The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was meant to kickstart an ambitious cinematic universe by\u00a0Sony. To achieve that, the movie featured multiple references to other characters from across Spider-Man’s world, such as Vulture\u00a0and Doctor Octopus. The movie was also supposed to feature\u00a0a post-credits scene teasing the future of the franchise. Ultimately scrapped,\u00a0the scene was going to center around\u00a0Norman Osborn’s detached head.<\/p>\n
In the film, Osborn (Chris Cooper), died from his mysterious “goblin” disease, Retroviral\u00a0Hyperplasia, but that was not meant to be the end of\u00a0him. Shortly after the movie’s release,\u00a0pictures<\/a> from the scrapped\u00a0post-credits scene came out. The images show The Gentleman (Michael Massee) walking away from Norman Osborn’s frozen head in Oscorp’s\u00a0“Special Projects” section.\u00a0According to Screen Rant, Fiers\u00a0was supposed to have said, “Wake up, old friend.”<\/p>\n Now, purported picutres of\u00a0the prop head used in\u00a0the film have surfaced online. If real, it\u00a0is… well, gruesome, to say the least. Facebook group Movie Props<\/a>\u00a0allows users\u00a0to share and sell items from\u00a0film productions. Recently, a user made a sales post<\/a> of what they\u00a0claim is Chris Cooper’s Norman Osborn prop head from The Amazing Spifder-Man 2 (pictures below are from X):\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a Facebook group for selling props and this is crazy pic.twitter.com\/qeqI31HD4i<\/a><\/p>\n
The prop is listed for $5,000 USD, and though we can’t verify its authenticity, the poster says the purchase includes a certificate of authenticity. Having said that, given its\u00a0remarkably realistic design, it\u00a0does appear to be legitimate. So far, the only looks we’d gotten at\u00a0Norman’s decapitated\u00a0head were of it inside a\u00a0cryogenic case. If real, the prop in these new pictures\u00a0provides a much better idea of how gnarly Norman’s “goblin” disease was.\u00a0<\/p>\n The design is surprisingly gruesome, feeling, perhaps, a little too graphic for a superhero film, particularly one starring the Wall-Crawler. Of course, the head might not have been shown in that much detail had it appeared in the movie. But, even with that,\u00a0it would have probably still\u00a0given some younger viewers nightmares.\u00a0<\/p>\n Now, if you’re not caught up in the lore that was the, frankly, insanely awesome plans for The Amazing Spider-Man franchise, you might be pretty confused as to why the movie would use\u00a0Norman Osborn’s decapitated head as a plot point. Turns out, his detached appendage was supposed to play a big part in the franchise. Speaking to Den of Geek (via Screen Rant<\/a>), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 director Marc Webb confirmed the third film in the series would have featured Norman Osborn’s frozen head, and him ultimately coming back to life:\u00a0<\/p>\n “Yeah, we were talking about the Sinister Six. They were going to make a Sinister Six movie before we did [The Amazing Spider-Man 3]. But I wanted… Chris Cooper was going to come back and play the Goblin. We were going to freeze his head, and then he was going to be brought back to life. And then there was that character called The Gentleman. We had some notions about how to do it, but I think maybe we were thinking too far ahead when we started building in those things. But it was a fun exercise. I look back very fondly on those days.”<\/p>\n Webb then confirmed Osborn was meant to be the main villain in The Amazing Spider-Man 3:\u00a0“Well, [Norman]\u00a0was going to be the main villain. He was going to come out and lead the Sinister Six. We had talked about Vulture a little bit too, actually.”<\/p>\n As maligned as The Amazing Spider-Man franchise is, its future plans sounded quite interesting. With these pictures showing Norman Osborn’s purported head, one cannot help but get excited about what could have been had the saga\u00a0continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n What do you think about this purported\u00a0look at Norman Osborn? Would you have liked to see his storyline play out in The Amazing Spider-Man series? Drop your thoughts in the comments!<\/p>\n
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