It seems that Sam Raimi still has a fondness for the web-slinger, despite his departure from the franchise after 2007’s Spider-Man 3. While doing press for his new show Ash Vs. Evil Dead, Raimi has been speaking to MTV about the latest news on Spidey’s cinematic future, as well as his thoughts on Marc Webb’s two films, 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel, which was released last summer.
“I saw [both Amazing Spider-Man movies], they’re great. And I’m really glad that Marvel’s taking it to high school. I think that’s going to be refreshing, and just like my favourite of the Spider-Man comic-books. I have a lot of faith that they really know their stuff. “The difficulty of going through high school is so unique to a superhero. It’s unique and that’s what Spider-Man’s all about, so that they’re going to explore that head on is very exciting”.
Raimi was of course the director of the first three Spider-Man adventures in 2002, 2004 and 2007 respectively, and was keen on making a fourth film with Tobey Maguire as well as the rumoured involvement of John Malkovich and Anne Hathaway, before Sony decided to reboot the franchise with Andrew Garfield as the titular hero and Marc Webb directing. Now, after last summer’s debacle of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Sony has teamed up with Marvel to restart the franchise again, but this time integrating Spidey into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Spider-Man, played by Tom Holland (The Impossible), will first appear for Marvel in next summer’s Captain America: Civil War, before he gets his own new film in 2017. Jon Watts (Cop Car) directs the solo reboot, which is set to be written by John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein (Horrible Bosses), with Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler) co-starring as Aunt May.
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Originally published July 20, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
