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Production on Spider-Man 4 postponed.

Sony has officially postponed production on the fourth installment in the Spider-Man franchise [SPID4] according to Variety.   Production had been scheduled to begin in February in order to meet its scheduled release date of May 6, 2011. Last month,  IESB was the first to report the turmoil behind Spider-Man 4, which was promptly denied by Sony.  Today, Nikki Finke corroborated the story that the original halt in pre-production was due to major problems with the script, and not a planned holiday hiatus.   The script has gone through screenwriters Jamie Vanderbilt, David Lindsay-Abaire, Gary Ross, and most recently Alvin Sargent, who scripted Spider-Man 2 & Spider-Man 3.   The story of Spider-Man 4 supposedly features John Malkovich [JMALK] as The Vulture, a villain the studio isn't particularly fond of.  In fact, the Vulture was written out of Spider-man 3 in favor of Venom.  We all know how that shoe-horned change one turned out. 



Tag(s): SPID4, JMALK

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By Antibody on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 @ 05:31 PM 4106 views

Recent Comments

bennyboy10
Wednesday, January 6 at 08:06 AM Pacific
Yes we all now how it turned out....the biggest opening weekend ever at the time
David8735024
Thursday, January 7 at 22:04 PM Pacific
Man they need to include Mysterio in SPID4 and I agree with the studio about the Vulture....Im pessimistic about that prospect. Im not big on the comics but Iver never even heard of the Vulture. Mysterio would be friggin' awesome; I mean just imagine f
Tamlaeyn
Monday, January 11 at 21:47 PM Pacific
SO many villians BETTER than the Vulture! excuse me? Mysterio! Kraven! Kingpin even! Scorpian would even be better. oy.
ASFN_Bob_2003
Friday, January 15 at 15:11 PM Pacific
I would love to see Malkovich play a villain, regardless of which one.



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