The Amazing Spider-Man's Origin Behind the Origin

Just a heads-up: HUGE SPOILERS from Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man to follow.

While Sony's Spidey reboot was met with mixed-to-positive reviews, there's no denying that the film left a few dangling threads. However, it seems that a big chunk of footage was cut from the final film that would have allegedly altered the origins of Spider-Man.

Although Webb has since denied that he had plans to tinker the comic book backstory, a new deleted scene involving Peter, the Lizard and Oscorp henchman Mr. Ratha hints that it may have been Peter's father who provided the source of Spider-Man's powers.

Badass Digest offers the full (and remarkably thorough) breakdown of where some of these other missing pieces would have fit in to the larger narrative that was eventually cut.

The Amazing Spider-Man hits Blu-ray and DVD shelves November 9.

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Bay Responds to Reviews of Ninja Turtles Script

It was revealed a few days ago that the screenplay for producer Michael Bay's Ninja Turtles was leaked online, resulting in an outpouring of negative reviews. Among those who read the script was TMNT co-creator Peter Laird, who had this to say:

"I think the script that I read is so fundamentally flawed, and -- more to the point -- so NOT a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, that trying to make piecemeal changes to it in an effort to make it into something halfway decent is probably a fool's errand. In my opinion, the thing should just be tossed out, deliberately forgotten, and the process of generating a new script really a new outline, then treatment, then script -- should be started again."

On the whole, fan reactions weren't much better. However, Bay recently issued a response to this brouhaha, explaining the situation:

"The leaked script that different sites continue to comment on was written well before I, or anyone at Platinum Dunes, was involved with the project. That script saw the shredder a long time ago. This is tired, old news -- wait for the movie!"

Ill-timed "Shredder" pun aside, Latino Review also points out that the script had a 1/30/12 date, which was two years after Bay and Platinum Dune were attached the project in late May 2010. Suspicious, no?

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