Not my thing, but thought some people might be interested. From Deadline Hollywood...


It's time to end once and for all the rampant speculation. Sony doesn't want any info to leak but I'm told that both star Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi will be returning to make Zodiac screenwriter Jamie Vanderbilt's script of Spider-Man 4. Sources tell me that Sony has recently locked in both veterans of Spider-Man 1 through 3. And I do mean recently because just a few weeks ago sources told me that Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal was openly discussing Tobey's potential replacements with various Hollywood agents because Tobey was hanging tough about a deal. "She was looking around to cover herself because Sony wanted him badly and Tobey wasn't sure he wanted to do it," an insider explained to me. (Later today, a Sony Pictures spokesman claimed to me on the record, "There was never anyone considered for the role but Tobey.")

There's no deal yet for Kirsten Dunst but Mary Jane Watson will be in the movie again. I'm told Sony "would never recast her" despite her rehab problems. But expect another gal part, too.

Gone is the black costume from Spidey 3, even though "dark" is all the rage in superhero movies right now given the enormous success of The Dark Knight. But I'm told the filmmakers won't be borrowing from the latest Batman installment because "Spider-Man is its own thing," one insider tells me. "Sam Raimi made the first serious superhero movie, and others followed. The difference between Spider-Man and Batman is that Batman is duelling with a dark side of himself, and that's not what Peter Parker's struggle is. Peter Parker has no dark side himself. In Spider-Man 3 it was the black costume. Peter Parker's struggle is about sacrifice."

Sony is taking its time officially hiring the movie's villain since principal photography doesn't start on Spider-Man 4 until next fall because of the recently postponed May 2011 release. I am told, however, that "once you find out who the villain is, you'll know who's playing it." That should lead to speculation that Dylan Baker's character of Dr. Curt Connors will ultimately turn into The Lizard as he did in the comic books. There's one other character that's been set up but is a real longshot -- Daniel Gillies, who plays John Jameson, the astronaut fiance of Mary Jane in Spider-Man 2. In the comics he becomes the villain Man-Wolf. Raimi has said in the past that he wants the best actors to play the villains in the movie, not necessarily the most famous.

Meanwhile, Sony is moving forward on its Spider-Man Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge of U2 to be directed by Julie Taymor, the Tony Award-winning director of The Lion King.

And Sony has hired a pair of screenwriters to get going on the Spider-Man 3 spinoff movie Venom. Given that comic book artist/writer and action figure maker, Todd McFarlane, who is one of the creators of the Marvel villain, doesn't think a Venom movie could do well with a villain as the central character, my sources think Sony should let Topher Grace, even though he was blown up at the end of Spider-Man 3 (yet a portion of the Venom costume survived), stay in the role because the likeable actor could be a a sympathetic evildoer.

I still haven't seen three. Heard it was pretty bad.

This makes me feel so good about not carrying about celebrity's lives -- I had no idea Kirsten Dunst was in rehab for anything.

And holy crap, a Spiderman musical written by U2??

Not really bad, just too convulted.

no the first two movies were bad, the third movie was a level of horrid that shouldn't be experienced by human beings.

Wait, what?

3 was so very, very awful.

Easily the best bit of the whole article, I know.

the abridged script for 3 is one of my favorites.

http://www.the-editing-room.com/spiderman3.html

well 1-2 were great, #3 is one of the all time shittiest movies in the history of the world

Spidey 3 was pretty bad, but they can redeem with two more kick ass movies.

john malcovich as the vulture

anne hathoway as felicia hardy..the VULTURESS..not the black cat..THE FUCKIN VULTURESS....

i hope this is bullshit, or fuck this movie right in its asshole..

Iron Man and The Dark Knight each individually pwn all three Spiderman movies combined.

paul blart mall cop pwns the spiderman movies

now youre just getting careless


both 1 & 2 were extremely solid, top notch i dare say.


3 had its moments i seriously would rather have dug out of my brain to never see again (namely the emo dance number) but even then, it was still entertaining

was 3 close to dk, hell no, but few are. as far as marvel movies go

X2
Spiderman
iron man
Spiderman 2
xmen
blade
blade ii
blade iii
daredevil
Hulk (norton)
hulk (ang)
punisher (war zone)
Punisher (jayne)
punisher (dolph)
X3
electra

Spiderman 2 is near perfect.

Larry David as The Vulture.

I started a Spiderman thread??!

nah spiderman 1 was good

2 kinda bored me, to be honest..was never a big doc ock fan

3 was a trainwreck..had some cool parts, but fuck it overall..peter turnin emo and gettin in a dance off..venom gettin like 5 mins of screentime..'i forgive you'..

rumor is that they wont put in the lizard bec its too unrealistic and they want a character with a human face..which is one thing that fuckin pisses me off about these movies..that fuck tobey mcguire is constantly showing his face in costume..i dunno if its his choice or the producers..but its fuckin bullshit..only a select few know sms secret identity..you dont have to show his face every final scene for gods sake..plus that scene on the train..wtf already

a lot of bad posting going on here, namely by people giving credit to spiderman movies.