It’s no secret that the superhero genre is wildly popular right now, with a number of shared universes competing at the box office and via streaming services. But there was a time when these projects were more rare, like during Sam Raimi’s tenure directing Spider-Man movies. After that trilogy, a fourth installment of the sequel was spoken about, but eventually dropped. And Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway recently explained how close she came to playing Black Cat in Raimi’s scrapped Spider-Man 4. Cue the FOMO.
While she got to play a comic book femme fatale when Anne Hathaway starred as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises, she had an earlier opportunity to play another cat-inspired comic character: Black Cat. While appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, she spoke about almost getting to enter the Spider-Verse, saying:
