Director Sam Remy signed a contract for the sequel one month before the first "Spider-Man" was released.
The film was filmed before the script was completed.
Robert De Niro, Sam Neal, Ed Harris and Chris Cooper were all candidates to play Doctor Octopus.
Toby Maguire was almost unable to continue to star in the film due to a back injury. Jack Gyllenhaal became the candidate to succeed him and even began to prepare, but then Maguire decided to play.
Kirsten Dunst gave up appearing in "Mysterious Village" for the film.
The film was originally scheduled to start shooting in February 2003, but Toby Maguire injured his arm, so the shooting plan had to be postponed for two months.
The digital special effects in the film cost nearly 54 million U.S. dollars.
The battle between Doctor Octopus and Spider-Man on the train was the idea of director Sam Remy, and it was the first major scene to be filmed.
Toby Maguire’s agent once offered Columbia a price of US$25 million or 10% of the film’s profit, but was rejected.
On its premiere day on June 30, 2004, the film set a box office record for the premiere day of more than $4.04 million.
The costume designer designed and produced 35 sets of costumes for Spider-Man, each of which required 30 experts to complete several weeks. Compared with the costumes in the first "Spider-Man", the new costumes have been slightly modified in more than 100 places.
Toby Maguire is a vegetarian, so the hot dogs he eats in the film are actually tofu hot dogs.
The director Sam Remy chose Alfred Molina because Molina's excellent performance in "Frida" left a deep impression on him.
The plot of buying Spider-Man clothes for $50 in the film alludes to the theft that occurred on the set of "Spider-Man" in 2001. At that time, it took the police 18 months to uncover it, and it was the work of the former company security. The Columbia company paid $25,000 in bonuses to the clues, and some experts estimated that each set of Spiderman's costume was worth about $50,000.
