“And all of a sudden, Sam looked at his watch, stood up and said, ‘Well, thank you very much for your time. “The meeting was going very, very well,” recalls Tolmach. He talked about how Spider-Man’s co-creator, Stan Lee, gave life to a character whose foibles and failures were just as important, if not more so, than his astonishing powers and death-defying feats of bravery.Īnd then, abruptly, Raimi stopped talking. He talked about how Spidey’s alter ego, Peter Parker, was the first time a nerdy kid like Raimi could actually see himself as a superhero and not some goofy sidekick. He talked about the painting of the web-slinger that hung on his childhood bedroom wall. (Calley and Ziskin died in 2011.) To break the ice, Raimi started talking about why he loves Spider-Man so much. When Raimi finally did get a meeting, he found himself in a room that included Sony Pictures CEO John Calley, Columbia Pictures chair Amy Pascal, Marvel Studios chief Avi Arad, Sony film executive Matt Tolmach and the film’s producer, Laura Ziskin. “And I said, ‘OK, well, tell them I’m number 19.'” There’s about 18 directors they’d rather have than you on a list,'” Raimi recalls. “My agent, Josh Donen, said, ‘They want to be honest with you. In the fall of 1999, Sam Raimi stepped into the offices of Sony Pictures in an impeccable black suit to pitch himself to direct “ Spider-Man.” He had no reason to expect he would get the job.
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