May 3, 2002(us release date)
Filming Dates
8 January 2001 - April 2001
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TRIVIA
Before Willem Dafoe received the role of the Green Goblin, both Nicolas Cage and John Malkovich were offered the role. Malkovich and Dafoe starred together in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), which was produced by Nicolas Cage.
James Franco auditioned to play Peter Parker, but was cast as Harry Osborn instead.
In addition to both Peter Parker and Norman Osborn wear their enemy's costume colors during the Thanksgiving dinner scene, Harry Osborn is seen wearing all of the colors. He's wearing a green shirt, red tie and blue coat.
Freddie Prinze Jr. and Leonardo DiCaprio were both considered for the role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man.
'Raimi, Sam' was not Sony's first choice as director. Others considered were 'DeBont, Jan' , 'Cameron, James' Ang Lee and David Fincher.
Alicia Witt was considered for the role of Mary-Jane Watson.
Elisha Cuthbert auditioned for the role of Mary-Jane Watson.
Pre-production planning for Spider-Man actually began in 1986 by Cannon Films. Later, Cannon sold the production rights to Carolco Pictures. Carolco would later sell the production rights to Sony Pictures. Sony Pictures and Marvel would produce the Spider-Man film we see today, released through Sony's "Columbia Pictures" division.
In preparation for his role, Tobey Maguire trained for a short while before the screen test and after he got the role, went on a strict exercise regime and specific diet for five months.
The scene at Columbia University was filmed on an unseasonably warm spring day, however, the costume department had provided the high school extras with cold-weather clothing. The real Columbia University students can be seen in the background wearing shorts and t-shirts by contrast.
Zach Hudson the stunt double for Tobey Maguire, fractured his leg after a stunt went wrong and he slammed in to a brick wall.
Several Spider-Man costumes were created at a cost of up to $100,000 each. Four were stolen from the set in early April of 2001 and Columbia Pictures posted a $25,000 reward for their return. The costumes were not returned.
The genetically modified spider that bit Peter Parker was not a black widow spider, but a Steatoda spider, which was chosen by Steven R. Kutcher and painted red and blue by Jens Schnabel, while the spider was anaesthetized.
The sketches Peter Parker does of his costume were actually done by Phil Jimenez, an artist on Wonder Woman comics.
The original trailer for the movie depicted a theft of a bank, with the robbers making a getaway in a helicopter. A close-up of the helicopter was shown, until the helicopter stopped, apparently caught in mid-air. As the camera zoomed out, it was shown that the helicopter was caught in a spider web, suspended between the two towers of the World Trade Center. After the attacks on the towers 11 September 2001, however, the trailer was changed.
The World Trade Center Towers can be seen in the background of some scenes and once in the reflection of Spider-Man's eye. The makers of the film chose not to remove them digitally.
In the comics, Peter Parker designed and made Spider-Man's synthetic spider web and the mechanical wrist guns that fire it. In the movie he shoots the web from his own body. Director 'Raimi, Sam' answered the protests of comic book fans saying that it was more credible to have Peter shoot web this way than for a high school boy to be able to produce a wonder adhesive in his spare time that 3M could not make.
Director Trademark: [Sam Raimi] Dual personalities of one person looking in a mirror, also exhibited in Evil Dead II (1987) , directed by Sam Raimi
Cameo: [Stan Lee] The creator of Spider-Man appears in the scene where the Green Goblin attacks the balcony at the World Unity Festival.
Cameo: [Nicholas Hammond (I)] the former "Spider-Man" actor ("Amazing Spider-Man, The" (1978)) is also at the World Unity Festival.
Cameo: [ Lucy Lawless] as a punk girl (Director Sam Raimi was and executive producer of _Xena: Warrior Princess (1995)_ )
The film contains multiple references to future Spider-Man villains- Doctor Curtis Connors (Lizard). Eddie Brock (Venom) Harry Osborn (Green Goblin#2). Mendel Stromm, (Robot Master)
The sequence of Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe) talking to his board members begins with the same shot (a steady pull back along a table framed symmetrically) and dialogue "Costs are down, revenues are up, and our stock has never been higher" as a scene in Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994) , in which Sam Raimi was co-writer and 2nd unit director. Both films also have a fast-talking newspaper chief.
 Also, in the scene where The Green Goblin attempts to form an alliance with Spider Man, the Goblin confuses the words "fail" and "fall". This is a direct reference to a similar scene between Tim Robbins and Charles Durning in Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994).
When Peter Parker is testing out his webbing for the first time, he makes several classic comic book catch-phrases, most notably "Up Up and Away Web!" (Superman) and "Shazam!" (Captain Marvel).
During the ending credits, the theme of the original Spider-Man animated series is played.
During the World Unity Fair fight scene, in the background one of the signs on the buildings shows a police officer and behind him read the words "Protecting, Serving, Blah Blah Blah."
One of Peter's sketches for his costume is of Marvel Comics superhero Stingray.
When Peter Parker browses through several newspapers looking for a used car, one of the ads shown is for an Alfa Romeo convertible: that model was marketed in Italy under the name 'Spider'.
Danny Elfman is the composer for the score of Spider-Man. He'd also written the score of other films starring a comic book hero, Batman and Darkman. He also composed "The March of The Dead", the main theme to Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness (1993)
David Koepp's fourth screenplay to hold the opening weekend box office record. The others are Jurassic Park (1993) (June 1993), Mission: Impossible (1996) (May 1996) and Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (1997) (May 1997).
Actor/stuntman Scott Leva was considered for the role of Peter Parker/Spiderman when the film project was first proposed in the mid-1980s.
Marion Ross was considered for the role of Aunt Mae.
Mary Jane's red hair in this movie is a wig; however, Kirsten Dunst liked the look so much, she has said she will dye her hair for the sequels.
The scene in which Peter Parker catches Mary Jane's lunch on the tray involved no CGI. With the help of a sticky substance to keep the tray planted on his hand, Tobey Maquire eventually (after many takes) performed the stunt exactly as seen.
The "jumping spider" that Peter attempts to take a picture of is an Avandale Spider, the same type used in "Arachnophobia".
The smoke in the lab during Osborn's transformation scene was originally white but was then digitally altered to green.
Scenes of New Yorkers throwing trash at the Green Goblin and Spider-Man perched alongside the American flag were added after 11 September 2001 to reflect the city's sense of unity and patriotism.
In theaters, the end credits featured Aerosmith doing the ABC Spider-Man theme. The video relese uses the orignal recording.
A scene that was cut from the movie was a large chunk of Stan Lee's cameo, as said in the video "Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters, and Marvels." The scene was that Stan Lee was selling sunglasses and looks over to Peter Parker and says: "These are the same glasses that the X-Men wore," or somewhere along those lines.
GOOFS
When Peter wakes up after getting bitten he puts on his glasses and the entire screen become blurred not just the part looking through the glasses.
An establishing shot shows us that the wrestling match is the Armory on 26th Street at Park Avenue South. The carjacking happened near the NY Public Library on 41st and 5th Avenue. The robber apparently ran nearly mile before committing a carjacking, only to drive downtown again.
In several scenes, the Green Goblin's mouth (which is clearly visible through the mesh in the "mouth" of his mask) does not move while he is talking.
When smashing the Green Goblin against a wall during the final fight scene, the brick wall flexes noticeably.
When Mary Jane is trapped on the balcony you can clearly see the metal mechanical supports that hold the wall.
When Spider-Man first rescues Mary Jane at the Unity festival and swings her to safety, they are moving to the right but her hair is flowing that way, too, instead of blowing in Spider-Man's face.
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