From: jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Spiderman: The Movie
Date: 9 Nov 1992 13:23:01 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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ckc1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (CEDRICK KIT CHAN) writes:

>Anyone hear any news on this one??

>    This was a major subject of conversation last year.  I seemed that
>everyone agreed that James Cameron was directing it, but on no other point or
>gossip was their an agreement.  There were an awful lot of rumors going around
>(many that I personally foud doubtful).

>    Perhaps PAD would have some inside info he can offer us.


With the resurgence of studio interest in super-heroes and comic book
characters, producers have been scouting for directors comfortable
with the genre, and/or insane enough to fight WW3 with Murphy's Law
to wrestle these creative nightmares into theatrical reality.  Since
I made a feature with a speed-running hero - like THE FLASH - on a
fourth of that show's budget, and four times its special effects -
I've been targeted to receive some interesting scripts.

This was sent to me without letterhead or release, from someone who
must have worked with 21st Century Films - headed by Menahem Golan,
who helped bring us the smash-hit-classic, SUPERMAN IV.

This is a small section from SPIDER-MAN, Page 5.  Please pardon the
typoes, grammatical errors and odd phrasing.  Because it ain't me.


INT COLLEGE PHYSICS LAB - DAY

This is an enormous room, 100 lab tables.  The yellowing smoke
of a thousand experiments hands in the air.  A HUGE AMERICAN
FLAG dominates the back wall.

PETER, HARRY and LIZ set up their TABLES.  FLASH reads the
DAILY BUGLE sports section. PETER can't take his eyes off
LIZ.  When she looks back he looks down at his GEAR.

                          LIZ
                    (queer but soft)
     What is it, Peter?

                         PETER
                     (embarrassed)
     It's nothing.

                          OCK
     I have better things to do than 
     teach introductory Physics Rosomorf.
     Undergrades are kindless adolescence.

                        THORKEL
     You see he is impossible.

                          OCK
     Thorkel you are the dummiest administrator
     our university has ever had. 


...That's enough.  One hopes that some of the production budget
will be spent to hire a competent proofreader.


In case you're wondering how I can post copyrighted material
without permission...well, it's because:

a) The FBI won't do a thing (they've ignored the interstate and
   international copyright violations by the unauthorized
   distributors of my film, with millions of dollars in damages 
   - so they're not going to care a whit about a Net-posting);
b) This is an old script, from April of 1989, and this poster
   hopes-to-ghod that Stan Lee has since insisted upon a complete
   rewrite by a someone fluent in modern American dialogue. 
c) Maybe some good will come of it, and we'll finally get a movie
   that faithfully brings to life one of the most popular and
   proven illustrated adventure heroes in these past three decades.

--Anonymous (don't blow my cover!)
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