Alberta-born Todd McFarlane drew Spider-Man comics for a time. Todd enhanced Spider-Man with his trademark style, popularizing a new way of rendering webs, transposing the character's human body to spidery positions and adding spider-looking eyes.
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Incidently, McFarlane also has a minority interest in the ownership of the Edmonton Oilers hockey club. In 2001, he co-designed the Oilers' third jersey, which became the biggest-selling third jersey in history
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| The plot of the movie, involving Peter Parker quitting crime-fighting, is largely inspired by The Amazing Spider-Man #50, "Spider-Man No More". The shot of Peter dumping his Spider-Man costume in an alley trash can is identical to a famous panel from that issue.
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Although Spider-Man in the comics was supposed to fight Dr. Octopus first, Sam Raimi was so attached to the idea of Spider-Man fighting the Green Goblin in the first feature film, though he did want to bring the idea of Doc Ock in a sequel.
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Sam Neill was considered to play Doc Ock, as was Robert De Niro
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Approximately $54 million was spent on digital effects alone.
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