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Nicolas Cage as the Green Goblin? It will always be one of Hollywood’s great might-have-beens
Cinema’s great maximalist going full pumpkin-bomb pantomime in the 2002 film might have dragged it into an even more operatically deranged dimension
TL;DR
- Nicolas Cage was considered for the role of the Green Goblin in Sam Raimi's 2002 Spider-Man film.
- Cage turned down the role to star in 'Adaptation,' a decision he believes was correct for him.
- He proposed a scene where Spider-Man crawls like a spider when alone.
- Cage's distinctive acting style might have made his Green Goblin more operatically deranged.
- Willem Dafoe ultimately played the Green Goblin, delivering a performance praised for its precision-tuned lunacy.
- The article speculates on how Cage's maximalist energy could have impacted the film's heightened reality.