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Plans were in motion to continue the story with
a Sinister Six spin-off film and
The Amazing Spider-Man 3. Those plans never came to fruition, but Webb recently opened up about what would have been his attempt at a Spidey expanded universe.
“We were talking about the Sinister Six,” Webb told
Den of Geek of the film about Spider-Man’s super-villain squad. “They were going to make a Sinister Six movie before we did [
The Amazing Spider-Man 3]. But I wanted…Chris Cooper was going to come back and play the Goblin.”
Cooper appeared in
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Norman Osborn, the head of Oscorp, the father of Peter Parker’s friend Harry Osborn, and the man who traditionally becomes the Green Goblin in the comics. The character was thought to have died, leaving room for Harry (Dane DeHaan) to become the villain. The film also included Easter eggs for characters like Vulture and Doctor Octopus as teases for
Sinister Six.
There was even supposed to be a scene, ultimately cut from the final film, with a jar containing Norman’s head. Speaking to how he would have brought back the character for a third film, Webb said, “We were going to freeze his head, and then he was going to be brought back to life. And then there was that character called The Gentleman. We had some notions about how to do it, but I think maybe we were thinking too far ahead when we started building in those things. But it was a fun exercise. I look back very fondly on those days.”
The filmmaker also confirmed, “[Norman] was going to be the main villain. He was going to come out and lead the Sinister Six. We had talked about
Vulture a little bit, too, actually.”
Drew Goddard had been tapped to helm Sinister Six, but the combination of poor critical reviews for
The Amazing Spider-Man 2, low box-office numbers, and the Sony email hacking scandal upended these plans.
