‘Spider-Man 4′ Officially Cancelled
Spider-Man 4 was almost ready to begin principle photography, but the plug has been pulled. There will be no Spider-Man 4. Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire and the rest of the current cast are out. It’s not all bad news though, Sony is still planning to make another Spider-Man film. Rather than a sequel to the current series it will be a re-boot with young Peter Parker in high school.
Sony has announced that Sam Raimi, director of the first three Spider-Man films, has backed out of the next one due to creative differences. Star Tobey Maguire has also backed out now, and Sony is planning for the next film to be a total franchise reboot that will start with the Peter Parker character back in high school. This new film, which won’t be Spider-Man 4, is now set for release in 2012.
Raimi had told Sony that he couldn’t make the scheduled May 5th, 2011 release date for Spider-Man 4 while maintaining the film’s creative integrity. Sony responded by dumping the entire film, going back to a reboot script written by James Vanderbilt (Zodiac), and started the search for a new director and cast.
Here’s what Raimi had to say about the news, “Working on the ‘Spider-Man’ movies was the experience of a lifetime for me. While we were looking forward to doing a fourth one together, the studio and Marvel have a unique opportunity to take the franchise in a new direction, and I know they will do a terrific job.”
To me this is great news! I wasn’t excited about Spidey 4 anyway, not after the abysmal failure of a movie that was Spider-Man 3. I was never a fan of Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, this news means an all new cast! I’m thrilled, and besides, the new Spider-Man will still be out in 2012.
Source: FanBolt
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i think tobey maguire was the only one who the lovers of spiderman want to be in that role because he looks innocent and a strong little boy what a spiderman must look like and his expressions were simply great that only he could give and not the other one.most of the fans are set nervous by this action of producers and whomsoever are concern with this that of leaving tobey maguire for this major role.now its time to wait and watch that what this new guy would do to impress the audience because everyone likes tobey maguire as spiderman because tobey maguire is tobey maguire.mind it.