The Sony tape did not materialize after Spider-Man 3, but before the restart of the film saga there was a video game in development.
Although the Spider-Man 4 movie was never shot due to disagreements between the director of the original movie trilogy, Sam Raimi, and Sony, there was a video game underway during those times for the Wii console, Nintendo's great success at Late last decade. Now graphic material of the prototype of this video game has appeared.
The origin of this material is Gaming Alexandria, a portal dedicated to the preservation of canceled, forgotten or restarted video games; And this is one of those cases. The game, which was to be based on the also canceled homonymous film, was being developed by the Eurocom company before the agreement between managers did not bear fruit.
The company, founded in the United Kingdom in 1998, was dissolved in 2012 by Activision, which ended its activities with GoldenEye 007: Reloaded in 2011. In its curriculum are works such as Crash Bash for PlayStation, Spyro: A Hero's Tail , Quantum of Solace or Dead Space: Extraction, the Wii exclusive.
Eurocom's goal was none other than to recreate the open world of the highly acclaimed and loved by Spider-Man 2 fans, one of the best-recognized video games based on the character alongside the recent PS4 Marvel’s Spider-Man.
The prototype shows many environments yet to be completed, with scenarios with hardly any detail but with clear foundations at playable level. Beyond fighting in three dimensions and the possibility of moving around Manhattan freely, new playable mechanics that took advantage of the console hardware and Wii motion control capabilities were to be included. Beyond that, he advances something that had been rumored for years: the main villain of that film, The Vulture.
What happened to the canceled Spider-Man 4 movie?
To put things in context, after the success at the box office of Spider-Man (2002) and Spider-Man 2 (2004), the stumble of Spider-Man 3 (2007) in criticism despite its good box office disrupted the plans of Sony Sam Raimi, director of the trilogy, had different disagreements with the Japanese giant. Spider-Man 4 was initially planned to be released in theaters in 2011; In fact, several sources point out that the film was in development in 2008 with the main cast intact: Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst as MJ. He had also planned a fifth installment, but none of these plans materialized.
What happened is already told in the history books: the film franchise was restarted in 2012 by Marc Webb with The Amazing Spider-Man, which had a sequel in 2014. After that, the rights in cinemas of the trepamuros passed to hands of Marvel, an agreement that has faltered during this year 2019 but that has allowed another restart with, so far, two films (Spider-Man Homecoming and Spider-Man Far From Home) of great success at the box office and the appearance of the character in other tapes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
