Sam Raimi Confirms He's Open To Doing Spider-Man 4 With Tobey Maguire
Sam Raimi is open to returning to directSpider-Man 4 with Tobey Maguire if the situation were to arise. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man was released in 2002 and was met with critical and box office acclaim breaking opening weekend records. He followed it with two sequels, the highly praised Spider-Man 2 in 2004 and Spider-Man 3 in 2007 which received mixed reactions from audiences. Raimi was originally set to direct Spider-Man 4 with Tobey Maguire which was due out in theaters on May 6, 2011.
However conflicts with the studio led Raimi to drop out of the project and Sony rebooted the franchise with The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012, which itself would be rebooted after the disappointing reaction of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 leading to the character entering the MCU. While it was an abrupt ending for both Sam Raimi as a director of the franchise and Tobey Maguire's tenure as Peter Parker, in 2021 Maguire returned as his version of The Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Raimi himself joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the director for the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and with both key players back many have been hoping that Sony would greenlight a potential Spider-Man 4, allowing for the story of the first big-screen Spider-Man to continue.
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Raimi appears to be open to the idea of directing Spider-Man 4 himself. In a recent appearance on Moviepilot, Raimi was asked if he would want to revisit his Spider-Man franchise, similar to how the director did with Ash vs. The Evil Dead. While the director might have thought that chapter was closed, it appears working on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and his
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