Will Maguire & Raimi's Spider-Man 4 Ever Actually Happen?
The anticipation for Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 has grown substantially since Spider-Man: No Way Home, but the chances of the sequel actually coming to fruition are more complex. After a substantial 14-year hiatus from putting on the Spidey suit, the first major Spider-Man actor, Tobey Maguire, returned as a 40-year-old Peter Parker in the MCU’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. Reprising his role from Raimi’s Spider-Man universe, Maguire’s more experienced and mature Peter Parker traveled to the MCU for a Spider-Man team-up with Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland’s Spideys as they battled the villains from his first two movie outings.
Maguire’s No Way Home return as Spider-Man was a long-awaited feat for fans of the superhero’s first major movie outing, with Sam Raimi’s trilogy still being held in high regard among the subsequent iterations of Peter Parker. The last time Maguire put on the Spidey suit was in 2007’sSpider-Man 3, which is now considered the weakest installment of the trilogy. While critics and audiences deemed Spider-Man 3 a narrative disappointment after the widespread acclaim of its predecessors, the movie was still a massive success for Sony, with the sequel becoming the highest-grossing installment in the trilogy with $894.9 million in box office earnings worldwide.
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Despite the mixed reviews of Spider-Man 3, Sam Raimi’s trilogy still proved itself worthy of a future, with the demand for Spider-Man 4 being even higher as a way to amend the story of Maguire’s hero. Eager to continue the franchise, Spider-Man 4 entered its developmental stages in 2007 with Raimi and Maguire set to return, including a fifth
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