Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Almost Included Tom Cruise And James Cameron

Lest you think that Tom Cruise and James Cameron were chosen at random for this fictitious Spider-Man movie, this fun Easter egg is actually a callback to two points in real-life Spider-Man film history. In the late 1980s, Cannon Films started developing a Spider-Man movie, and Tom Cruise was being looked at to play Peter Parker. Then in the early 1990s after the previous project fell through, James Cameron began writing his own Spider-Man movie for Carolco Pictures, and it would have featured Sandman and Electro as the main villains and, similarly to what was done in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies, had Peter shooting organic webbing. However, due to legal troubles, this project was also shelved.

Article source: https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2467534/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-almost-included-tom-cruise-and-james-cameron