According to the illustrious Nikki Finke over at Deadline Hollywood Daily, Columbia Pictures has closed a deal that would see Spider-Man director Sam Raimi and star Tobey Maguire come back to make Spider-Man 4. I have no idea how many dumptrucks of money the studio must have used to entice the twosome back for a fourth round of superheroics but it has to be a lot. Let’s hope that the script for number 4 (written by Zodiac screenwriter James Vanderbilt) is a lot better than the fragmentary mess that was Spider-Man 3.
Finke also adds that Columbia/Sony wants to make Spider-Man 4 back-to-back with Spider-Man 5 since it’s now a logistical nightmare to coordinate getting these projects assembled so why not do two of them at the same time? Finke’s insider also mentions that when you hear the name of the actor that the producers want for the Spider-Man 4 villain you’ll know what comic book character he or she is supposed to be playing. So let me take a stab at this guessing game by naming some hot actors and linking them to what I think would be their Marvel Comics shoe-in role:
If it’s 300 star Gerard Butler: Kraven the Hunter.
If it’s Transporter action hero Jason Statham: the Vulture.
If it’s Babylon AD heavyweight Vin Diesel: the Rhino.
If it’s Pirates of the Caribbean guy Johnny Depp: Morbius.
If it’s Fast and Furious surfer dude Paul Walker: Electro.
Those are my choices (well, Mike Browne dreamed up the Depp as Morbius one and that’s tiiight.)
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