Games" (Part 2). Gina Gershon as the ronin Shikata in the episode "Sword of Shikata". John C. McGinley as Richard Daimian in the episode "Sword of Shikata". Ethan Embry as Max Dillon / Electro in the episodes "Head Over Heels", "The Party" and "When Sparks Fly". Devon Sawa as Flash Thompson in the episode "Flash Memory". Tara Strong as Christina in the episode "Head Over Heels". Cree Summer as Professor Williams in the episodes "The Party" and "When Sparks Fly". Jeff Fischer as Doug Reisman in "Heroes and Villains" and "The Party". Production Development Spider-Man: The New Animated Series was initially supposed to be a direct adaptation of the Ultimate Spider-Man comics by Brian Michael Bendis, who also worked on the series' production and wrote the original unused pilot for Sony Pictures Entertainment, who had purchased the film and television rights to the character. However, after the success of Sam Raimi's 2002 Spider-Man film, the show was reworked to follow that continuity. The series was redeveloped by Morgan Gendel, best known as writer of the "Inner Light" episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Gendel, with the team of writers he hired, was given free rein by Sony to develop several original characters who fit in with the series' more adult tone, including Indira Daimonji, Shikata and the creepily telepathic Gaines Twins. The computer-generated imagery (CGI) was produced by Mainframe Entertainment. Peter Parker was originally supposed to wear baggier clothes to hide his superhero musculature, but cost-effective difficulties with the CGI format prevented folds from being put into his everyday attire. As a result, Peter's street clothes were redesigned to be close-fitting and contemporary, while still managing to hide his physique (and the costume he wore under his clothes) as Spider-Man. The character of Aunt May was not included in the series (except for a photograph in Peter's bedroom), because MTV executives feared that the appearance of any elderly people would deter their target youth audience from watching. The producers found that the more relaxed standards of MTV allowed them more creative freedom than usually allowed for a Saturday morning cartoon show. Cancellation MTV decided that, even though the ratings were high compared to other shows in the same time-slot, the series did not fit in with its other programming. Director Brandon Vietti stated that had the series gone on he would have used the villains Mysterio, Vulture, and more