He turns into this kid with these powers and he has this fantasy of being Spider-Man, and he makes this suit and it's terrible, and then he has to improve the suit, and his big problem is the damn suit. Or Superman and the Daily Planet and all that sort of thing, where it always felt very kind of metaphorical and fairytale-like. So you're in a real world, you're not in some mythical Gotham City. Superheroes in general always came off as kind of fanciful to me, and I wanted to do something that would have been more in the vein of Terminator and Aliens, that you buy into the reality right away. "I wanted to make something that had a kind of gritty reality to it. Regissören hade flera samtal med Stan Lee om projektet men i slutändan användes många av radarparets idéer till Sam Raimi filmen istället. He's kind of geeky and nobody notices him and he's socially unpopular and all that stuff." He goes by Spider-Man, but he's not Spider-Man. The first thing you've got to get your mind around, is it's not Spider-Man. I didn't make a move without asking permission. "I think it would've been very different. I en intervju med Screencrush berättar Cameron nämligen om hur han under flera år efter Terminator 2 hade haft premiär försökte få igång inspelningen av en Spider-Man film.
Men trots en lång och diger karriär finns där fortfarande ett drömprojekt han aldrig fick chansen att göra. James Cameron är utan tvekan en av de största namnen bland Hollywoods regissörer och tack vare honom har vi fått åtskilliga klassiker så som Alien, Titanic och Terminator 2.