Sam Raimi Reveals The Real Reason Why Spider-Man 4 With Tobey Maguire Never Happened

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnessdirector Sam Raimi discussed the reasons for why his fourth Spider-Man film never saw the light of day. The highly-divisive Spider-Man 3 was released during the early era of superhero cinema.

Spider-Man is a popular web-slinging hero who many comic fans and casual viewers have come to love. Once a fictional hero, Spider-Man is now an icon for many. Both old and young appreciate the stories that come from the fictional version of NYC. The original Spider-Man trilogy was fans' first time seeing the wall-crawler be brought to life, and still to this day many wish that the series ended on its own terms.

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While promoting Doctor Strange 2, Raimi was talking to MoviePilot and shared some his thoughts on whySpider-Man 4 never happened. «We had a script years ago and we were actively working in pre-production...It became a thing where there was a deadline and I didn't want to make something that was less than great,» he said. The director went on to address the studio intervention that plagued Spider-Man 3, and how he didn't want to repeat that experience. «I thought I had compromised a bit on Spider-Man 3 and I wanted to really pay the audience back on Spider-Man 4 and make the best Spider-Man of all… And I couldn't get the script together in that amount of time. So I told Sony, 'I think it's best if you go ahead with your planned alternate Spider-Man storyline, because I don't want to let the audience down.'»

The compromise Raimi referred to was reportedly being forced to use Venom by producer Avi Arad. This unfortunately wasn't the best outcome for the series. Of course, now that the multiverse is canon in the Marvel films, many