Before Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy or the Marvel Cinematic Universe were considered the pinnacle of superhero storytelling, Spider-Man set a new precedent. The franchise hadn’t yet started, and even still, it had pulled in massive attention as this was the second big-budget superhero outing that Hollywood put faith in following 2000’s X-Men. At that time, the sky was the limit, and even the trailers showed the immense potential the movie had. But one trailer had to be altered heavily due to an unforeseen and truly tragic national event.
2002’s Spider-Man was the first time the hero had been seen on the big screen in live-action. The story, like many that came after it, told the origin of Peter Parker and how he was bitten by a radioactive (genetically enhanced) spider and gained powers. However, the movie also took some liberties, such as giving the hero organic web-shooters and making the Green Goblin his first villain. Even so, with these changes, it became a cultural phenomenon that no one could’ve expected. But this may have been due in large part to a teaser trailer that took the place of one that was pulled following the 9/11 terror attacks.
September 11th, 2001, was a dark day for the United States; two passenger planes careened into the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in a terror attack. A third struck the Pentagon building in Washington, DC, while a fourth crashed in rural Pennsylvania after the hostages fought back against their captors. The death toll reached 2,977 people — making it the deadliest terror attack in U.S. history — and the Bush Administration responded by launching the decades-long War on Terror. In many ways, life in the nation was never the same afterward. The lingering images from that day invariably focus on the World Trade Center, which the terrorists targeted as a symbol of American wealth and power. This led to them collapsing and taking hundreds of lives in the process — a slow-motion process that many Americans watched live on TV.
Before Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy or the Marvel Cinematic Universe were considered the pinnacle of superhero storytelling, Spider-Man set a new precedent. The franchise hadn’t yet started, and even still, it had pulled in massive attention as this was the second big-budget superhero outing that Hollywood put faith in following 2000’s X-Men. At that time, the sky was the limit, and even the trailers showed the immense potential the movie had. But one trailer had to be altered heavily due to an unforeseen and truly tragic national event.
2002’s Spider-Man was the first time the hero had been seen on the big screen in live-action. The story, like many that came after it, told the origin of Peter Parker and how he was bitten by a radioactive (genetically enhanced) spider and gained powers. However, the movie also took some liberties, such as giving the hero organic web-shooters and making the Green Goblin his first villain. Even so, with these changes, it became a cultural phenomenon that no one could’ve expected. But this may have been due in large part to a teaser trailer that took the place of one that was pulled following the 9/11 terror attacks.
September 11th, 2001, was a dark day for the United States; two passenger planes careened into the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in a terror attack. A third struck the Pentagon building in Washington, DC, while a fourth crashed in rural Pennsylvania after the hostages fought back against their captors. The death toll reached 2,977 people — making it the deadliest terror attack in U.S. history — and the Bush Administration responded by launching the decades-long War on Terror. In many ways, life in the nation was never the same afterward. The lingering images from that day invariably focus on the World Trade Center, which the terrorists targeted as a symbol of American wealth and power. This led to them collapsing and taking hundreds of lives in the process — a slow-motion process that many Americans watched live on TV.
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