![]() Just days beyond the turn of the century, Raimi was hired to direct Spider-Man after Sony originally considered such filmmakers as Burton, David Fincher, Chris Columbus, Michael Bay and M. In the year 2000, though, everything changed. Instead he made 1990’s brooding Liam Neeson-starring Darkman, an $18 million superhero-monster-movie mashup that was well-received but performed only modestly in ticket sales. Raimi, still in the throes of his horror cult classic Evil Dead trilogy at the time, had unsuccessfully tried to obtain the rights to both Batman and the Shadow. “For a long time there were movies that failed,” Sam Raimi told us while promoting Marvel’s latest surefire hit, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The first Spider-Man movie opened 20 years ago, on May 3, 2002, a time when superhero movies were far from the box-office behemoths they are in 2022.įor every instant comic-based classic like 1978’s Superman and 1989’s Batman in the preceding decades, there were myriad misses like Flash Gordon (1980), Howard the Duck (1986), The Shadow (1994), The Phantom (1996) and Steel (1997), not to mention several much-maligned Man of Steel and Caped Crusader sequels. (Photo: Columbia Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection) Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst in 2002's Spider-Man.
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