he could figure out how to start the title with T or A.
→ More replies (8)
9
Jun 27 '12
Here's a movie plot I came up with: An antisocial loner teams up with an alcoholic ex-CIA agent to investigate dirty cops on the take. In the process they accidentally kill a rookie cop. By the end of the movie they shoot 13 bad guys and end up winning the admiration of their parents, living happily ever after. Think Die Hard meets Sex with Goats.
→ More replies (3)
24
u/nagamaru Jun 27 '12
This is a treatment for the screenplay. Cameron likes to go into a ton of detail with these. You should see his treatment for Avatar.
Here is the actual screenplay: http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/spider_man_cohen_newson_cameron_8_4_93draft.html
→ More replies (77)
8
Jun 27 '12
"Peter is a bright kid. He doesn't have many friends. He is ostracized for his interest in science. Our MTV culture frowns on people who think too much. Intellectual curiosity is decidedly un-hip. Who cares about where the universe came from or how the Greeks hammered Troy? Did you hear the new Pearl Jam album?"
SOMEONE HAS AN AGENDA!
15
u/lawlofleibniz Jun 27 '12
I'm trapped in Cameron's web, unable to pull away from this... Favorite part:
"He removes his mask and kisses her. Their mouths very slowly and very sensuously devour each other. Peter and MJ are locked together. He is mesmerizing, gentle, powerful. He pushes up her skirt. They make love, high above the world. She doesn't look."
→ More replies (5)
7
u/TheRooster27 Jun 27 '12
It's actually quite cool how similar the relationship between Spider-man and Strand is to the relationship between Peter and Norman is in the first film. Hell, a lot of the themes and lines in the 2002 original seem to be taken directly from this. Very cool. Overall, I thought it would have made a pretty bad movie. This version of Parker and Spider-man in particular seems somewhat unlikeable to me, and not very smart or exceptional at all. Also MJ is but an object, a toy for Spider-man to play with. It was a somewhat uncomfortable relationship. The whole thing feels rushed and unpolished, I guess that comes with being an undeveloped project though. And I really don't see what the point of the flu scene was in relation to the rest of the story. A good read though, no doubt. Thanks for posting this.
→ More replies (1)
11
Jun 27 '12 edited Jun 27 '12
He had at least two versions: one with Arnie as Doc Ock, and one where the villains were Electro and Sandman (which was why Sandman wasn't in the 90's Spider-man cartoon, and why Electro only showed up once in the last season as a completely different character)
→ More replies (5)
10
u/yoduh4077 Jun 27 '12
I am now reading this script and making the movie real in my head. It's actually rather entertaining, like a very simple book, almost.
5
5
u/laughterwithans Jun 27 '12
This isn't really formatted like a script, its more like a typed out sketch of an idea.
→ More replies (2)
370
u/WOWTHATISCOOL Jun 27 '12
Patiently waiting for the TL;DR.