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One of the biggest unmade superhero films in Hollywood history continues to be Drew Goddard's Sinister Six movie. The creator of the Netflix Daredevil show got to work on his own movie featuring Spider-Man villains before Sony Pictures pulled the plug on the production after the studio was hacked in 2014. 

On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Goddard revealed that the script had been completed for the movie, and that they were in "deep prep" to begin production on it when the hack happened. "I had a whole art department... we had a whole operation there at the Sony lot. It was a very Drew approach to a Spider-Man movie, I would say in the sense of like, I was swinging for the fences." 

Goddard thought of the story he had put together for Sinister Six as "a summer annual." He explained, "I felt that comic books became very much about this serialized story, the movies became so much about like, 'Well this movie is just about somebody gets a jewel to get to the next thing to get to the next thing.' And it worked really well. But what I loved about summer annuals in the comic book world was that you had the serialized story, and every summer, there would be a giant-sized issue that had nothing to do with the serialized story, where the main character got yanked out of the normal life and thrown into an insane situation. And that's what I wanted to do with Spider-Man. I just thought that would be fun." 

The writer-director remembers the dramatic moment when he found out about the Sony Pictures hack, because FBI agents swarmed the studio lot and there were helicopters flying overhead. "We were one of the casualties of [the attack]," said Goddard, referring to how the film was axed from Sony's production plans. 

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