“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” blew minds for superhero fans, animation lovers, and movie junkies alike, but imagine what could have been after co-director Rodney Rothman revealed what he originally had in mind. During his interview with Jeff Goldsmith on the show “The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith,” Rothman disclosed that in the drafting stage of the hit film, ‘Spider-Verse’ contained a few extra Spider-Men that we would recognize.
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“I wrote a scene that had every, that had Tom Holland and Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire in the same scene and… I don’t want to get into it but I did write that scene, but there’s a lot of anxiety, there’s a lot of anxiety around the movie generally and there was anxiety about confusing people,” said the filmmaker.
That’s right folks; there were plans to include cameos of Holland, Garfield, and Maguire in the movie, all of whom took their live-action turn wearing the vigilante’s mask over the past twenty years. However, the idea was brought to a halt after the creative crew decided it might be a bit too confusing for the audience. Though it would have been fun for the hardcore Spidey fans, the move might’ve been the tipper into too much with a movie already full of Spider-Ham, Spider-Woman, Spider-Noir, Peni Parker, two Peter Parkers, and of course Miles Morales.
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Though we all know of the early incarnations of Spider-Man on screen (the ‘Spider-Verse’ after-scene gave a nice nod to the hilarity of the TV show 0f ’67), Tobey Maguire was the first to take on the role of Spider-Man in film in 2002. Maguire starred in three films before the mantle was passed to Andrew Garfield in 2012, and then Tom Holland in 2016. Though it looks like Maguire and Garfield are retired from superhero-ing for good, don’t worry; Holland’s still going strong and returning to the big screen in 2019’s “Spider-Man: Far Frome Home.”