“I didn’t get a no…”

While fans were mixed on Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3even decades later, Spiderman And Spider-Man 2 ranks among the greatest comic book films ever made. The trio was also a box office success, so the filmmaker’s return for Spider-Man 4 made sense on many levels.

The film was supposed to be released in 2011, but was ultimately scrapped, preferring The Amazing Spider-Mana reboot starring Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker. Few details were shared on Spider-Man 4 over the years, although we know the plan was for Spidey to fight Vulture and Black Cat.

While Spider-Man 3 seemed like the end of Tobey Maguire’s time as a web-slinger, the actor returned to his most iconic role in 2021. Spider-Man: No Way Home. Since then, fans have expressed their desire to see the two Spider-Man 4 And The Amazing Spider-Man 3 become a reality.

There’s really no reason for Sony Pictures not to make these films, even if Tom Holland still stars as Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Yet four years later, neither film seems too likely.

The Batman And The Batman 2 writer Mattson Tomlin has previously expressed interest in writing Spider-Man 4 for Raimi. Taking to social media earlier this year, he wrote: “Honestly, right now my main interest in this would be writing a Spider-Man 4 where Tobey’s Spider-Man juggles being a husband and father. Spider-Man as a father is where I’m gravitating towards, given the last 8 films.”

Since then, he has continued to express his interest in the project and the possibility of Spider-Man 4 became at least a little more real (when trades started reporting on his remarks, you know it got the studio’s attention).

Asked by a fan for an update earlier today, Tomlin wrote: “Slow and steady, we’re winning the race. There won’t be anything to say about this for a long time (if ever!) because it involves a lot of people and politics and things that are fine and have nothing to do with me, but I haven’t gotten a ‘no’ yet!”

We’ll see what happens, but with the multiverse in play, the most likely next destination for Maguire’s Spider-Man will be Avengers: Apocalypse And Avengers: Secret Wars. Whether these films can serve as a launching pad for the story Tomlin wants to tell remains to be seen.

Asked in 2022 about a possible return for Spider-Man 4Raimi, who directed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for Marvel Studios, said: “Well, I haven’t heard about it yet. I’ve read it, but I’m not working on it yet. I mean, Marvel and Columbia are having so much success with the current Spider-Man. [movies]and the trail there, and I don’t know if they’re going to come back to me and say, ‘Well, folks, we can tell this story too!'”

He added, “I’m not sure, but I love all the new Spider-Man movies. I loved Spider-Man: No Way Home. It was really super powerful to see Tobey [Maguire] in again.

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