In a recent interview Raimi said that the villains will not be announced until the script is completed..
“Right now, David Lindsay-Abaire is working on a draft of the new picture,” Raimi told SCI FI Wire. “And he’s hard at work, and hopefully we’ll see something in about three months.”
So the good news is that script writing is underway..bad news is it will be about 3 months before we know who or what will be getting Peters Spidey sense a tingling.
“I’m not at liberty to discuss the villains yet,” said Raimi. “I think I have to wait ’til the finished screenplay, and then it’d be up to Sony Pictures and the producers to determine when they want to release that information. To them, it’s usually a big, a big, big thing, a big moment where they want to present the villain with the proper respect or fear that he or she deserves.”
The "or she" there may well refer to The Black Cat, a very popular Spiderman villain/sometime ally. Im hoping she does indeed make an appearance..but that theres also a much more vicious villain to take a chunk out of Spidey!
One things for sure, we will certainly know one way or the other before too long because the release date for the movie is set in stone..
“We have to make the release date, and on all of these pictures, the ‘Spider-Man’ films — and I’m sure it’s the same as with many of the other bigger-budgeted films — they have release dates far in advance of a screenplay,” said Raimi. “So it’s about getting it ready the best you can in time for the first day of production. That’s what we’ve always done, and that’s what we’ll try to do again.”
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