Before Spider-Noir, Nicolas Cage almost played the Green Goblin in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man

Nicolas Cage might be leading his own live-action Spider-Noir show very soon, but he almost played a very different Spider-Man character. Speaking to People, Cage shared that he almost played Green Goblin, the villainous role that eventually went to Willem Dafoe. Despite speaking to director Sam Raimi about the part, Cage instead chose Spike Jonze's Adaptation. "For me, that was the right choice at the time," he said. Green Goblin, AKA Norman Osborne, is the villain of the first of Raimi's Spide