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word that Jim Cameron’s original scriptment (which David Koepp's script is based upon) featured Electro and Sandman,

one should take this rumor with a grain of salt.


January 27, 2000

It appears that any difficulties that were in place that prevented helmer Sam Raimi from taking on directing duties on the

Spider-Man are nearly gone. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Raimi is currently in final negotiations to sit in the

film’s director chair. Usually word of "final negotiations" suggest that it's a done deal, but Raimi’s problem was unusual.

Raimi, who starts shooting The Gift on February 3rd, would need to move over to Spider-Man immediately after filming

wraps on Gift, but before he can do post-production. It was previously reported that Sony Pictures was offering a

multi-million dollar compensation to Franchise for delays on The Gift caused by Raimi’s temporary exit from the project.

When the deal is signed, Raimi looks to start on Spider-Man in the spring. Afterwards, he will have to do post for both

Spidey and The Gift. Sony is targeting summer 2001 for the release of Spider-Man.
The trade reports that Raimi will shoot from David Koepp’s script, which is based on a treatment by James Cameron.
January 20, 2000

According to SciFI Wire it is now confirmed that Sam Raimi has been in talks regarding his helming of the long awaited

Spider-Man movie. Speaking with Raimi partner Rob Tapert, SciFi was told: "He's had a regular series of meetings,

explaining his problems with the script, and the usual director things."


Tapert also confirmed reports of scheduling confilicts that require Spider-Man to be shooting at the same time Raimi is

doing post-production on The Gift, a supernatural thriller currently being filmed in Georgia, and starring Keanu Reeves

and Cate Blanchett.
Raimi, seemingly less confident says: "Uh, I'm trying to get Spider-Man, but they're never going to let me do it; they'd

have to move this and that." Tapert claims: "He's just negative on those things, until he's shooting on the set and cashing

the check."
January 13, 2000

Over the last few years, a plethora of names have been thrown around among fans regarding who they think should play

the big screen version of Peter Parker, the amazing Spider-Man. Now, according to Seventeen magazine, one of the

leading contenders is the long rumored Nicholas Brendon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Seventeen says that Sony is

currently in discussions with Brendon to take on the role. The Insider placed a call to Brendon’s reps who stonewalled on

the matter choosing to neither deny or verify. Hmmm…


Meanwhile, "a source that would like to remain anonymous" checked in with SpidermanHype with two more names to

add to the list. The site informed the Insider that their source is suggesting that Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore) and

Wes Bentley (American Beauty) are the most sought after for the role besides Brendon. As usual, the Insider looked

around, calling people to get the word. By press time, we had spoken to Schwartzman’s reps who told us that they hadn’t

even heard about it.
In addition to the casting talk, SpidermanHype’s source also revealed:
"The source also revealed that Raimi is not signed on to direct yet but talks are still going strong. We had mentioned

last Thursday that Amy Pascal was 'coaxing' John Woo to direct the film. The source confirms that this is true, but that

it is pretty much a lost cause. Apparently John Woo has signed on with MGM last week to direct Windtalkers, a WWII

film about a group of Navajo Indians who write the coding for the soldiers in Navajo, so the Japanese cannot decode

it. The film follows a group of soldiers assigned to the Navajos who must kill them if captured so the code cannot be

revealed."


This latter points seem to ring true, but time will tell.
January 10, 2000

It looks as if those rumors that Sam Raimi might be helming the Spider-Man movie are true, though it’s said there's still

one major obstacle to surmount.
Last week, AICN broke the story that Raimi was the man who got the gig. Now, according to Variety, Raimi’s current

project, The Gift, stands in the way of the director taking on the webslinger.


The trade is reporting that after Raimi made his pitch, it so impressed the powers that be at Sony that they decided they

just had to have him. Now, Sony is said to be negotiating with Lakeshore, the producers of The Gift, to allow Raimi to

jump into Spider-Man immediately after shooting Gift but before that film’s post-production. Sony hopes to get Raimi

into the project by late spring or early summer after which the director will finish up post on both Spider-Man and The

Gift. In addition, Sony is said to be offering Franchise a seven-figure amount in compensation for the delay of their film.
The Gift is scheduled to start shooting later this month no matter what happens. Sony wants Spider-Man hitting theater

screens for summer 2001.


