20 years ago today, I went to my local AMC theater to watch Spider-Man. While I was a bit annoyed at this film since it stole the thunder away from Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (which would be released less than 2 weeks later)—the one movie that I was definitely looking forward to in 2002—I was nevertheless thrilled to view this comic book flick as two of my old high school friends and I were extras in it!
As shown in the images above and below, we got to run back and forth on a fake set of New York's Time Square (built on a vacant parking lot at the city of Downey in California) while Spider-Man and the Green Goblin duked it out for the first time. A stuntman was dressed as the Webslinger while Willem Dafoe himself donned the green suit and performed the fight himself!
This scene was filmed back in March of 2001.
It was awesome to see Tobey Maguire back on the big screen as Spidey in last year's Spider-Man: No Way Home, while I can't wait to see what director Sam Raimi brings to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with next weekend's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness! Happy Tuesday.
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