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Brand New Day Almost Featured a Spidey Villain Who Already Bombed at the Box Office (& The Film Had a Home Alone Connection)

Brand New Day featured Spider-Man dealing with a psychic who was terrorizing New York City, only to learn it was a young mutant named Jean Grey. However, Jean Grey wasn't in the plans when the script was started, and there were several different ideas for villains to appear in the movie.

Brand New Day Almost Featured a Spidey Villain Who Already Bombed at the Box Office (& The Film Had a Home Alone Connection)

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Brand New Day featured Spider-Man dealing with a psychic who was terrorizing New York City, only to learn it was a young mutant named Jean Grey.

However, Jean Grey wasn't in the plans when the script was started, and there were several different ideas for villains to appear in the movie.

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Brand New Day featured Spider-Man dealing with a psychic who was terrorizing New York City, only to learn it was a young mutant named Jean Grey. However, Jean Grey wasn't in the plans when the script was started, and there were several different ideas for villains to appear in the movie.

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