Michael Keaton's Adrian Toomes wasn't always set to be a salvage worker. According to the Spider-Man: Homecoming screenwriters Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, Toomes was initially going to be someone much closer to Peter Parker's day-to-day civillain life. The duo spoke to Yahoo where they disclosed that Toomes was never going to be the cantankerous senior citizen he is in the comics.
"Once we started talking about Vulture, it was clear that the version in the comics wouldn’t do, where he was this bald old man. It just never felt terribly scary on film to us. So we thought, ‘All right, let’s make him more of a middle-aged guy.'
He was still stealing from Damage Control, but we had a different way into it. [Toomes] was going to be [Peter’s] teacher, and then we were like, ‘No, let’s separate him fully from the school — or at least so it seems.’ And that’s I think when we decided to make it the love interest’s dad."
It sounds as if the plan was to have Toomes have more of a relationship with Peter and the rest of his classmates at Midtown School of Science and Technology. Perhaps he would've even been the school's faculty sponsor for the academic decathlon team? How do you think the film would have played out with Toomes and Peter having daily interactions at school? Let us know in the comment section below.
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