Continuing our unending fascination with the process of making another stupid Spider-Man movie, we’ve learned (thanks, Twitter!) that Spider-Man 4 has been scrapped. Instead, Sony Pictures is going ahead with Spider-Man 3D, a re-boot that puts Peter Parker back in high school. Good God. Not that goddamned radioactive spider again.
Nor will director Sam Raimi or actor Tobey Maguire return; when no decent script was forthcoming, the former walked, and the latter followed. Considering the script for Spider-Man 3, which Raimi did make, one can only imagine the piece of garbage turned in for #4.
The release date for Spider-Man 3D is summer 2012.
Deadline Hollywood’s “Spider-Man 4 Scrapped” story.
This is too bad. High school is lame and the new movie will be too.
Sam Raimi rocks.
Ugh. The reason why Spider-Man 3 was terrible is the fact that the studio(Columbia/Sony Pictures) wanted a well known villian(The Venom) in it. Vulture was apparently Sam’s first choice for S-M3, as he has outspoken several times that Venom was his least favorite.
The way I see it, let Sam Raimi have control, hire decent screenwriter(s) and focus on just one villian. This is what, how I feel, made Spider-Man 2 so much better than Spider-Man 3. Not to mention, Alfred Molina did an incredible job as Dr. Octopus.
Oh well, the franchise is done for since the second sequel. Sam Raimi needs to do more original films, perhaps something funand hopefully in the horror genre.