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Spider-Man 2 Trivia

In Alfred Molina's first film, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, he was required to let spiders crawl all over his body.
Shipped to theaters in the USA under the title "Choices".
One of the Daily Bugle newspapers features a headshot of Spider-Man that is actually from a promotional image for the comic book mini-series Marvels (1994), which was painted by Alex Ross (VII) (who painted the recap images in this film's main title sequence).
By 2004, with $403.7 million box office earnings by the close of its domestic run, the movie was the fifth highest grossing picture of all time.
Alfred Gough and Miles Millar's initial script draft had Spider-Man doing battle with Doctor Octopus, the Lizard and Black Cat.
Tobey Maguire's participation was in doubt at one point because he was suffering severe back pains. Jake Gyllenhaal, was lined up to play Spider-Man and had already begun preparation, but Maguire decided to take part after all. However, according to the DVD commentary, the "My back!" joke after Peter falls from the roof was purely coincidental, as it was written into the script before Maguire's problem arose.
Despite the fact that this was filmed in Super 35, "Filmed in Panavision" is listed in the end credits.
There are several visual references to the first movie in this film: - Peter running into a burning building to save a child. - Peter running across a rooftop before trying (and failing) to shoot his web. - Peter putting out the trash in aunt May's back yard and speaking to Mary Jane. - Spider-Man lying incapacitated on the sofa of his enemy. - POV of Peter Parker looking through his glasses and seeing a blurred image.
Filming was originally scheduled in February 2003, but Tobey Maguire injured his arm, causing filming to be delayed two months.
The artist's rendition of Dr. Octopus when he appears on the front page of the Daily Bugle is how he first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #3: wearing a white lab coat and dark sunglasses.
Robert De Niro, Sam Neill, Ed Harris, and Chris Cooper were all considered for the role of Otto Octavius.
Alfred Molina is a big fan of Marvel Comics, and was excited about his role in the film.
David Duchovny and Liev Schreiber were both considered for the part of Doctor Octopus.
DIRTRADE (Sam Raimi): [POV shot]: The view from Dr. Octopus' tentacles attacking the doctors operating on him, which Raimi called "Octovision".
The train fight between Doc Ock and Spider-Man was the idea of director Sam Raimi and the first major sequence to be filmed.
Toward the end of the movie, it was rumored that The Punisher was noticeable, as that movie was based on a spin-off character from Spider-Man's comic book. This turned out to be false and is only someone who resembled Thomas Jane. This is purely coincidental. He was never intended by the makers to be the Punisher.
Following the first film's record-breaking $115 million opening weekend, Sony assigned the sequel a budget of $200 million.
When J. Jonah Jameson is needing a name for the newly villainous Doctor Octavius, one suggestion from Hoffman is the moniker Doctor Strange, about which Jameson is sarcastically excited, adding that the name has already been taken. This dialogue is referring to Spider-man's comic book ally of the same name who is also the other major co-creation of 'Stan Lee' and Steve Ditko.
Filming began before an official script was completed.
For the Chicago Loop fight between Spider-Man and Doc Ock, the production actually bought a train carriage from the Chicago authorities.
Took the record for highest one-day opening on a Wednesday from The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King.
The character of Hoffman, played by Ted Raimi, is only ever seen in Jonah's office, and he is never seen entering through a door, but always appears from off-screen.
According to Michael Chabon, early drafts of the script prior to his involvement featured Doc Ock, Black Cat, The Lizard, and Harry as the new Green Goblin. It was his suggestion to cut down the number of "costumed characters" to just Doc Ock and Spider-man.
CAMEO(Phil LaMarr): a passenger on the elevated subway train.
The address of Joe's Pizza is given in the comics as the address of Spider-Man's ally Doctor Strange.
According to an interview with Kirsten Dunst, early storyline included the Black Cat as a major character. This is confirmed on the 2-disc DVD commentaries.
The gear that Alfred Molina's character had to wear weighed 75 pounds.
On 30 June 2004, the film broke a record for highest one-day opening on a Wednesday: $40,442,604
Mary Jane's play was performed and filmed at the Ivar Theater in Hollywood.
Pre-production, scripting and casting were all finished within a year of the first film's release.
Tobey Maguire was paid $17 million for this film.
The precious substance that Doc Ock uses to power his fusion device - tritium - does actually exist in real life.
Like the first film, the DVD release of this movie includes a "Spider Sense" subtitles track which provides trivia about the film, characters, actors, etc, as the film is playing.
Costume designer James Acheson made subtle changes to Spider-Man's costume from the previous film. The colours were made richer and bolder; the spider emblem was given more elegant lines; the muscle suit underneath was made into pieces, to give a better sense of movement; and the helmet Tobey Maguire wore under his mask was also improved, adding a false jaw for better movement and magnetic eyepieces which were easier to remove.
The violinist Elyse Dinh begins playing the old theme song for Spider-Man. When she sings it for the second time, new lyrics are added to the tune ("Where have you gone to now?").
The hospital attack sequence took months for Sam Raimi and his storyboard artists to devise. It was the first part of principle photography to be shot.
The production was unusually lucky for such a big movie filming on numerous outdoor locations in that it never rained.
In the scene before Doc Ock approaches Harry about the Tritium, Harry is looking at pictures of Spider-Man. The clipboard that Harry slams down has two pictures on it. The one on the left is Alex Ross (VII)'s recreation of the first appearance of Spider-Man as seen in "Amazing Fantasy."
Michael Chabon submitted a draft screenplay which featured a younger Doc Ock becoming infatuated with Mary Jane. In Chabon's script, Octavius is the creator of the genetically modified spider that bites Peter Parker. Producer Avi Arad rejected the screenplay, largely because he didn't like the idea of another love triangle.
DIRTRADE(Sam Raimi): [drink]: the alcohol Maker's Mark appears in most of Raimi's movies
Took the record for biggest opening day ever with $40.4 million from its predecessor Spider-Man.
Doc Ock's upper tentacles were each made up of 76 individual pieces.
Testing with focus groups was done to help determine the film's title, at one point the titles under consideration were "Spider-Man: No More", "Spider-Man 2 Lives" and "Spider-Man: Unmasked".
EASTER EGG: On the second disc, go to "Making the Amazing", arrow up and the upper right tentacle (Flo) will light up. This leads to a short bit where Director Sam Raimi finds someone to give Alfred Molina "tips" on how to act like Doc Ock. They go over to the tentacles and inside, "acting" how Doc Ock should be played, is Willem Dafoe. Alfred gets a good laugh at this.
When Peter runs down the stairs to avoid the Russian landlord, the landlord says, in Russian, "Idiot! Why are guys like that even born?"
Opening sequence features artwork by artist Alex Ross (VII), which recaps the events in Spider-Man.
Doc Ock's pier lab is supposed to be an old building that is slowly sinking into the river (exterior shots show that one end is already partially collapsed). For the interior set, the floor and ceiling were tilted at skewed angles to each other - which is extremely unusual and difficult to construct safely.
Sam Raimi officially signed on to direct on 1 April 2002, more than a month before Spider-Man opened.
The movie was sent to cinemas under the name "Spray Paint" to try and avoid the attention of pirates.
The noise we hear whenever the spider web touches something (walls, Doctor Octopus, etc.) was made by hitting tape from a cassette and leather strips on the floor.