It's interesting to speculate how the Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning director would have handled things, which until now was all guesswork. Recently however, Fincher revealed in an interview how his Spider-Man would have differed from Sam Raimi's. For starters, Fincher was not a fan of the overall tone of the film, saying he would not have made a Genesis story. Fincher says that the idea of Peter Parker being bitten by a red-and-blue radioactive spider that gives him super powers was laughable and he couldn't possibly direct the film with a straight face. He does say that he would have included the Green Goblin as the main villain, but he would have taken the approach that The Amazing Spider-Man is doing by including Gwen Stacy as Peter Parker's primary love interest.
And then Fincher was going to kill Stacy in the same manner as the comic books.
The movie was going to take an approach more similar to Batman, where Peter Parker has already been Spider-Man for quite some and is comfortable being a superhero. As far as explaining his origins, Fincher says the film would have opened with a 10-minute recap in music video or opera style, detailing how he got his powers, the death of Uncle Ben, and "the loss of Mary Jane"(?).
I really like David Fincher's movies. I really, really do. Seven and Zodiac are in my top 50 movies ever. That being said, I'm really glad Fincher rejected Spider-Man. Before Spider-Man, there was a trend in superhero movies to stray away from the source material to create more mainstream characters that the general public would like more. Since Spider-Man, comic book movies are sticking to the source material more than ever, especially as seen in Marvel's films. If David Fincher had directed Spider-Man, I don't think we would have ever gotten Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, or Captain America.
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