“We had other things in mind, too, but that was one of them.”
“That was one of the possibilities,” Raimi said of Mysterio, who was eventually played by Jake Gyllenhaal in the Tom Holland Spider-Man films. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Raimi revealed he wanted to include other villains too, including Mysterio for his frequent collaborator, Bruce Campbell. And I didn’t think I could get that script to the level that I was hoping for by that start date.”Īt the time, Anne Hathaway was in talks to play Black Cat, while John Malkovich would have starred as Spider-Man villain Vulture. I didn’t want to just make another one that pretty much worked. ‘ Spider-Man 4’ - that was really what that was about. “I wanted to make a Spider-Man movie to redeem myself for that. “It was a very painful experience for me,” Raimi said of the response to “Spider-Man 3,” a nadir of the Maguire franchise and the final Spider-Man film from the director and his star.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Raimi discussed what might have happened if the fourth film with Maguire had come to fruition – and why he was disappointed the project never materialized. With “ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” set to arrive in theaters, director Sam Raimi is looking back on his last foray into the Marvel universe, as director of the initial “Spider-Man” trilogy with Tobey Maguire as the friendly neighborhood web-slinger.
0 kommentar(er)
