News has surfaced that Gary Ross, writer of such films including Seabiscuit, The Tale of Despereaux, Dave and Lassie in the past and writer/director of some others (that we’ll discuss later), is being brought in to re-write the script of Spider-Man 4.
What does this mean for the movie?
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On one side, Ross was likely chosen because of his growing relationship with Sony which includes his directing of a Lance Armstrong cycling film and his work on the in-development Tokyo Suckerpunch.
On the other side, Spider-Man 4’s script is getting yet another rewrite meaning there are major issues with it (probably due to what happened in Spider-Man 3). This leaves me wondering what direction the film will take after the last movie and how, or if, it will lead at all into the Venom spinoff movie we’ve heard a lot about.
If you were expecting to hear any official updates as to who the villain(s) may be in the next installment, expect to wait a little longer with this news.
With these rewrites, I hope we get a solid and polished story for the movie. I highly disliked Spidey 3 and this needs return to the form of the first two. However, the difference is that I would like to see more of a real villain this time. We’ve seen far too much of the same formula of “I’m not really a bad guy, science did this to me” villains who redeem themselves at the end.
I wonder what Sam Raimi’s involvement with the script and story is this time around…
Interestingly, the only two movies Ross has directed, Tobey Maguire has starred in: Pleasantville and Seabiscuit which were both good movies. On top of that, they have two in-development films coming up in Tokyo Suckerpunch and The Crusaders. That gives me some hope at least.
What do you think of this fourth installment getting another re-write? Are they just ensuring the quality or is it a big mess?
Spider-Man 4 is scheduled to begin production next year and open May 6, 2011, sharing the summer with other heroes including Thor, Green Lantern and Captain America.
Source: Variety
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@ Matt keith
Actually the only thing i didnt like about Spider-man 3 was Peter’sdancing on the sidewalk. I think people over exaggerated about the whole 3-villain issue. To me, it was two villains which would be Sandman & Venom. I wouldnt count New Goblin cause he was made up for the script and only reason why Venom was in there in the first place was because fans wanted him. Fans just didnt like how it turned out so they only got themselves to blame aswell as the studio. If people like to think its 3 villains thats fine but Batman Begins, TDK, and even Superman 2 had 3 villains and they were great. Actually Superman 2 had 4 villains if you count Lex Luthor. Bottom like im makin is Spider-man 3 wasnt that bad that people want it to sound like cause ive seen worse ones. Instead of blaming Raimi, maybe blame the studio and other fans who wanted Venom in the film cause Obviously Raimi never intended to use Venom till the studio pushed for it.
BTW, another reason i wouldnt count New goblin as a villain was because he was pretty much like Darth Vader in a way cause we hardly see harry be evil throughout the filmm not to mention how he learns the truth of what really happend to his father and him helping spidey. So i wouldnt count him 100% villain.
If you ask me “Spiderman 3″ had four villians b/c MJ’s whining was more meanacing that Venom and Sandman and Harry put together. The studio and Raimi are to blame for Venom. Yes, the studio forced him to use the character, but Raimi did a piss poor job of handling the character.
Well if Raimi did a piss poor job, then the movie would have to be longer. Or Raimi would have to cut more scenes Of Sandman or even harry for that matter cause i highly doubt the studio will grant more money to the film. Plus i recall MJ whining in all 3 films.
Yeah, Mj whined in all three, but not to the point where the film should have been called “Spiderman 3: Adventures in Mj’s Acting Career”.
He only hated Venom because he lacked humanity or looked too extreme in the comics. I think that can be very simple to take care of.
i think it is time for a daredevil cameo in the spiderman movie 4 & 5. if that can’t be done then marvel should start making superhero team-up movies like spiderman & daredevil or spiderman & fantastic four.
@ michael
That would be nice and a long shot cause Marvel doesnt own the rights to those heroes. For somthing like that to happen is if no-one goes to see another Spider-man, X-men, F4 etc and hope Marvel buys the rights from Columbia, 20th century Fox etc.
Then again, we might get lucky cause Paramount and New Line worked together to make Friday the 13th remake. And Paramount and 20th Century Fox made Titanic. So hopefully somthing like that will happen.
Anybody go to the website Rob Keyes posted lately?(writer hired for Spiderman 5 and 6)
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