January 5, 2000

There’s been quite a rumble out there on the Internet with rumors (perhaps more) that helmer Jan De Bont (Twister, The

Haunting) may the latest addition to the pool of potential directors for the coveted Spider-Man directorial position.
Yesterday, Variety featured an article about Columbia/Sony that ocused in on the studio’s problems making the big hits,

particularly talking to Col big shot Amy Pascal. Within the article, unnamed sources claim that Pascal is in talks with

director De Bont.
Having said that, the folks over at Spider-Man Hype, who tipped us off to the Variety piece, also sent along word from

one of their sources on the matter. Their source alleges:


"Listen, talks are breaking down with Marvel and Sony. Fact is the script written by Koepp is not what Marvel wanted.

Sony might be bringing in David [Mamet] who just finished Hannibal. [Mamet] may revise the script to fit Marvel's needs.

The talk about Jan De Bont is not true, Fincher is the prime contender for the spot. Marvel want's the image that

[McFarlane] created. The Darker side of [Spider-Man]. Rumors also have been flying about the graphics. Digital Domain

(Titanic) and Fantasy2 (Terminator) have already composed a 20 million dollar cgi."
So, how true is this talk of De Bont? Don’t write it off yet. Not one to let rumors lie, the Insider spoke with one of De Bont’s

reps on the matter earlier today. The person I spoke to would not commit to anything, only saying that several directors

were under consideration for the helming slot. Perhaps more interesting is what she won’t say. In response to the direct

question as to if De Bont was being talked to. The rep would only say, "I'm not at liberty to say at this time." Hmmm…


December 8, 1999

Word has it that Sony Pictures Entertainment has finally whittled down their choices for the director of the Spider-Man

movie to two final candidates. According to Variety, the studio will select either David Fincher (Fight Club, The Game,

Seven) or Chris Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire, Home Alone, Bicentennial Man). Word has it that the studio will make

their final decision before Christmas.
Either director conjures up images of drastically different approaches to comicdom’s favorite webslinger. One on hand,

Fincher would seem to be most likely to approach Spidey from the grim and gritty angle, which would seem to be perfect

for the rumored "scriptment" written by James Cameron. On the other hand, Columbus was previously involved in the

Fantastic Four movie and a comic book fan to boot. While he has a career of warm and fuzzy movies, he could also bring

the humor of the character that has been a part of the Spider-Man comic since its beginning.
The trade also reports that the warm, endearing version of Spidey and his alter ego, Peter Parker, may not be the way

the studio wants to go. Having said that, I can’t help but ask if the powers that be if they have ever read the original

comics?
December 3, 1999

Those recent rumors started by E’s Ted Casablanca implying that Chris O’Donnell (The Bachelor, Batman and Robin)

was going to play Spider-Man and later word of Barry Sonnenfeld (Men In Black, Wild Wild West) directing (and both

since shot down by AICN) sent the Insider off to find out what was really up.


While a call to O’Donnell’s reps was met with silence, the Insider did get a call back from Barry Sonnenfeld’s people. A

spokesperson for the director told the site, "At this time Mr. Sonnenfeld has absolutely no involvement with any

Spider-Man film. There is not a single scrap of paper in this office regarding the project."
While on the phone, we couldn’t resist asking what else Sonnenfeld had on his potential production schedule. Our source

informed us that Sonnenfeld currently has no projects under development, though considering Mr. Sonnenfeld’s stature in

the industry… in spite of Wild Wild West… odds are that he’ll pick up something, perhaps the recently acquired White

Noise or the oft-mentioned Chippendales project.


