James Cameron really is the king of the box office.
With “Avatar: The Way of Water” set to overtake Cameron’s own “Titanic” as the third biggest movie of all time, the unstoppable director can claim to have made three of the five most financially successful films of all time.
And even though there’s simply no way things could have gone better for the veteran filmmaker, I can’t help but wish he’d actually made his Spider-Man movie.Yes, before Sam Raimi introduced us all to Tobey Maguire’s Spidey in 2002 and set the standard for Spider-Man films going forward, James Cameron almost made his own web-slinging blockbuster.
The director went as far as producing a “scriptment” (script and treatment combined) which has since found its way online.
Unfortunately, the whole thing fell apart in 1995 when Carolco, the independent studio behind Cameron’s mega-hit “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” and rights-holders to a Spider-Man movie,
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