Everyone loves Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man now, but at the time he was a long shot to even get the directing job in the first place.
has a new oral history of the film in honor of its 20 year anniversary, and includes a lot of detail about ’s long development. Raimi, for example, was a very surprising choice to direct the film in the first place. A beloved cult figure thanks to thefranchise, Raimi had never really had a major blockbuster hit to that point in his career. In the article, Raimi explains that he was told by his agent “there’s about 18 directors they’d rather have than you on a list.
Some of the other contenders for the job included David Fincher and Tim Burton — who supposedly told Sony executive Amy Pascal “I guess I’m just a DC guy” as a very odd sales pitch — but when Raimi came in, his passion for the material blew everyone away. Pascal told “He came in and said it’s a soap opera about a boy who loves a girl, and that’s what I want to focus on. John Calley and I just looked at each other and said, ‘Well, that’s the movie we want to make too.
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