Amazing Spider-Man from the Mind of Fincher

David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is currently wowing audiences in theaters but the director almost put his spin on everyone’s favorite wall-crawler before Marc Webb took the helm of The Amazing Spider-Man. Fincher recently revealed his vision of Marvel’s web-slinger and it’s sort of sad that it didn’t make it to the big screen.

I love superhero movies but I’m less than thrilled with the need to start at square one with every reboot or remake that occurs. We know how Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man began their adventures, so does Hollywood really need to see how many ways they can re-tell the same old story?

Fincher recently talked with the gang at io9 about how he would’ve handled Spider-Man and it seems that he found an interesting way around the origin story, saying he would’ve done a ten-minute title sequence, similar to a music video, to show Peter getting bitten by the radioactive spider, witnessing the death of Uncle Ben, losing Mary Jane, and then starting the actual movie with Peter meeting Gwen Stacy. He also says Green Goblin would’ve been the villain and Gwen Stacy would die, mirroring the events of the comic book.

I think Webb’s take on The Amazing Spider-Man has a lot of potential and I love the irony of having a guy named Webb handle the web-slinger but I really like Fincher’s way of working around the origin story and wish others would follow his lead.

The Amazing Spider-Man crawls into theaters on July 3, 2012.