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Even a quarter-century later, David Koepp is still pretty much in awe of James Cameron’s audacity. While Koepp is the lone credited screenwriter of the first live-action Spider-Man movie from 2002, not every innovation and wrinkle in that landmark film came via the Jurassic Park scribe. In fact, the most contentious element was something Cameron dreamed up back in the ‘90s when he penned an 80-page “scriptment” (part screenplay, part treatment outline) for a Spidey film. Back when he gave the hero organic web-shooters. “He pushed the metaphor of adolescent sexual development really far,” Koepp told Variety during the movie’s…