September 24, 1999

You can now add Steven Spielberg’s name into the list of directors who are rumored to be interested in bringing

Spider-Man to the big screen. According to Reel.com columnist, Jeffrey Wells, a "well-positioned source" revealed that

Spielberg might be interested in taking on the webslinger after finishing up work on Minority Report, currently scheduled

to start production early next year. Reasons cited include that Spielberg would be working with screenwriter David Koepp

(The Lost World: Jurassic Park) again, DreamWorks needs a hit (which Spidey should be) as well as the filmmaker

having an affinity for the troubled youth with a strange secret theme.
Still, even if Spielberg is interested, jumping into the Spider-Man project at that time would push his already delayed

Memoirs of a Geisha back even further.


Wells also reports that Spielberg spokesperson Marvin Levy says the rumor is "not true" suggesting that the rumor is the

result of the director’s involvement on the Spider-Man ride at Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Florida. In spite of that

dismissal, Wells source maintains that Spielberg is interested. Time will tell.
September 20, 1999

In the most recent issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, Marvel big shot Avi Arad answered a number of questions about

the status of the Sony's Spider-Man movie. Arad revealed that David Koepp's script is finished, though there are said to

be some "copyright issues" to be resolved before the film can be released in 2001. Regarding casting of the role, Arad

revealed that he would like to see either "Leonardo DiCaprio or Ryan Phillippe" take on the role of the webslinger. He

also revealed that whomever signs on for the part is likely to also have to sign on for a number of Spidey films to avoid

the frequent re-casting experienced by the Batman franchise. (Thanks to 'STAX' for the webslinging info!)
August 23, 1999

Regular Cinescape contributor and newspaper columnist Cindy Pearlman managed to corner scribe David Koepp for a

few minutes and tried to squeeze some small details out of him regarding the Spider-Man movie script he is working on.

Koepp told the columnist, "I'm writing it as we speak, but please don't ask me any plot points. It's a huge secret."

Pearlman then asked if Koepp thought Leonardo DiCaprio might be right for the role. Koepp answered, "Spider-Man is

17 years old. Leonardo is much too old. I think Spider-Man should be played by a newcomer, but that's all I'm saying."


August 16, 1999

After being asked which roles from the past that he'd most like to have played, Casper Van Dien informed an audience

at the San Diego Comic Con Saturday that he'd love to suit up as Spider-Man in Sony's upcoming adaptation of the

Marvel comic-book. "I stick to surfaces real well," he joked to the crowd. What would Van Dien's take on the webslinger

be? "As close as I could be to [vision of] Stan Lee," the actor later said to Cinescape.
August 13, 1999

That Sony's Spider-Man movie remains without at director at this point doesn't mean the webslinger is having trouble

attracting talent. Speaking with Cinescape Online editor Chris Kivlehan exclusively at the San Diego Comic Con, Stan

Lee enthused, "I gotta tell ya, every director in Hollywood wants to do it. Except Jim Cameron. I had really wanted Jim to

do it, but we'll get a good guy."
July 13, 1999

If you assumed that Marvel Comics has little control over what we'll see in Sony's eventual blockbuster Spider-Man film

similar to the way that the other big comic company has little control over the filmic versions of their major properties ...

well, you know how the saying goes when you assume something. "We have story and outline approval, and the script

cannot be different from what was approved," Marvel honcho Avi Arad informed Michael Fleming of Variety. "We have a

say over how the characters will look, access to dailies in a timely fashion, and we either exec produce or produce.

Legally, we have a lot of checks and balances, but the way we work with studios is very collaborative."
Arad insists that Marvel is slow to use this veto power, however. But that doesn't mean they won't use it. For example,

when a Spidey draft had the webslinger cause the death of a villain, Marvel nixed that plot twist. "That we wouldn't allow,"

Arad told the trade. "Spider-Man never kills anybody." David Koepp (Snake Eyes) is currently drafting the Spider-Man

script from a treatment written by James Cameron, according to previous reports. There's no director attached to the

project as yet.
June 21, 1999

Heath Ledger (10 Things I Hate About You) would seem to have a lot of irons in the fire right now. As previously

announced, Ledger is set to take on the role of Mel Gibson’s son in Devlin and Emmerich’s Revolutionary War pic The

Patriot. The young actor is also dropping hints that he may take a role in a long delayed Anne Rice project and even play

a certain red and blue clad webslinger.
While talking to South Australia’s Rip It Up magazine’s Annie Carson and The Nazz, Ledger revealed what’s up with that

saying, "Yeah, The Patriot... starts shooting in the Carolinas at the end of August. It’s a film that’s set during the

American Revolution but it’s not only about America claiming independence from the British, but it has a lot to do with the

relationship of father and son also."


