Why Spider-Man 2002 Took So Long To Happen
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man is one of the most influential movies in the superhero genre, but the road to success wasn’t easy, and Spider-Man’s first big-budget production went through various obstacles that delayed the project. Spider-Man is one of the most popular and beloved characters from Marvel Comics, and he has been adapted to other media for years, with various TV shows and video games, but he has found more success on the big screen. The Marvel Cinematic Universe currently has its own version of the web-slinger, but it wouldn’t have been possible without Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man.
In 2002, Sony released Spider-Man, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, James Franco as Harry Osborn, and Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin. Spider-Man explored the origin story of the web-slinger following high school student Peter Parker who is bitten by a genetically modified spider that gives him powers. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn’s experiment on himself with an unstable performance-enhancing chemical goes wrong and leaves him insane, becoming the Green Goblin. The critical and commercial success of Spider-Man led to two sequels and established it as one of the most influential superhero movies ever, but getting there wasn’t an easy process.
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Although Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man wasn’t the character’s big-screen debut, as there were three movies between 1977 and 1981 that were theatrically released in Europe and a Japanese movie in 1978, it was the biggest Spider-Man film project at the time. However, the pre-production process of Spider-Man was complicated and the project was delayed multiple times since the 1980s
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