David Fincher’s Spider-Man Would’ve Skipped Origin Story, Started With Gwen Stacy Tragedy! ‘Gone Girl’ Director Wanted To Introduce Spidey With A History Of Loss: ‘I Wanted To Kill Gwen Stacy’

David Fincher's Spider-Man would've skipped the origin story, if the "Gone Girl" director had his way at the movie adaptation. With Sam Raimi apologizing for how his take on Spidey turned out and Andrew Garfield sharing the same sentiment for his version of the Web-slinger, David Fincher's vision of Spider-Man is considered in retrospect.

A 2011 io9 interview detailed how David Fincher's Spider-Man would've played out, and it's unconventional that the director would've skipped the origin story altogether. His comment during the promotional run of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo":

"My impression of what Spider-Man could be is very different from what Sam [Raimi] did or what Sam wanted to do."

Considering Raimi's recent apology for "Spider-Man 3," it's possible Fincher may have taken the series on a better path.

"I think the reason he directed that movie was because he wanted to do the Marvel comic superhero. I was never interested in the genesis story. I couldn't get past a guy getting bit by a red and blue spider. It was just a problem... It was not something that I felt I could do straight-faced. I wanted to start with Gwen Stacy and the Green Goblin, and I wanted to kill Gwen Stacy."

It turns out Fincher wanted to start the series with Gwen Stacy and her tragedy, the story arc played out in the Marc Webb reboot.

Fincher was in talks to direct the 2002 "Spider-Man," but he declined. His name came up again in news of a series reboot before Marc Webb was confirmed. Apparently, Fincher wanted to jumpstart the series with a tragedy, in the same core of the Batman and Superman story arcs (cinemablend.com).

"The title sequence of the movie that I was going to do was going to be a ten minute - basically a music video, an opera, which was going to be the one shot that took you through the entire Peter Parker [backstory]. Bit by a radio active spider, the death of Uncle Ben, the loss of Mary Jane, and [then the movie] was going to begin with Peter meeting Gwen Stacy. It was a very different thing, it wasn't the teenager story. It was much more of the guy who's settled into being a freak."

David Fincher's "Spider-Man" offered a more serious take on the superhero, with a string of losses already covered in the backstory.