Spider-Man 4 Crawling into Theaters May 2011?
Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man 3 courtesy Columbia Pictures
Provided that taut
Tobey Maguire doesn't go to pot (or unless he is recast with, like, Jake Gyllenhaal or Vincent Chase),
Spider-Man 4 is a go and being eyed for a May 2011 release date.
"Nobody's signed anything on any dotted lines and I don't think there's an actual script yet, but as we all know [that's just a detail],"
The Closer's
J.K. Simmons (aka J. Jonah Jameson) tells us. "In films, they work backwards. They announce that
Spider-Man 4 will open on, say, Memorial Day 2011, they start the marketing campaign from there, and at some point they'll write and cast the movie."
Aside from Maguire's involvement and the matter of a director ("Maybe Sam [Raimi] will direct again?" Simmons muses), the big question surrounds No. 4's No. 1 baddie. My vote goes to Lizard (Dylan Baker has played Dr. Curt Connors twice, in Parts 2 and 3), though some spec it could be Vulture (too ugly, I say) or Kraven (ditto).
What's your take? What villain do you want to see wailing on the wall-crawler?
- Matt Mitovich, with reporting by Michael Maloney
