“Spider-Man 4” has hella script and production problems you say? Director Sam Raimi allegedly hates the script? Other studios smell blood in the water and have moved their release dates up? (“Thor” taking the same May 6, 2011 date, “Pirates of the Caribbean 4” taking the uncomfortably tent-pole-close date of May 20).
Tobey Maguire tries to bring some calm to the proceedings, telling the AP today, “Like anything, it’s a process. We’re just in the midst of the process. We have a lot of great stuff in terms of story and script. We’re just trying to dial it in and get it ready as quickly as possible. Of course, these movies are a very big undertaking and take a lot more time than a drama or something more straightforward.”
Apparently Marvel Studios reps declined to comment on the matter (does the AP mean Sony? Weird). Maguire insists that the film will still come out in 2011 (is that an almost certain sign that the May 6 date will now shift as we presume?) and said, “Not only do I have specific ideas [about the story], but the ideas are evolving on the page,” he said. “It’s all happening right now. It’s all sort of coming together. It’s very exciting to me. I think the evolution of the character is really exciting, to be rooted in the history of what we’ve done already and to have a continuity, yet have a progression or evolution.”
Alright that sounds like a little bit of spin, but it also sounds fair enough. We’ll just have to see where this nets out, but delays may mean they might lose actors like Anne Hathaway, who was rumored to be playing a character called The Vultress.
We just hope they’re caring about story and characters first and names later. This thing is big enough already. If you build it, they will come. No need to cram the next 3-4 big villains into the story (like they did with the unsuccessful, “Spider-Man 3”). And John Malkovich is pretty much all but confirmed as the Vulture now and as much as that’s perfect, it also sounds kinda like these sorta jokes.