Spider-Man 4 is starting to web together. The smell of money has made it impossible for Sony not to make a fourth Spidey entry, and it’s even starting to look like they may lure back most of the primaries from the first three movies.

By primaries, I of course mean Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire. IESB recently spoke with J.K. Simmons who plays J. Jonah Jameson in the first three movies, and the way he tells it, things are looking up for their involvement. Says Simmons, “I spoke to Tobey in, I guess it was February…sort of awards season time and, y’know, he’s certainly amenable to doing some more and hopefully we’ll be able to get everybody back and make another good one.”

I wonder if Tobey’s re-interest in the franchise has anything to do with Sony’s fervent commitment to get him back? Last week there was a rumor going around that Sony would replace him, and Sony’s reps were quick to squash it as completely false. While of course they didn’t say that Tobey was back, the fact that they’re worried about even the hint of someone else playing the part out there makes you think they’re working to get Tobey back, and don’t want anything getting in the way. We can only hope.

Meanwhile, Spidey director Sam Raimi also expressed his interest in Spider-Man 4 this week. He tells CS that he’s excited to read the script James Vanderbilt is working on and that he’s “hoping it's as great as our discussions were about it and I'm hoping it feels right for me because I love Spider-Man. I'm hoping I'm well rested enough to embrace it and I'm hoping Sony wants me to do it. If all of those things come together, I would love to do it.”

After all the rumor and speculation over whether Raimi and Maguire would return, it was starting to seem like but certain that at least one, if not both would not be a part of the fourth movie. Now though, things are definitely looking up. And before you start bitching about Spider-Man 3… come on, it really wasn’t that bad. This revisionist bullshit game everyone is playing where we all pretend we hated it when at the time it came out we didn’t is getting a little tiresome. I was there. You didn’t hate it. It wasn’t as good as the other two, but Spider-Man 3 was still better than most of the other superhero dreck we’ve been saddled with. This group still has some life in them. Bring on a fourth Raimi/Tobey Spider-Man!

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Spider-Man 3 was garbage, and I hated it the minute the movie was over. I'll still go see a 4th one, but my expectations wouldn't be as high as before.

quit while you still can... Worry about the other 1000 marvel hero's....