In an exclusive conversaion with Spider-Man franchise director, Sam Raimi, MTV was told that he hopes to start filming the fourth installment in the first week of March, 2010:
“We’re hoping that it’s the first week in March,” said Raimi.
At the moment, pre-production is in full swing, even as screenwriter Gary Ross (“great director and a very fine writer,” said Raimi) continues to work on the script.
“He’s working on a draft,” he continued. “I just gave him some notes and he’s doing a rewrite right now.”
On other fronts, “Spider-Man 4” continues to chug along. “The production is starting to come together,” Raimi told us. “I’ve got a production designer who is starting to design the sets and the environments that the picture will take place in. We just brought aboard Scott Stokdyk as one of the two visual effects supervisors, and I worked with him on all three ‘Spider-man’ pictures.”
So far, the only major people to sign back on for a fourth movie are Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire, so Raimi is still charged with the task of filling the rest of the rolls for the movie.
According to MTV, there was more revealed regarding the direction of Spider-Man 4 including conversations about the direction of the character, which villains might make the cut, and more. While I doubt there will be any major reveals with any of this, we will keep our eyes peeled for any more news coming from MTV’s “exclusive conversation” with the man behind Spider-Man!