Raimi Finally Starts Dishing on 'Spider-Man 4'
Will it be villain or villains? Lizard, Morbius... who?

I guess I missed something major when it was announced Sam Raimi was officially signed on to direct Spider-Man 4, which was recently confirmed for a May 6, 2011 release date, but I guess that's what happens when you don't particularly care for a specific superhero franchise, which is the case for me and Spider-Man. However, now the cat's out of the bag, Raimi and Tobey Maguire are aboard and pre-production is underway and with Raimi currently attending the South-by-Southwest Film Festival to debut a "work in progress" version of his upcoming horror Drag Me To Hell he is doing a bit of press and MTV cornered him and got a bit of Spidey non-information, but at this point I would think any kind of information would be interesting for Spidey fans. So who would I be to deny you of the pleasure?
When asked about the status of SM4 Raimi said, "The writers, producers and I are working out what the story will be, but we haven't been talking in terms of Part 4 and 5. I've read that [about Spider-Man 5] also, but right now we're just working on the story for Spider-Man 4, just that one film."
As for the story he is keeping that close to the chest and perhaps they haven't even quite figured it out as he says, "We're definitely talking about working from all the material in the comic books and nothing [invented] outside of that. All the characters or villain or villains, whatever we decide to do will be from Stan Lee's creations or those that came after him."
Of course the "villain or villains" comment is going to spark interest with all inquiring minds and Raimi does say he has a "pretty good idea" of who/what the villain will be "but I'm just not a liberty to say yet," he finishes.
Finally he comments on the casting of Kirsten Dunst, who is not yet confirmed for the cast, and says, "I can't imagine making a Spider-Man movie without Kirsten… Of course it can be done because Spider Man has existed without the character of Mary-Jane but she's one of my favorite parts and it would be a shame not to have her in the picture. I'm hoping she'll be in it and I'm planning on having a story with her in it."
So there you have it. With Drag Me To Hell hitting theaters on May 29 I can only imagine Spider-Man 4 rumors are going to become more and more frequent as Raimi does press, the story gets fleshed out and real casting begins. Stay tuned, I am sure this isn't the end of it.
As for the villains, any Spidey fans out there have a preference? We have all heard the possibility of The Lizard and I have also heard rumors of a villain named Morbius the Living Vampire, but anyone have any other ideas out there? I am clueless when it comes to comics, as the regular readers know, but I welcome the idea of being enlightened. Have at it in the comments.










