Prison Mike
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I don't either but the moment they announced this was being released back in May, I just had this impulse to pre-order it. Now I need to buy a record player lol.
Imagine a Spider-Man 2 Steel Book with this as the cover?I'm going to get it. I don't have a record player but I need it. It's too gorgeous.
I also appreciate it using the original art and posters instead of those bland awful new ones they plaster on a lot of the re-releases for the blu-rays and streaming.
GloriousImagine a Spider-Man 2 Steel Book with this as the cover?
However, new details about the film shed a light on what could've been. Speaking with CinemaBlend's Sean O'Connell for his new book, Great Power: How Spider-Man Conquered Hollywood During The Golden Age of Blockbusters, storyboard artist Jeffrey Henderson revealed that Spider-Man 4 would've seen Spidey going up against The Vulture played by John Malkovich. This version of the character would've been some kind of government contractor who did all kinds of dirty work. His super villain name would've stemmed from the fact that "he didn't leave anything but bones behind" when he finished his jobs. To really highlight that, the film would've had a brutal action scene that saw Spider-Man on the brink of death, more than we had seen in previous films. Henderson also confirmed that the film would've had a fun opening montage that saw Spidey rounding up villains that Raimi never intended to use, including Mysterio.
"We were going to open the movie with this montage of all the villains we knew that Sam would never be able to use in Spider-Man movies," said Henderson. "Because Peter, now that MJ has gone, he has finally made peace, and he loves being Spider-Man. He's actually enjoying it. So we were going to try to do The Shocker, Mysterio, The Stilt Man, and that kind of stuff."
Well, it appears we were mistaken because a new book, With Great Power, sheds some light on Raimi's real plans. Storyboard artist Jeffrey Henderson reveals that Eternals star Angelina Jolie was "attached to this pivotal role for a short amount of time" as Adrian Toomes' daughter.
As well as suiting up as Vulturess, the unnamed character was set to be "an accomplished executive representing a venture capital firm that was trying to buy the Daily Bugle." What led to this businesswoman becoming a supervillain? The death of her dear old dad!
"They were going to have a big brawl-for-it-all, where Vulture almost kills Spider-Man," Henderson explains. "And then Spider-Man at the last minute - he’s really wounded, he’s bleeding really badly, he’s in real trouble - Peter finally, almost as a reaction, forces The Vulture off."
"When he does, it snaps some of the stuff from the wings, so he ends up just tumbling into the ether, off the top of the Citicorp building. That’s what does him in."
It's also noted that Hathaway was indeed eyed to play Black Cat, meaning Peter Parker would have more than likely found a new love interest in the wake of Mary Jane Watson's departure.