Back in the 1980s, Titanic director James Cameron signed on to write/direct a Spider-Man film, and while that movie never actually saw the light of day, its detailed summary served as a major influence for Sam Raimi's Spider-Man.
When speaking with IGN, Spider-Man screenwriter David Koepp offered high praise for Cameron's summary and spoke about how it influenced his script. "But his treatment, it just took it seriously," Koepp said. "It took Peter seriously as a character and it took a superhero movie seriously as a genre. And you hadn't seen that before." Koepp then specifically mentioned how the organic web-shooters featured in Spider-Man were planned as part of Cameron's version.
"He had some very good ideas in it," Koepp said of Cameron's treatment. "I like the organic web-shooters, which some people liked and some people didn't, but that was his idea and I was happy to use it." As Koepp implies, Peter Parker's organic webs were somewhat controversial when Raimi's Spider-Man released in 2002, as in the original comics, Peter created his own mechanical web-shooters, as well as the fluid they used -- only gaining organic webbing thanks to the symbiote suit in the '80s.
Sony Pictures' Spider-Man released starred Tobey Maguire as the titular character, pitting him against the classic villain Green Goblin. The 2002 film spawned two sequels, releasing in 2004 and 2007, respectively. A fourth film was planned, but was ultimately never put into production, with Spidey being rebooted on film in 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man -- which did feature mechanical web-shooters.
The latest live-action film version of Spider-Man, as portrayed by Tom Holland, uses web-shooters as well. A third Marvel Cinematic Universe Spider-Man film is set to release on Nov. 5, 2021.