Spider-Man fans are keeping hope alive for a fourth Sam Raimi entry after the director recently teased its future.
Raimi’s Spidey trilogy ran for five years with the last entry —Spider-Man 3— receiving mixed reviews from critics despite being the highest-grossing movie in the trilogy.
The director has hinted at his want to make afourth Spider-Man filmwith his leading man Tobey Maguire, but fans keep their hopes of seeing his new vision for the franchise pretty low until now.
Whilespeakingwith CBR, Raimi gave fans some renewed hope for a future Spider-Man 4 stating, “I did read [Spider-Man 4 directing rumors], but I’m not actually working on it yet. I mean, Marvel and Columbia are so successful with current Spider-Man [movies], and the track there, and I don’t know that they’re going to go back to me, and say, ‘Well, folks, we can also tell that story!’ I’m not sure, but I love all the new Spider-Man movies.”
Naturally, Raimi fans instantly caught on to the fact that the director said he wasn’t working on it “yet,” which gave some renewed hope that Raimi could be tapped for a fourth Spider-Man movie in the future.
“The keyword is ‘yet.’ My hope is hanging on ‘yet.’ Lol,” one fantweeted, while another also got hyped by the director’s choice of wordswriting, “I like how he keeps saying ‘I’m not working on that YET’ WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT SAM??”
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One Spider-Man fan made an observation from the interviewtweeting, “DUDE HE WANTS MAKE SPIDER-MAN 4. YOU CAN JUST TELL!”
Another fan actuallyquotedRaimi himself from when the fan asked him if Spider-Man 4 could ever happenstating, “I really believe that this could work out in the future, but as he said to me: ‘If it’s going to happen, it will happen at the right time.'”
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Kayla Harrington was a TV & Movies Writer on Dexerto’s US team, specializing in The Boys, The Walking Dead, House of the Dragon, Marvel and Star Wars. She also has bylines at Mashable, BuzzFeed, and The Mary Sue.
