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Well in 1999 Michael wanted to buy Marvel because he envisioned bringing Comic book movies to life and he specifically wanted to play spiderman.. He met with Stan Lee and expressed his wish... The fallowing year what happened... Spiderman went into production which kicked off the Comic book to film craze that is STILL making huge success in the box office..
Holy shit son, talk about a
massive stretch, Michael Jackson had
nothing to do with the 2002 Spider-Man film! In fact, the film itself has quite a long line of development hell and was drowning in legal rights issues; Michael Jackson being interested in playing a character (who btw is meant to be half his age) would not have gotten it out of development hell. In fact, Stan Lee was never sure if Michael wanted to play the character or produce it because Lee says that the conversation never got that far along
[Source].
Marvel had been trying to get a Spider-Man film off the ground since 1985 with even James Cameron writing a scriptment at one point. It's a bit complicated but the gist seems to be this: Cannon Films held the rights from 1985 and the film went into pre-production with even Tom Cruise being looked at to play the hero. In the late 80s, Cannon Films was having a financial crisis and after $1.5million had been spent on the film, production was shut down. Extending his rights with Marvel to late 1992, Cannon Films' chief Menahem Golan then became part of 21st Century Film Corp (not to be confused with 20th Century Fox, they're two separate companies). Another company in 1990 called Carolco had a completed Spider-Man screenplay by James Cameron, with Cameron then submitting another scriptment with an alternative story some time soon. In 1991, Marvel, 21st Century and Carolco all entered into an agreement that replaced the one made earlier between 21st and Marvel. With this, deal for Marvel to have the rights to Spider-Man had a film not been completed was pushed to May 1996. In the years after, attempts were made to get the film off the ground but the film became entangled in a series of legal rights issues. Eventually in 1996, all three companies became bankrupt.
MGM acquired all the rights to 21st Century's film library and assets, including all the drafts to the Spider-Man films up to that point. MGM then sued 21st Century, Viacom and Marvel but the courts had determined that Golan's rights to the film had expired and thus returned the rights back to Marvel in 1998. In 1999, Marvel licensed the rights to Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures and MGM disputed the legality, still claiming it had the rights to the Spider-Man films. In March 1999, they finally came to a deal. Columbia Pictures would give up the rights to a new James Bond series to MGM, and MGM in return dropped it's case and allowed Columbia/Sony to make the new Spider-Man film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_in_film#Development
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_(2002_film)#Development
http://variety.com/1998/film/news/spider-man-s-legal-web-may-finally-be-unraveled-1117479641/
It's pretty clear that Marvel had made multiple attempts to get a Spider-Man film off the ground since the mid 80s but a huge number of obstacles kept getting in the way until the turn of the century. Michael Jackson had nothing to do with any of this.