Ledger also revealed that he’s been in talks with the producers of Spider-Man as well as those of the seemingly

doomed sequel to Interview With a Vampire saying, "There have been discussions, but I think filming of The Patriot

will conflict with Queen of the Damned, which is the sequel you’re talking about… and as for Spider-Man, again, there

have been discussions. Spider-Man is another Columbia film and they like to keep you in the ‘family’, but it’s too early to

know what will happen with that one, it won’t come about until late 2000." (Thanks to ‘The Nazz’ for the info!)
May 25, 1999

‘The Nazz and Mad Dog’ from Rip It Up magazine down under checked in with some interesting follow-up info about that

rumor that Ron Howard was interested in helming the Spider-Man movie.
Howard was asked point blank by The Nazz about the rumors of his directing and even Jim Carrey starring. Howard

responded, "How do you know that?" When told that it had been floating around the Internet, Howard continued, "Oh, I

see. Well, I was just recently in Orlando for the opening of the Universal theme park - which, by the way, is sensational -

and they’ve got this big Spider-Man attraction, and it was there that I started hearing this rumour that I’d apparently said

some definite thing about doing it. I’d like to - Spider-Man’s my all-time favourite superhero character - but I don’t know

who’s writing the script and it’s not finished and I haven’t read anything. I’d be interested to." (Thanks to ‘Mad Dog’ &

‘The Nazz’ for the info!)
May 18, 1999

Ron Howard dropped an interesting bit of info on columnists Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith regarding the

upcoming Spider-Man movie: he wouldn’t mind directing it. Howard explains, "The rights are up for grabs. That point

definitely hasn't escaped my attention."


April 20, 1999

The legal wranglings around Sony's Spider-Man movie seem to be settled. A state judge court ruled yesterday that

Viacom has no claim to the television distribution rights to a Spider-Man movie produced by Sony Pictures

Entertainment and Marvel Enterprises. It should be noted that Viacom does plan to appeal the decision, but Variety

suggests that the company may be willing to settle out of court on the matter. Before the verdict, Viacom was said to be

seeking approximately $10 million to drop their claims, but expectations are that such a number would lower considering

the outcome of the trial.
April 16, 1999

Hot off The Matrix, it would be a fanboy dream for the Wachowski Brothers to bring their slick directorial style to Sony's

upcoming Spider-Man project. Unfortunately, a fanboy dream is all it appears to be. Following up on the rumor that

appeared on Coming Attractions today, the Insider checked in with the representitives for the Chicago-native Wachowski

Bros. to see if there was any veracity to the buzz that they are in talks to helm the webslinger feature. They are not going

to do Spider-Man, I was told.


April 15, 1999

The final barrier of the neverending Spider-Man legal battle could be pushed aside come Monday. Yesterday, in Los

Angeles Superior Court, lawyers representing Marvel/Sony and Viacom made their closing arguments regarding

Viacom’s claims that they still own the TV distribution rights to an eventual Spider-Man movie, according to Variety.

Viacom contends that they own the rights based on an agreement with the now defunct 21st Century Film Corp. Marvel

and Sony maintain that the original agreement with 21st was based on that company actually making the film. By Marvel’s

reckoning, when 21st failed to fulfill their part of the deal by making the movie as well as subsequently going belly up, all

other rights attached to the property were considering null and void. Marvel and Sony also maintain that Viacom long

gave up on the project when they "deleted" the Spider-Man title from a list of 15 films the company was going to

distribute for 21st. The trade also reports that at the end of the day, Judge Aurelio Munoz declared he would decide the

case on Monday. Judge Munoz was the same judge that ruled that MGM had no claims on the Spider-Man property

paving the way for a production agreement between Sony and Marvel.


