Raimi wants to see script before he decides on Spider-Man 4
Sci Fi Wire reports that Spider-Man director Sam Raimi is waiting to see James Vanderbilt’s script before he decides whether he’ll direct the fourth installment of the franchise.
“I’m hoping it’s as great as our discussions were about it and hoping it feels right for me, because I love Spider-Man, and I’m hoping I’m well-enough rested to, like, really embrace it and hoping that Sony wants me at that time to direct it,” Raimi told reporters in Century City, Calif. “So if all those things come together, I would love, love to do it. But this is a lot of unknowns about the future.”
Raimi’s involvement in Spider-Man 4 seems key to the return of lead actors Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst.
The Ticker
• Platinum Studios and Vanguard Animation have formed Vanguard Comics, an imprint to develop properties to be released simultaneously as comic books and movies. The first project is Kevin MacDougall’s Illegal Aliens, one of the 50 finalists from Platinum’s Comic Book Challenge. [Variety]
• The live-action Witchblade movie will be directed by Michael Rymer (Battlestar Galactica) from a screenplay by Everett De Roche. [Bloody Disgusting]
• The Transformers sequel is called Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. [Hasbro.com]
• I guessed wrong on Tuesday: Ben Kingsley will play villain Nizam in Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, not Vizier. [Variety]
