Sam Raimi Promised Creative Control for SPIDEY 4

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Good news for Spider-Man fans (hopefully). After what appeared to be an overly studio controlled Spidey 3, Marvel looks like they're actually letting Raimi do his thing and in a Citizen Kane/Orson Welles fashion, granting him creative control over Spider-Man 4. Even if you enjoyed Spidey 3, this still seems like good news.

In an interview with Empire for this May’s issue, Raimi openly talked about some of the problems with Spider-Man 3 and confirmed some rumors we all heard about two summers ago when the movie was released.

“They really gave me a tremendous amount of control on the first two films, actually. But then there were different opinions on the third film and I didn’t really have creative control, so to speak.”

There were rumblings that Raimi wasn’t allowed to truly do his own story and that producers forced him to include the popular Venom character as one of the villains in the story. When asked about that, Raimi responded:

“I don’t even want to comment on Venom, because I know he’s a great character and all the fans love him. I never want to say anything bad about a much-beloved character because usually it turns out that I’m the one that doesn’t understand what makes it great.”

It sounds promising that the next movie will return to the quality we’ve come to expect from the first two films in the franchise. I’m glad that Raimi is back in the captain’s chair (for real this time) and that Tobey will be back as Peter Parker. We also know that Raimi really wants Kirsten Dunst back as Mary Jane but no deal has been made on that front as of yet.

Source: Screenrant


UPDATE
Raimi confirms he has been given FULL CREATIVE CONTROL over the 4th film, and that the script will be completed by summer...also another quote from Raimi:

He added that "The best way for me to move forward on films, is that I've got to be the singular voice that makes the creative choices on the film. I love Spider-Man so much that I'd like to continue telling Spider-Man stories. But only under those circumstances where I think I can honour him."

Source: ComingSoon.net