SPIDER-MAN 4: A Significant Update About The Movie's Status Has Been Revealed Following Recent Rumors

SPIDER-MAN 4: A Significant Update About The Movie's Status Has Been Revealed Following Recent Rumors

As rumors continue to swirl about Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures' supposed plans for Spider-Man 4, the trades have weighed in with an update which puts recent rumblings into better context. Check it out!

By JoshWilding - Mar 29, 2024 12:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Spider-Man

There's a huge amount of excitement surrounding Spider-Man 4, and that may go some way in explaining why so many rumours continue to swirl about Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures' plans for the project. 

We haven't seen the live-action wall-crawler on our screens since 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home and Tom Holland's break from the character hasn't exactly been a rousing success (Uncharted appears to have been a one-and-done and The Crowded Room drew mixed reviews). 

Since then, he's supposedly signed up to star in both a fourth solo outing and as a lead in the next Avengers movies. All the while, we've been hearing rumblings about clashes between Marvel and Sony, various directors who could be in the mix, and two very different versions of Peter Parker's return: one with his fellow Spider-Men, and one without. 

Now, we finally have a slightly more reliable update courtesy of Variety. The trade has run an in-depth piece about Euphoria's future and where things really stand with Spider-Man 4

"Some believe that the success or lack thereof of Zendaya’s upcoming film 'Challengers,' which opens April 26, could influence 'Euphoria's' fate," reads the report, "and looming in the background, of course, is the upcoming 'Spider-Man 4,' though the script for that film is still being worked on, and there’s no director or start date."

So, despite what we've been hearing in recent weeks, a director hasn't boarded Spider-Man 4 and reports production will begin later this year to get the movie in theaters in 2025 appear to have been premature. 

It's unclear why Jon Watts isn't returning after helping the MCU's Spider-Man trilogy, though he walked away from The Fantastic Four reboot after seemingly being burned out from devoting over half a decade of his career to the web-slinger. 

Drew Goddard and Justin Lin are the names supposedly in the mix for this next instalment, but with a script still being worked on, this movie clearly isn't as close to becoming a reality as we'd hoped. A narrative that Spider-Man 4 is troubled has been created, but primarily by scoopers; this report instead suggests that it's a movie which is simply being worked on (as you'd expect).

"All I can say is that we have been actively engaging in conversations about what it could potentially look like for a fourth rendition of my character," Holland said last November. "Whether or not we can find a way to do justice to the character is another thing."

"I feel very protective over Spider-Man," the actor continued. "I feel very, very lucky that we were able to work on a franchise that got better with each movie, that got more successful with each movie, which I think is really rare, and I want to protect his legacy. So, I won’t make another one for the sake of making another one. It will have to be worth the while of the character."

Stay tuned for updates as we have them. 

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Dafoe
Dafoe - 3/29/2024, 12:59 PM
Very Slow News day ain't it?

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Nomis929
Nomis929 - 3/29/2024, 1:14 PM
@Dafoe - LOL!!! That gif was the perfect response!
dragon316
dragon316 - 3/29/2024, 2:02 PM
@Dafoe - I don’t remember that scene from movie has be deleted scene need rewatch it again
Dafoe
Dafoe - 3/29/2024, 3:06 PM
@dragon316 - Not a deleted scene, just poor memory bud

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MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 3/29/2024, 12:59 PM
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mountainman
mountainman - 3/29/2024, 1:02 PM
Saw the trailer for that movie in front of Dune 2. It is not a movie that looks appealing to me at all, but at least Zendaya didn’t have her typical stink face showing the whole trailer. She may actually has some acting range it seems!
McMurdo
McMurdo - 3/29/2024, 1:40 PM
@mountainman - the director Luca Guadagnino, his last film Bones and All was brilliant in my opinion. Suspiria and Call Me By Your Name are also good. But Zendaya just isn't a great actor and I don't think she can carry a film but I hope I'm proven wrong. I don't buy her as a tennis guru she just feels like she's acting in that trailer. I like her as Rue in Euphoria oddly enough though. Season 1 especially.
mountainman
mountainman - 3/29/2024, 2:07 PM
@McMurdo - I’ve heard praise for her in Euphoria, it just doesn’t seem appealing to me so I won’t get to have an opinion on her performance.
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 3/29/2024, 2:45 PM
@mountainman - shes incredibly overrated, not that talented and just stale as f*ck... and, imo, she isnt even attractive
RolandD
RolandD - 3/29/2024, 2:51 PM
@McMurdo - “She just feels like she’s acting in that trailer. I. . . . just . . . . don’t. . . . what. . . . to . . . . say.
mountainman
mountainman - 3/29/2024, 2:52 PM
@MotherGooseUPus - I’ve only seen her in the Spiderman movies and Dune. Not impressed by her performance in either. Maybe she’s better in other stuff.

As far as attractiveness, not my type but I could see how others may think so.

