Bruce Campbell was gonna be Mysterio in Riami's Spider-Man 4

[PNGwynne]

^Yeah, but I still think Malkovich would be a perfect Vulture.

[samurainoir]

^Yeah, I REALLY wanted to see Baker as the Lizard. I still like my fan plot of Dylan becoming the Lizard, and Kraven the Hunter being an unscrupulous reality TV star who comes to hunt him.

Chris

I think this is similar to Bendis' take on Kraven over in Ultimate Spider-man.

Kraven was an Australian reality TV star who tries to hunt Spider-Man on live-tv or something like that.

then they made him a werewolf.

[samurainoir]

I always thought the Amazing Spider-Man script was in fact a modified Raimi Spider-Man 4 script. The credited writer also wrote Spider-man 2 and 3. With the Lizard already set-up in 2 & 3, plus Gwen and Captain Stacey set up in 3.

I have to wonder if you jettisoned the origin story aspect of Amazing Spider-Man, In addition to Baker Lizard, would they have given that over to Malkovich Vulture, Mysterio Bruce Campbell etc.?

[Earth 2 Chris]

I think this is similar to Bendis' take on Kraven over in Ultimate Spider-man.

Kraven was an Australian reality TV star who tries to hunt Spider-Man on live-tv or something like that.

then they made him a werewolf.

Huh. I had no idea. Left the Ultimate title after about 20 issues, and never looked back.

Chris

[hedrap]

Sam - you're correct about 4 and ASM. Bendis was the culprit behind the reboot.