As we reported last Friday, MTV talked to Sam Raimi about the upcoming Spider-Man 4, which is hopefully going to begin shooting in March 2010. MTV promised that Raimi had more to say and they would release that in the days to come. True to their word, they have released more of their conversation with the Director, this time with regards to the villain for the fourth film. While he (obviously) didn’t reveal for sure who it would be, he did say this:
“I love the Lizard,” said Raimi. “There’s a great story there in the Marvel comic books about Dr. Connors. I’m less familiar with Carnage.”
And of course, what I think is the usual spill for Raimi when it comes to choosing the Spidey villain:
“What we’re trying to do right now is really understand the journey Peter is going to go on this time and have the villain maybe be a counter to that growth, something that he has to overcome,” Raimi said. “Or maybe he has to grow in a way to overcome the villain, because there always seem to be stories of coming of age, of a young man growing up and learning things about life, so once we are identifying the exact movement that Peter has to grow to, I think the villain-and we’re trying this right now; we’re trying to choose a villain based on who would be the proper counter to that growth, so we really have dramatic conflict.”
Kind of seems like the same song Raimi sang when it came to making the previous two sequels. Carefully choosing a villain that helps Peter progress as a character and grow as a hero (and yet we still ended up with Venom in the third film?). While this is great and all, I would really like to see Peter be the hero finally. It’s been three films now and it still seems like he is learning and not accepting this whole hero thing. I know he’s still got a long way to go, but I would like to see Spidey have more confidence in this next film and be a little more of a wise-cracking kick-ass superhero. It’s time to let Peter start figuring it out.