Script Report: SPIDER-MAN
December 18th, 2000
According to SCI FI Wire Director Sam Raimi has completed his SPIDER-MAN movie casting which includes: Cliff Robertson as Uncle Ben, Rosemary Harris as Aunt May and a surprise appearance by Bruce Campbell.
He also confirmed that the script is still being tweaked, "I would say that the script is always in need of work," Raimi said. "I'm not happy with it yet. But I think it's a very good script now. What we need to do is make it more than great, though. That's the problem. The expectation is so high that a very good script that I would have shot, and happily, isn't good enough. So I would say it's true, but that's the relative terms that it's true in. But no, the studio ... [is now] happy. Now it's worse than that. Now I've got to get happy."
Raimi also told SCI FI Wire that he wouldn't resort to the flashy camera tricks of his early films, such as DARKMAN. According to Raimi, "Spider-Man is the story of a young man who is irresponsible and is selfish and has petty goals. And it's a story of how he learns to be a responsible young man."
-- Chris
(Source: SCI FI Wire)
STORE IT AWAY: Rumor has it that Alvin Sargent (ORDINARY PEOPLE) is doing some work on the SPIDER-MAN script. Why Sargent? He is married to Spider-Man producer Laura Ziskin, so it makes sense.
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