THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2012)
>Sony greenlit SPIDER-MAN 4 for June 2011, with Raimi, Maguire, Dunst, Rosemary Harris and J.K. Simmons set to return, and John Malkovich and Anne Hathaway as the Vulture and Felicia Hardy. James Vanderbilt wrote the script, which was later revised by Steve Kloves, Gary Ross and David Lindsay-Abaire, but Raimi was not satisfied with the story and dropped out, leading to the project being scrapped.
>Sony originally planned to complete Raimi's series with SPIDER-MAN 4 and SPIDER-MAN 5 before rebooting the franchise, but decided to move forward with a reboot written by Vanderbilt and later revised by Kloves, Sargent and Paul Feig, and Marc Webb was selected to direct.
>In early drafts, Peter learns that his father, Richard Parker, coded the venom of the genetically engineered spiders he's created to Peter's DNA to prevent it from being weaponized by OsCorp, for which him and his wife, Mary Parker, were assassinated. Although "The Untold Story" was one of the marketing campaign's major selling points, Sony was wary after fan backlash when the concept was leaked online and deleted all scenes referencing the idea.
>In early drafts, Peter's high school classmates are more prominent. In addition to Gwen Stacy and Flash Thompson, there'd be Missy, an introverted nerdy girl who has a crush on Peter; and Ariel, Flash's manipulative girlfriend who attempts to seduce Peter once he becomes more popular after humilliating Flash in a basketball match. They were both reduced to brief appearances in the movie.
>In early drafts, Connors' relationship with his estranged ex-wife and son would receive more focus, but all of their scenes were cut to streamline the narrative.
>In early drafts, Uncle Ben would've been killed after chasing after the robber into a dark alley, mistakenly assuming he's Peter, causing the robber to panic and shoot him.