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TIL A Spider-Man script was wrote by James Cameron in the early 90’s, had the film gone into production, it would have stared Leonardo Dicaprio as Peter Parker, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Doctor Octopus, elements of the script were used in later movies.

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