By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Columbia Pictures.
Spider-Man 3
While it's still unknown (last I checked) whether Sam Raimi will direct Spider-Man 4 -- he will definitely be hands on, such as a producer -- the director recently admitted that the next installment's story is not up to him.
As a matter of fact, the story might not even relate to what we have seen already.
The Story on Spider-Man 4
Imagine watching the original Batman and then having the sequel be Batman Begins. According to Raimi, Spider-Man 4's story is out of his hands and completely up to the writers. The story doesn't even have to follow what's been laid down by the first three installments. Heck, it might not even need Maguire onboard.
ComicBookResources recently caught up with Raimi and learned just how hands-off Raimi is (in terms of story):
Is it important to you that the story follows on from the first three? I mean, how important is internal continuity to you? Can you go Evil Dead-style and change details a little bit, maybe change the story up a little bit?
Sam: If I was writing it I would have a very strong opinion about that, but we’re hiring a writer to come up with his own take. Sony was willing to go either way, we’ll just have to wait and see what the writer comes up with. I think anything’s possible, though.
I mean, there’s been so many different versions, it doesn’t have to follow the movies that we’ve made. I’d very much like to see Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man, so I have a personal interest in that, but certainly anything’s possible. Spider-Man’s such a big character in the comic books that he could endure a lot of different interpretations. You could start over or you could start with a different aspect of the story than I’ve focused on in the pictures I’ve made, we’ll just have to wait and see what the writer comes up with.
I know I say this often, but Spider-Man 3 was easily the worst installment of the three so far, so I'm down for anything that requires switching things up. Just be sure to keep J.K. Simmons on.
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