For about a month now, there have been rumors of turmoil on the behind-the-scenes front of Spider-man 4. The production recently went on a month's break due to director Sam Raimi's problems with the latest draft of the script. It appeared that he wanted the film to focus on the villain of the Vulture (who was to be played by John Malkovich). Sony, on the other hand, wanted the film to focus on literally any other villain.
It was this disagreement over villains and story that led to the utter failure of Spider-man 3. However, unlike that unfortunate venture, Raimi stood his ground on this one. Many thought that this would only lead to a delay of production and another script re-write. However, it's much worse than that.
Earlier tonight, Spider-man 4 was scrapped. Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire have both walked away from the production.
This is really surprising news... and it's kind of upsetting. I really wanted to see Raimi make a respectable comeback in this series. He's been very vocal about the failure of Spider-man 3 and has been equally vocal about wanting to right his wrongs. Unfortunately, it looks like we'll never get to see this happen. Still, I'm proud of him for standing his ground and not letting all of this crap happen again. I can't believe Sony would be so ungrateful and belligerent after the man gave them two really wonderful superhero films. It's just insulting.
Sony will be picking up the pieces of this shut down by doing a Spider-man reboot, set for a 2012 release date. It will be scripted by James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) and will focus back on Peter Parker's high school days. While it will be nice to see Spider-man from a new director's eyes, I'll always be angry with Sony for denying Sam Raimi his chance to make one more respectable Spider-man film. It's just not fair to him.
Source: /Film
3 comments:
Wow, that totally sucks. I, too, was looking forward to Raimi's return. The idea of Malkovich as the Vulture sounds pretty killer. Why would they frown on that? Malkovich's performance in Burn After Reading (anyone else see him hack that fuckin' dude's head up?) kept the movie afloat for me. He'd be great as the Vulture. That would be an interesting villain to see on film.
The 2012 reboot doesn't sound that interesting to me. I don't really give a shit about Parker's high school days. I hate that this series has been botched.
Better update this.
Malkovich as The Vulture??? That would have been awesome! I just watched the first Spider-Man the other night and I had completely forgotten how much fun it was.
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