Though his principal goal is pursuing his longtime crush, Mary Jane Watson Kirsten Dunst , Parker soon transforms himself into Spider-Man in order to combat evil, in the form of the Green Goblin, the villainous result of an experiment that the scientist Norman Osborn Willem Dafoe has performed on himself. Unhappy with this perceived debasement of his comic book creation, Marvel’s Stan Lee pushed for a new story and screenplay, written for Cannon by Ted Newsom and John Brancato. In Spider-Man 2 , he was an usher who refuses to let Peter enter the theatre for Mary Jane’s play when arriving late. Retrieved February 18, March 24, Spider-Man 1 of 6. A decade after Spider-Man debuted on the silver screen, Sony, Marvel, and Columbia decided to reboot the franchise instead of giving Sam Raimi a fourth film.