It looks like we’re going to get another big screen adaptation of The Shadow in our lifetime thanks to the people over at 20th Century Fox. According to Latino Review, the studio has picked up the rights to Sam Raimi’s version of the vintage character that Sony was previously rumored to produce, but after the Spider-Man debacle are we really surprised they didn’t follow through?
Besides Tobey Maguire, Sam Raimi has been the face of the Spider-Man franchise for the past eight years and yesterday his relationship with it came to an end. Sony Pictures announced that they were no longer interested in pursuing Spider-Man 4 or Raimi’s take on the webslinging character. They have decided to reboot the franchise and start with a younger, more contemporary Peter Parker.
Even though it sounds like Raimi was fired from the movie, he actually left before the official announcement was made. He didn’t feel that he could make the 2011 release date the studio set, due to the creative issues that continued to pop up. In the end he quit, and Sony decided to start from scratch without him. Should he have stuck it out until he got fired? Do you think it’s right for them to can the whole project?
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Are we surprised that the latest Spider-Man movie has been pushed back an entire year? Are we shocked that it will no longer be Spider-Man 4, but some reboot that includes new actors and a new premise? If this announcement throws you for a loop, you haven’t been following the play by play of drama that has surrounded the film since its inception. According to Comingsoon, Sony has decided to start from scratch with the Spider-Man franchise, which means no Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, or Sam Raimi.
Sam Raimi promises to get back to the basics in the upcoming sequel, Spider-Man 4. According to the Coventrytelegraph, Raimi opened up about the many critical complaints made about the multiple villains in Spider-Man 3 saying they distracted from the experience. So to redeem himself from villain overload, for the next film he plans on taking a different approach.
So many developments have been made regarding Spider-Man 4 and the pending Venom sequel, and director Sam Raimi is opening up about his involvement with the next two films in the series. As previously announced, Sony plans on producing a new trilogy of Spidey films and MTV recently spoke to Raimi about whether or not he’ll return to direct the movies in question.
There’s been a serious development on the World of Warcraft movie front. Director Sam Raimi recently told MTV, that the studio has found a writer in Saving Private Ryan scribe, Robert Rodat. A week ago there was some confusion about whether or not the film would be based on the actual game or the novel, “Arthas: Rise of the Lich King,” but Raimi has clarified that WOW will be an adaptation of the video game through and through.
Sam Raimi was pinned down by MTV and revealed that Spider-Man 4 will finally start shooting in early March of 2010. The fourth film in the franchise won’t hit theaters until 2011, but after so much talk of unsuccessful scribes and screenplays, many of you might have gotten a bit worried, but according to Raimi Gary Ross is working on a screenplay right now (as you read this).
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Lionsgate and Sam Raimi‘s Ghost House Pictures have teamed up to release a new horror film, Burst 3D. In addition, Neil Marshall, writer and director of The Decent, has been chosen to direct the film. The movie is about a group of travelers who are stranded together during a blizzard, but an evil force is lurking and causing people to randomly explode. Doesn’t that sound delightful?
If you thought Drag Me to Hell was a great horror film, get a load of this — Variety is reporting that Sam Raimi, the same guy who brought you the Evil Dead franchise, will spin a new horror banner out of the pre-existing Ghost House label entitled, Spooky Pictures.