April 8, 1999

Wednesday saw opening arguments in what may be the final strand of the arduous legal web that has hung on to the

Spider-Man property preventing it from going to the big screen, and quite possibly losing James Cameron as the

director along the way.


The point of this trial is that Viacom, Inc. claims to have the TV rights to the Spider-Man movie no matter who eventually

got around to producing it, according to the Hollywood Reporter. They base their assertion on a deal with the now-defunct

21st Century Film Corp. which renegotiated the rights for Spider-Man with Marvel 10 years ago. Since then, 21st went

belly up and the rights went to Carolco, which in turn went belly up.


Regardless of the various business crashes, Viacom maintains that their deal with 21st Century contained "successor

agreements" entitling the company to TV distribution rights regardless of who made the film.


The deciding factor on this issue may be the same as MGM’s claim. Since part of 21st Century’s deal charged the studio

to mae the movie or lose the rights, one might reason that since they didn’t, there are no rights to be taken by Viacom.

Ultimately, it will be up to Judge Munoz, who decided the MGM suit.
April 5, 1999

Last Friday, the Insider reported on rumors that scribe David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park: The Lost World,

Mission: Impossible) had been hired by Columbia Pictures to write a script based on James Cameron’s treatment for

the Spider-Man movie. Now, according to the Hollywood Reporter, inside sources inform the trade that Koepp will be

"drawing in part" from the treatment.
April 5, 1999

I’ll bet you thought the legal web surrounding the Spider-Man movie property was all over. Nope. According to the

Hollywood Reporter, a trial has been set to start on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, this time to resolve Viacom's

claims that it owns television distribution rights to the Spider-Man picture.


April 2, 1999

James Cameron may be out of the Spider-Man project, but that doesn’t mean that his treatment is. According to Mr.

Showbiz columnist Jeffrey Wells, Columbia/Sony is said to sticking with the treatment that has everybody’s favorite

webslinger taking on Electro and the Sandman. Furthermore, Wells reports that he’s heard that the studio has hired

scribe David Koepp (Jurassic Park: The Lost World, Mission: Impossible) to take a crack at the treatment and write

a script based on it.


March 15, 1999

Despite a recent glimmer of hope that surfaced when Sony bought James Cameron's Spider-Man treatment from MGM

as part of the settlements that left Sony with the rights to the webslinger movie franchise, it now appears that James

Cameron will not make the Spider-Man movie.


"I have definitely moved on," the Titanic director allegedly told the World Entertainment News Network recently. "It was

something I really wanted to do eight years ago when I was first after the project. But your ideas change and the ways in

which you want to proportion your life's energies. When you make a film every two or three years, you make that decision

very carefully and not just because everyone wants you to make it." Cameron was confidant that Sony "will find some

young man or woman to bring it alive."
A recent ShoWest announcement by Fox honco Bill Mechanic revealing that the director is set to create a summer 2001

feature for that studio also cast doubt on the possibility of a Cameron-led Spider-Man film (since summer 2001 is the

probable release date for the webslinger feature).
However, it should be noted that a Lightstorm representitive in touch with the Insider could not confirm the World

Entertainment News Network quote. (Thanks to Rob Worley and his great Comics 2 Film site for the lead!)


March 12, 1999

Perhaps undermining speculation that James Cameron might helm Sony's Spider-Man movie project after all, Variety

reports today that Bill Mechanic of Fox announced at ShoWest that the Titanic director will produce a movie for the

studio in time for a summer 2001 release (Spider-Man itself would seem to be headed to theaters that same summer).

Exactly what movie wasn't addressed, but Fox's recently acquired Terminator 3 sure seems like a natural fit.
March 10, 1999

Marvel Comics is running a poll on its Web site to determine which Spider-Man villain comic fans would most like to see

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