Famous director James Cameron has revealed that he failed to persuade Fox to buy the rights to the "Spider-Man" franchise.
Before Sam Raimi brought the comic book hero Spider-Man to the big screen, James Cameron was interested in the task, as he revealed in his book "Tech Noir: The Art of James Cameron."
The author of the cult films "Titanic" and "Avatar", he calls his version of Spider-Man "the best film he never made".
He tried to get the director's chair for this film, in the period between the filming of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Titanic".
As the director revealed, his version of the comic book adaptation was very different from Raimi's.
“The first thing you have to understand is that he is not Spider-Man even though he presents himself as such. He is a spider boy. A boy who is in high school, a nerd and no one notices him," explained Cameron, adding that his hero's superpower is actually "a metaphor for the potential that every human has inside, but doesn't recognize."
"I tried to get Fox to buy the rights to 'Spider-Man.' Sony was kind of tied to them and it was too complicated for Fox to get into that story. I can't believe they gave up, I told them - this will be worth a billion dollars, maybe ten," the director recalled.
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