Alas, none of this came to pass. Fans didn't care for the world building on Marc Webb's Spider-Man films, with OsCorp being the driving force behind Peter Parker's suffering. Maybe it's because, as Andrew Garfield admits, no one driving this ship had any clue WHAT the bigger mystery was. How could fans get excited if the storytellers themselves had no idea in which direction they actually were heading? Listen to Garfield's comments on the man in shadows, as well as his praise of Tom Holland. I also love Mel Gibson's suggestion on who the man might have been: