Director Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy is the stuff of Hollywood historical past, however it’s not full: Raimi’s fourth Spider-Man film by no means received made. Although planning was properly underway for a fourth film starring Tobey Maguire because the web-slinger, the studio behind the films ended up altering course and as a substitute made a brand new collection of Spidey movies with Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker.
That was a bummer for followers of Raimi’s tackle the long-lasting superhero, and it was particularly a bummer for Dylan Baker, an actor who had a minor function as Dr. Curt Connors within the second and third movies that was purported to repay big-time when his character remodeled into the supervillain The Lizard within the fourth movie. Alas, that didn’t occur, and as Baker just lately revealed in an interview with ComicBook, he was upset that he wouldn’t get to have his villainous flip.
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“I have to say, when Sam Raimi called me up and said that he was not going to be carried on to direct Spider-Man 4 [I was disappointed],” Baker explained. “He started to tell me about the script he had written and was ready to do and ready to shoot, but it was not going to be able to be done at the time they wanted it to be done.”
Spider-Man 4 had originally been planned for a 2011 release, four years after Spider-Man 3 swung into theaters. However there were difficulties with the scripts, none of which were to Raimi’s liking, and eventually he walked from the project when he said he wouldn’t be able to hit the targeted release date. In early January of 2011, Sony Pictures decided to scrap the whole thing and instead start a new franchise, casting Garfield as Spider-Man and Rhys Ifans as Kurt Connors/The Lizard.
“It was just letting the Lizard come out and see the world and it just killed me. I would have loved to have done that,” Baker mentioned of the entire episode. “Luckily, Rhys Ifans was unbelievable and I received to go, ‘Very properly finished,’ whereas wishing I might have finished it.”
In a recent interview, Raimi just lately shot down rumors that he was getting round to creating Spider-Man 4 in spite of everything, greater than a decade after the unique plans fell by.
Although Baker by no means received an opportunity to get all scaly, you’ll be able to nonetheless see him in human type in Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3, now streaming on Peacock together with the 2002 unique.
