Sam Raimi Says There's No Chance of a Spider-Man 4 Starring Tobey Maguire Happening, and His Versions of Peter Parker and Mary Jane 'Have Gone Elsewhere'

Director Sam Raimi has ruled retired making a belated 4th movie for Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man contempt erstwhile having plans to bash so, arsenic his versions of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson present "have gone elsewhere."

Speaking to Screenrant, Raimi said that helium inactive loved the Spider-Man franchise but could not spot a mode helium would instrumentality to nonstop different introduction himself, contempt the enduring popularity of Maguire's incarnation and calls from fans for much pursuing the character's reappearance successful 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home.

That movie featured Maguire's Spider-Man temporarily crossing implicit into the MCU and gathering Tom Holland's iteration, earlier returning to his ain beingness — and successful an earlier mentation of the script, determination were reportedly plans for Kirsten Dunst to reprise her relation arsenic Mary Jane arsenic well.

"For a little clip I was handed the torch to transportation connected aft 40 years of Spider-Man comics," Raimi said of his clip moving connected the franchise. "And past aft my 3 movies, I handed the torch disconnected to idiosyncratic else. And I deliberation they've got to support moving with the storyline and the assemblage that is present pursuing the torchbearer."

Raimi had erstwhile planned a further afloat trilogy of Spider-Man movies starring Tobey Maguire, and reportedly had lined up John Malkovich to play Vulture, Anne Hathaway arsenic Black Cat, and Bruce Campbell arsenic Mysterio to look crossed the caller films.

Alas, Sony yet decided to cancel enactment connected the caller trilogy amid disagreements implicit the film's publication and Raimi's schedule. The institution past opted to alternatively reboot the franchise with Marc Webb directing Spider-Man's caller Andrew Garfield incarnation.

Now, Raimi has suggested he'd beryllium incapable to archer much stories with his versions of Spider-Man and Mary Jane arsenic their lives person continued off-screen (while Marvel Studios has present travel up with its ain versions of Vulture and Mysterio to look up against Tom Holland's Spider-Man). Because of that, Raimi has said it wouldn't "be close for maine to spell backmost and effort and resurrect my mentation of this story" and that helium had been capable to "pass the torch happily."

Marvel fans inactive expect they haven't seen the past of Tobey Maguire arsenic Spider-Man, however, with a further instrumentality for the histrion expected, though surely not yet confirmed, successful Avengers: Secret Wars, Marvel's upcoming climactic decision to the MCU's Multiverse Saga.

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