>>84261863You're being expected to believe that a writer with 0 experience of writing Spider-Man at the point at which Sony had a script they were already happy to shoot was invited to do rewrites, despite the fact he has no screenwriting experience and had 2 published issues of Spider-Man behind him at that point.
Truth be told, comics is not a guild profession. I don't even know that BMB was WGA accredited in 2000/2001 - which would make his or any other non-guild writers' involvement in writing for Sony a total fiction. Even uncredited script doctors have to be guild - the alternative is a writer's strike, and nobody wants to be the studio that provokes that, because it affects everybody.
It just wouldn't have happened. Generously, we can say he's maybe exaggerated a thing that happened on a set tour where he made fun of the costume and they didn't like him, but there's just no way he'd have been invited to "polish" any script. He's still a nobody - doesn't have the experience, doesn't have the connections. The fact he was writing for Marvel at the time and assigned a Spider-Man book doesn't make it any more likely that he would have been asked to write for a movie.
Looking at it as it really is - a story - it's a classic shell game. You have the prize - the sassy line Our Hero (Spider-Man, but by proxy BMB) delivers - you have the shells covering it (the unknowable inner workings of studios, the know-nothing executives, and the no-reply format of a comic book letters page, where only those who are chosen by the editorial team can see print), and you leave without any idea of which of these three things obscuring the prize "really" prevented it from becoming a reality.
Whereas in fact it's just made up, but the lie is covered by several layers of obfuscation, so you can't ever prove it's a lie unless you know when they started shooting, what that meant for the script, and how credits work.
I'm guessing it happened around release time, 2002? Reflected glory.
