For Koepp, the appeal of James Cameron’s treatment of the Spider-Man script was how seriously he took the character and the world from the comics, something that had been missing from earlier treatments for a Spider-Man movie.
The biggest near-miss was James Cameron’s planned Spider-Man movie, for which the blockbuster filmmaker had written a script treatment as well.
The organic webbing that James Cameron originally wrote into his screenplay ended up as a holdover in Koepp’s script for Raimi’s Spider-Man.
It took Peter seriously as a character and it took a superhero movie seriously as a genre.