Fluff-culture obsessed site Videogum can’t photoshop for shit, but they did hip us to the fact that Michael Chabon’s original script for the “Spider Man” sequel is online at McSweeney’s at the moment (and presumably for a limited time only? Someone’s going to ask for that thing to get pulled down).
Jigga what? Yes, remember that the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” was once hired to pen the sequel to Sam Raimi’s original “Spider-Man” movie.
But it never happened or at least, very little of his work showed up onscreen. The overwrought Spidey 2 script where Tobey Maguire fights Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) barely contained any traces of Chabon’s whimsy and instead his credit was reduced to a single story one (not a screenplay one).
Well, anywho, it’s up there for anyone that wants to read it. Presumably it’s better than the movie version, contains issues of bisexuality and Jewishness identity, but probably doesn’t contain enough action for geeks. Vgum says it’s like “reading Pulitzer Prize winning fan fiction.” We say “whateves,” and prolly won’t read it cause all we do with our stupid life is blog.
Update: Ok, for whatever inexplicable reason, we tried to read Chabon’s script this weekend and failed because we got bored. And more importantly, it seemed exactly the same as the final movie. Admittedly, we’re not experts on this film, but it’s been on TV enough that we’ve rewatched parts here and there, but is the whole script like this? The first 20-30 minutes seemed indentical to the final film (we got up to the part where Spiderman takes J. Jonah James to the rooftop to talk). Does it change at all? Does Chabon deserve a real screenwriting credit? Did anyone read in full? We’re curious what the differences are, but if we have to finish that film and rewatch the film, we might have to kill ourselves.
