Trivia / Spider-Man: The Movie

• Ashcan Copy: The Kellogg's Mail-In PC Demo was nothing more than a re-skinned version of Spider-Man, but with the default costume being re-textured to look like the movie's costume, the intro cutscene and opening Stan Lee dialogue removed (all other cutscenes are still in the game), and it would go up to the fight with Rhino before ending.
• Cast the Runner-Up: Josh Keaton was originally going to voice Spidey and did many of his lines, but Tobey Maguire became available at the last minute. Keaton's lines were used for Harry Osborn instead, and would go on to get his chances at playing Spidey.
• Creator Backlash: Jamie Fristrom, one of the designers for the game, was unsatisfied with the way the web-swinging worked since in his words, it looks like Spider-Man was flying instead of swinging as Spider-Man. The executives told him it was too late to change the mechanics as the levels were already done. He decided to use his prototype mechanics for Spider-Man 2 and worked on it with Treyarch designers.
• Executive Meddling: In a nicer way. Jamie Fristrom wanted to change the swinging mechanics as he already developed a prototype as he was unsatisfied by the way the web-swinging worked. The executives told him it was already too late as the levels were already done and he agreed. He'd eventually decided to use the newer mechanics, albeit a prototype to be used in the second game.
• Orphaned Reference: Spider-Man's web use is limited in this game (as opposed to being organic like in the movie) due to Treyarch using an older script for reference in which Peter does use web shooters.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Cat O'Conner replaces Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane in this game.
  • Jay Gordon replaces J. K. Simmons and Randy Savage in the respective roles of J. Jonah Jameson and Bonesaw McGraw.
  • Josh Keaton replaces James Franco as Harry Osborn.
  • Peter Lurie replaces Ron Perkins as Mendell Stromm.
  • An unknown actor replaces Cliff Robertson as Uncle Ben.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Originally, Treyarch wasn't working on a movie tie-in game, but instead an Updated Re-release of the first Neversoft Spider-Man game for the PlayStation 2. The decision to shift projects came about when Activision struck a deal with Sony and Columbia to produce video games based on the Spider-Man Trilogy early on in development.
  • Sound files in the game's files reveal there was supposed to be a character gallery structured in the same vein as Spider-Man (2000), but with Tobey Maguire narrating instead of Stan Lee.
  • Also in the game's sound files was an alternate background to the "Race Against Time" stage, in which Green Goblin would threaten New York with EMP bombs instead of deadly gas.
  • A Multiplayer build was in development, but ended up getting cut.
  • As revealed in this E3 footage, there was an alternate game over screen where the front page of the Daily Bugle's newspaper would mock you on your failure.

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