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"David Fincher has revealed that he wanted to kill Gwen Stacy in a Spider-Man movie. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo director - who was previously in the running for a Spider-Man film - has revealed how he envisioned the opening to the Marvel Comics&amp;#039; franchise. &amp;quot;My impression [of] what Spider-Man could be is very different from what [Sam Raimi] did or what Sam wanted to do,&amp;quot; Fincher told io9. &amp;quot;I think the reason he directed that movie was because he wanted to do the Marvel Comics superhero. I was never interested in the genesis story. I couldn&amp;#039;t get past a guy getting bit by a red and blue spider. It was just a problem. It was not something that I felt I could do straight-faced. &amp;quot;I wanted to start with Gwen Stacy and the Green Goblin, and I wanted to kill Gwen Stacy.&amp;quot;  Fincher was first in the running to helm a Spider-Man movie in 1999, and was once again mentioned when the reboot was first discussed. &amp;quot;The title sequence of the movie that I was going to do was going to be a ten minute - basically a music video, an opera, which was going to be the one shot that took you through the entire Peter Parker [backstory],&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;Bit by a radioactive spider, the death of Uncle Ben, the loss of Mary Jane, and [then the movie] was going to begin with Peter meeting Gwen Stacy. It was a very different thing, it wasn&amp;#039;t the teenager story. It was much more of the guy who&amp;#039;s settled into being a freak.&amp;quot; The rebooted Spider-Man franchise is being directed by Marc Webb, with Andrew Garfield in the starring role. Fincher recently discussed his comic book movie projects The Goon and Black Hole. Webb&amp;#039;s The Amazing Spider-Man will debut on July 3, 2012. Watch a teaser trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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