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Those who know me are aware that I have, shall we say, an affinity for Spider-Man. “Obsession” is a bit too strong of a word, but not by much: Peter Parker/Spidey has always been my favorite comic book character, and, now that I think about it, he’s one of my favorite characters in pretty much anything, actually.
And it kind of goes w/o saying that Michael Chabon is one hell of a writer, and he’s also—in case The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay didn’t tip you off—a big old comics nerd. So years ago, when news broke that Chabon was working on the script for Spider-Man 2, you can imagine how stoked I was.
Once Spider-Man 2 actually came out, though, Chabon only had a shared story credit—also getting credit for the screenplay was Alvin Sargent, as well as the Smallville team of Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Though Spider-Man 2 was pretty great, and easily the best of the Spidey movies so far, it was unclear how much (or how little) of Chabon’s work had made it into the film.
Well, Spidey/Chabon nerds can now find out exactly what a purely Chabon version of Spidey would have been like. Over at McSweeney’s, there’s a downloadable PDF of Chabon’s complete Spider-Man 2 script. “As far as we know, this script hasn’t been seen anywhere else,” McSweeney’s says, “and it won’t be seen here for long.” Grab it while you can, webheads.