It was a five-year deal, meaning the rights would revert back to Marvel if they didn’t make a movie by 1990.
According to a new report, Cannon Films landed the rights to make a Spider-Man movie in the mid-80s.
But things could have gone in a very different direction, as Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, almost made a horror version of the movie back in the 80s.
Admittedly, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, the heads of the studio, didn’t seem to have a grasp on the character of Peter Parker very well.