I just wish she didn’t have that upset look on her face all the time. Especially as MJ. She’s just fine as Chani IMO, but was a very bad casting for “Mary Jane”
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 3/29/2024, 5:10 PM
@mountainman - thats also the only things ive seen her in.... and yes i should of clarified; i personally dont think shes that attractive but i know others do, and thats fine.

but yea, shes stale and always has a "murppy" or frown or just disgust look on her face and it's annoying. shes the opposite of what i think MJ should be like
WakandaTech
WakandaTech - 3/29/2024, 1:03 PM
Spiderman 4 will come out in 2026


2026
Blade
Spiderman 4
Nova
Timerider
Timerider - 3/29/2024, 2:48 PM
@WakandaTech - yes, Spider-man 4 in 2026 with a mid credit scene of him meeting the human torch and possibly Bobby Drake
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 3/29/2024, 1:03 PM
DD, Black Cat, Kingpin, Hammerhead, Tombstone, Puma.

Save Ned & MJ for mid end credit scenes.

MJ meets Eddie's variant and begins modeling.

Ned meets Martin and begins (unknowingly) working for the underworld.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/29/2024, 1:05 PM
So scoopers continue to just throw shit out to get clicks but in actuality , the movie is still just being written?.

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Anyway , I do hope we don’t see Zendaya’s MJ for another movie or 2 if they are doing another trilogy…

I like her version but the emotional impact of Peter’s decision at the end of NWH will have more resonance imo if it stuck for a bit.

You could have him meet other characters and possibly a new love interest during which as he just starts to get in the groove of his new life , MJ ( and Ned perhaps) come crashing as this disruptive force that drags the past back into his present.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/29/2024, 1:46 PM
@TheVisionary25 - yeah, it's easy to come up with rumours for Spider-Man. Here's one: Spider-Man 4 will be released in 2026, without Jon Watts attached to direct
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/29/2024, 1:49 PM
@bkmeijer1 - exactly…

I hear the villain will be Big Wheel 😊.

Anyway , Josh wonders why Jon Watts is coming back to direct and then immediately answers his own question by saying he left FF because he was burnt out 😑.

I liked Watts take but I would rather we get new blood for this new chapter if Peter’s life and he can focus on his SW show and movies he’s working on.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/29/2024, 4:04 PM
@TheVisionary25 - yeah. Watts style worked, especially for the first. For the new trilogy I really hope they get Drew Goddard, or maybe even Shawn Levy.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/29/2024, 4:11 PM
@bkmeijer1 - Godard’s my pick
JFerguson
JFerguson - 3/29/2024, 1:07 PM
So those bobbleheaded scoopers aren’t trustworthy after all? Oh boy who knew?

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marvel72
marvel72 - 3/29/2024, 1:11 PM
I believe Sony will want this out sooner rather than later. Madame Web is proof of that, we don't know how well Kraven The Hunter will do. As for Venom that could do well on the box office strength of the previous two movies.
grif
grif - 3/29/2024, 1:35 PM


[frick] challengers


Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 3/29/2024, 2:09 PM
@grif - not sure who the intended audience is for that one but it looks horrible.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 3/29/2024, 1:36 PM
I hope they do a hard reboot after secret wars and start back in the 60's, you need to tell the entire mutant story from the beginning. Having mutants "pop up" after the blip will seriously [frick] it all up from the start. So I hope the early setting for F4 confirms this. Start over, with everyone from the beginning. Make it the true comic timeline or whatever. Please!
Imprtracr1
Imprtracr1 - 3/29/2024, 1:39 PM
"after seemingly being burned out from devoting over half a decade of his career to the web-slinger."

Oh, so 5 maybe 6 years of a job...

Try working decades at the same place like normal folk do.

Hollyweird is not going to garner much sympathy.
JobinJ
JobinJ - 3/29/2024, 3:54 PM
@Imprtracr1 - Josh just makes things up, he has no idea if he’s burnt out
CharlesLeeRay
CharlesLeeRay - 3/29/2024, 1:45 PM
They have the perfect oportunity to start a new trilogy with an opposite tone as the previous one, as the last movie's endig suggested;, Will they have the balls to do it? Doubt it.
TheLobster
TheLobster - 3/29/2024, 1:52 PM
Drew Goddard or bust. If they get someone as generic and safe as Justin Lin - it’ll immediately bring most my hype down. TheFast and Furious films are true garbage.
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 3/29/2024, 2:10 PM
@TheLobster - the lobster speaks the truth!
TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 3/29/2024, 2:19 PM
"There's a huge amount of excitement surrounding (x,y,z)..."

Oh, an obvious Josh article.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 3/29/2024, 2:22 PM
Wish franchises had a blueprint of where the story will go before any film is made, that way we dont have a bunch of activists sitting around drinking soy tea discussing what would be really “hot” in hollywood right now
Huskers
Huskers - 3/29/2024, 7:16 PM
What a pain in the ass it is having to deal with Sony every time you make a Spiderman movie.
cadunovaes01
cadunovaes01 - 3/29/2024, 9:55 PM
My ideal Spider—Man 4 movie (a couple of ideas, Just a dream guys)
- Kravens Last Hunt
- Sin Eater saga ( and birth of Venom)
- Battle of gangs (Rose, Hobgoblin, Daredevil, Hammerhead)

About Multiverse, I think the only good idea is Spiderverse (live action), but the animation is doing fine, they probably will not go this Way
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