J.K. Simmons Comments On Spider-Man 3 Problems And Reason For Cancelled Fourth Movie!

It was ridiculously fun, again because a significant portion of what you see on the screen, even though the script was there and was good, we just screwed around and came up with gags and ideas. Liz Banks, who’s now a big stinky movie star, and Ted Raimi, Sam’s brother, and that Tobey Maguire kid, everyone who was involved in all those office scenes, it was like a little improv comedy troupe with Sam pulling the strings.

It was always fun, even in Spider-Man 3, when Sam was being micromanaged by the studio and it was kind of stressful, even that one was kind of fun.

A year ago, we went to Sam’s birthday party and we were talking about “Here’s some ideas for what JJJ is going to have in Spider-Man 4, and it’s going to be great fun, and blah blah blah,” and then a month later, boom, the rug got pulled. There are a million different versions why it got pulled. I think a significant factor was that the studio said, “Look, we have a release date in mind, and we’re announcing, and therefore the tail has to wag the dog now, and you have to start this movie now.” And they didn’t have the cast signed up, and they didn’t have a script that Sam felt like was anywhere ready to shoot, and eventually everything just fell apart, and [the studio] said “Screw it. We’ll start from scratch with a new director and a new cast.” That was a bummer for a number of reasons.