Having great power and responsibility is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Spider-Man, from the cheap attempts by Cannon Films, to the endless lawsuits that prevented the movie from getting made.
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In the entertainment world, there are millions of dollars on the line and troubled productions are bound to happen. Whether it’s big egos, bigger budgets, or just plain bad luck, we are going behind-the-scenes on these disastrous, never ending, and sometimes dangerous productions. From the creators of WTF Happened To This Movie?, It Was A Sh*t Show is a video essay/documentary/podcast series looking at some of your favorite films and tv shows, and why they were such a nightmare to make.
Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
00:32 – Spider-Man’s Creation & Early TV History
02:32 – 1970’s Amazing Spider-Man & Supaidāman
03:56 – Roger Corman’s Attempt
05:07 – Enter Menahem Golan & Cannon Films
06:52 – Ted Newsom & John Brancato’s Faithful Script
10:17 – Cannon’s Downfall
12:54 – Golan Starts 21st Century Film
15:27 – James Cameron’s Take
19:18 – Legal Battles & Bankruptcies
22:59 – Spider-Man vs James Bond
24:44 – Avi Arad’s Comic Book Gold Rush
27:25 – Finding Director Sam Raimi
30:20 – Fighting for Tobey Maguire
31:32 – More Writers & Arbitration
33:01 – Troubles & Tragedies
36:03 – Spider-Man Releases May 2, 2002
Sources:
ABC News:
Best Movies Never Made:
Bleacher Report:
Business Insider:
BusinessWeek:
CBR:
Dark Horizons:
Den of Geek:
Digital Spy:
Empire:
The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made:
Los Angeles Times:
HuffPost:
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios:
New York Times:
Orlando Sentinel:
ScreenCrush:
Spider-Man Confidential: From Comic Icon to Hollywood Hero:
Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book:
SyFy:
Tech Noir: The Art of James Cameron:
Variety:
Yahoo:
CinemaBlend:
Tue Nguyen:
Featured Footage:
The Amazing Spider-Man (1977-1979)
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Batman (1989)
Blade (1998)
Captain America (1990)
Captain America The First Avenger (2011)
Casino Royale (2006)
Cyborg (1989)
Daredevil (2003)
Daredevil: Born Again (2025- )
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
The Electric Company (1971–1977)
Hulk (2003)
Indian Summer (1993)
Masters of the Universe (1987)
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)
Spider-Man (1967-1970)
Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994–1998)
Spider-Man (2002) and special features
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)
Supaidāman (1978-1979)
Thunderball (1965)
Titanic (1997)
The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989)
The Wolfman (2010)
X-Men (2000)
Music:
Chad Kroeger ft. Josey Scott – Hero
Danny Elfman – Spider-Man OST
Dashboard Confessional – Vindicated
Michael Giacchino – Spider-Man: Homecoming OST
New Order – Confusion
Ron Dante – Theme From Spider-Man
Ryan Hudson – Sh*t Show Theme
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Oh come on I don’t have to be a troll to think the organic webs are dumb
No one should ever die making a movie. All the studios that have death counts should be shut down. Really all these studios should have their assets seized and given back to the public in some fashion. Disney is not the owners investors or the executives, Disney was built by the people and belongs to us as does Sony and all of the other culture hoarders.
And now the comic film is a laughing stock.
An alright video, but it'd be a lot better without the clip spam disrupting the flow of things.
34:11
How. How do you even allow this stuff to be stolen?
>Stolen Batsuit from 90s
What's the story behind that?
33:15 😂😂😂
" spider man where are you coming from"
26:37 I don’t ever wanna hear that sentence ever again in my life.
19:02 watch out boy I might bag ur hoe
Another super in-depth, amazing video.
Also…Clint.
As someone that's been on a binge of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies, I've always wondered about how the production of those movies went.
29:01 what in the plastic surgery retaining water hell happened to Sam Ramie???
You keep flashing thumbnails telling us to watch something how about giving us the title of the video!? I’m 23 minutes in and can’t find either of the two thumbnails you showed so far
Stan Lee was full of it.
Decent new thumbnail.
24:19 And then Sony owned MGM for a hot minute in the mid-2000s, which briefly gave them distribution rights to the Bond films… including Casino Royale lol
36:37 what’s the rotten tomatoes audiences problem with that movie ?? Only 67? I thought people adored the Raimi trilogy now
Spooder man!
Between this video & the Masters of the Universe podcast, Ian really can’t escape from Cannon Films.
Thank you all BTW for being one of the most entertaining channels I tune into. 🔥
That montage at the end has some stellar timing. The banger mixed with James Franco banging against the poles aligns perfectly!
26:10 I loved Blade from Spiderman TAS
25:38 nicce
This video is well written and performed and pretty well edited as well but homie the amount of 2-3 second clips from these movies or shows completely stopping the pace of your conversation has gotta get cut out
I always thought that organic web shooters made sense. I mean if you get bitten by a radioactive spider, naturally, you should get the spider ability to shoot webs. That's THE spider power to have, aside from the other abilities.
I can see that you could have him make make the web shooters first. Then, as time passes, the spider powers evolve and eventually allow him to make the webbing organically.
It's like if Bruce Wayne became Batman and never made the Batarangs.
Good vid, but movie clips were WAY too long in this episode. I wanna listen to the making of history, not watch the movie.
I feel like it shouldn't be legal to split rights like that. It's one IP. How the hell can one company have rights to home video and another have rights to theater? That's just dumb.
I wonder what bullshit twist M Night would put into a Spidey film
Bs they are pitting Sonys Spiderman against sony x men. They should team up if anything. They paved the road for everything people love now. Smh
The Sami Raimi trilogy was the bomb, I don't know why the title of this video is called that. Comment posted on August 23rd, 2026.
I'm not going to lie. Now I want to see a Spider-Man series set in Japan and revolving around giant mechs.
Another banger. Man. I've been glazing your channel for like 4 years now. I proudly claim i do tricks on your channels dick.
I know you didn't just lump fox4 and ghost rider in with Ben Affleck's daredevil. That's just being dishonest.
They're divisive at worst