Fans of the Spider-Man movies who also happen to be completists have been waiting for every Spider-Man movie to be available on one streaming platform, so they can be enjoyed in a binge (without us having to get off the couch and trade DVDs in the player). Our dreams slowly have been coming to fruition as a chunk of the Spider-Man films have been made available to anyone with a Disney+ subscription, even though the Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield films were produced and distributed by Sony. While we wait for Tom Holland’s Far From Home and No Way Home to make it to the streaming services, we have been enjoying Garfield’s two movies… and thinking about the original ending for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which would have been insane.
Released in 2014, Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 tried its best to build an entire Spider-Man universe in one movie. Jamie Foxx received the powers of Electro. Dane DeHaan was turned into a Green Goblin, while Chris Cooper was introduced as Norman Osborn, then killed off and – in a deleted scene – had his head removed and placed into a cryogenic chamber. Weird shit. And in the original ending of that movie, during a mid-credits sequence, we would have seen Norman’s severed head, accompanied by the mysterious “Man In The Hat” we had been following for two movies. And according to Geek Tyrant, this mystery figure, identified as Mr. Fiers, would have said:
