Spider-Man 4 News

Those are the new rumors floating around the internet this week. Believe what you will, but we could possibly be seeing John Malkovich and Anne Hathaway in the latest installment in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man series. At this point though everything is just hearsay and rumors so I wouldn’t get your hopes up, but what would you think if these rumors were true?

That’s right, before we even have a full cast completely locked down for part 4, which is set for release on May 6, 2011, we have a writer for both Spider-Man 5 and 6. James Vanderbilt has been tapped to pen both scripts. Vanderbilt was also the guy that wrote the initial draft of the script for Spider-Man 4, but it was then re-written and edited a couple times by different writers. And unlike the previous Spider-Man movies it sounds like parts 5 and 6 will have interconnected storylines which may be kind of cool.

Yesterday, along with moving back Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, Marvel announced a release date for the highly anticipated Spider-Man 4 movie. Spidey and pals will swing into action again on May 6th, 2011. So keep that date open and bookmark this page for all the upcoming news regarding Spider-Man 4.

And in the meantime don’t forget to check out Avengers News to get all the latest news on Thor, Captain America, The Avengers and of course Iron Man 2!

Spider-Man 4 is now on it’s second writer. The first writer James Vanderbuilt, who wrote Zodiac, didn’t impress the studios with his take on what Spider-Man 4 should entail so Sony has hired David Lindsay-Abaire. Lindsay-Abaire is a pulitzer prize winner for his play “Rabbit Hole”. Not really sure how this is going to play out, he doesn’t seem to have much experience in the comic book genre, but he is obviously a good writer so hopefully we’ll get something interesting out of him.

Nothing is official yet, but apparently in an interview that Kirsten Dunst did with MTV she mentions that she’s “in” when asked about her involvement with Spider-Man 4. However, shortly after that she said that she’s not saying anything…. So basically nothing is official yet, but it sounds like she wants to do it if everything works out how she wants it to. This could mean that she’d be back for both Spider-Man 4 and 5 since they are going to be shot back to back, unless of course they kill Mary Jane off in Spidey 4, but we’ll just have to wait and see. If we hear anything official we will let you know.

source: MTV (via Cinematical)