franchise - Sony is going forward without “Spider-Man” director Sam Raimi and star Tobey Maguire, which is no surprise. Raimi spent most of the past year apologizing for “Spider-Man 3,” which critics and fans alike had greeted with widespread disappointment. Raimi had promised “Spider-Man 4” would have a better script that would emphasize the characters and not try to shoehorn too many supervillains into the mix. Unfortunately, the script Sony had in hand didn’t meet Raimi’s expectations. The word from Deadline Hollywood’s Nikki Finke and Mike Fleming was that Raimi “hated it.”
So, he walked away for that most Hollywood of reasons — “creative differences” — and Sony is rebooting with a new director and a new cast.
