Spidey 4 and 5 are on, with Raimi and Tobey

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Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire are onboard for Spider-Mans (Spider-Men?) 4 & 5.

Too bad they raced through about 3 movies' worth of plot and villains for Spider-Man 3.

Here's an idea:

How about, for just one movie, Spider-Man takes on an original villain? How about a psycho killer? Or maybe terrorists?

It's not something we think about doing for superhero movies, of course, but in comic books there are often some of the best stories where the villain isn't just the same old costumed guy back again. Of course, with Batman you'd have to make about 30 movies before you ran out of fascinating bad guys, but Spider-Man has burned through just about all the big ones.

I can say this because as a DC-only fan I approach all of the Marvel movies with just as much ignorance as the general public. I realize the Spidey fans reading this are all hyperventilating about how I'm overlooking the obvious _______ but I have to tell you that to the general public the only "Name" Spidey villains are Green Goblin, Doc Ock and Venom. I know there's also some electric villain, and a guy with a big globe head (though one of my friends told me that's really a Daredevil baddie), and the 8-year-old son of one of my friends instantly recognized that the one-armed professor in the movies is actually The Lizard, who I'd never heard of before. (I'm not even going to consult Wikipedia on this, but let me guess: he tries to use lizard genes to grow back his arm and it turns him into a lizard. Am I right?)

So any Spidey-villains from here on out are unknown to the general public. How about doing what "Dark Knight" did and just focus on an excellent story that makes sense? (While you're scripting, I'd also leave out dance routines and 70s music.)

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Dude your friend is wrong.

and Spidey's got a lot more varied foes to some extent than even my other favorite.

That is to say you could take a lot of Batman foes that requires justification.

No one ever needed to justify a Ditko villain.

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