After having his enjoyable returning to the superhero world of Marvel 4 years in the past, Sam Raimi has a definitive replace on the probabilities of Spider-Man 4 shifting ahead.
The celebrated Evil Lifeless creator memorably helmed the Tobey Maguire-led Spider-Man trilogy within the early 2000s, properly earlier than the webslinger would make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut. Raimi did have plans for a fourth movie, which was anticipated to contain the Vulture and Mysterio as antagonists, however as a result of numerous inventive setbacks and delays, he elected to depart the franchise altogether, with Sony later rebooting it with Andrew Garfield’s The Wonderful Spider-Man.
Each Raimi and Maguire ultimately reteamed with Marvel Studios, the previous for Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity and the latter for Spider-Man: No Approach Residence, sparking hopes for his or her scrapped fourth movie to come back to mild. Now, in an interview with ScreenRant‘s Ash Crossan for his horror-thriller return in Ship Assist, Raimi is definitively shutting down the probabilities of his Spider-Man 4 occurring.
The director started by expressing his continued love for the franchise and “the producers that make it,” whereas additionally praising Marvel Studios for being “higher than ever” after his expertise engaged on the Physician Unusual sequel. Nonetheless, he went on to clarify that Maguire’s Spider-Man and Kirsten Dunst’s Mary Jane Watson “have gone elsewhere” as each Garfield and Tom Holland’s reboots led to the unique universe persevering with off-screen.
With the franchise “following a brand new artist” in Holland and immersing audiences “actually into his story,” Raimi additional opined that it would not “be proper for me to return and try to resurrect my model of this story.” As a substitute, the director feels he is “needed to go the torch fortunately” and is “honored to have” had it at one level, praising the character and his comedian e book historical past:
Stan Lee’s nice character — {that a} bullpen of writers in New York at Marvel had provide you with tales for — he created the character, however so many individuals contributed, so many artists, that for a short time I used to be handed the torch to hold on after 40 years of Spider-Man comics. After which after my three films, I handed the torch off to another person. And I believe they’ve acquired to maintain operating with the storyline and the viewers that’s now following the torchbearer.
Maguire’s return as Peter Parker for Spider-Man: No Approach Residence was some of the notorious surprises of 2021 in the truth that each he and Garfield’s roles have been the topic of quite a few leaks. Whereas Maguire had taken an performing hiatus within the years previous to its launch, and thus wasn’t as publicly seen in interviews, Garfield memorably needed to lie about his return in numerous interviews.
With No Approach Residence establishing that each Maguire and Garfield’s universes are nonetheless energetic, Spider-Man 4 hopes have been alive and properly. The Batman: Half II‘s Mattson Tomlin has been campaigning to get to pen the script for the potential fourth film, whereas Dunst and Sandman star Thomas Hayden Church have expressed their hopes to return. Maguire, in the meantime, has additionally shared his curiosity in persevering with to play his model of Spider-Man, with rumors swirling he’ll in Avengers: Secret Wars.
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Nonetheless, the largest factor that seems to be holding Maguire’s Spider-Man 4 again from occurring is that of Raimi. Within the years since helming Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity, he has frequently expressed a need to work with Marvel Studios extra, however has additionally stayed cautious on making the scrapped fourth movie, beforehand indicating he had no talks with them or Columbia Footage, and uncertainty it ought to occur.
Primarily based on his newest feedback, it does look like Raimi has formally closed the door on helming Spider-Man 4, as he factors to Holland’s deserving precedence focus over Maguire’s attending to return. That being mentioned, with The Multiverse Saga nonetheless underway within the MCU, and the Spider-Verse films that includes ties to each Raimi and Garfield’s films, there are nonetheless loads of alternatives for the earlier webslingers to maintain suiting up.
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Destin Daniel Cretton
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Chris McKenna