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When director Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man successfully swung to cinemas in 2002, moviegoers by and large were still oblivious to the extent—both financially and artistically—in which comic book movies would succeed, even after coming off the hit genre breakthrough that was 2000’s X-Men. Now, eighteen years and two Wall-Crawler iterations later, it has been revealed that the film in question was originally designed to kick off a more focused and pathologically potent story. David Koepp, who wrote the screenplay to 2002’s Spider-Man, reveals in an interview with Collider that his original plans had paced the film to start a Star Wars-esque…