Raimi Talks Spider-Man 4

AICN had the chance to interview Sam Raimi during a release for his latest film, "Drag Me to Hell."

A couple of questions thrown at Raimi were about his next big project, "Spider-Man 4."

When asked about whether or not he’ll be filming "Spider-Man 4 and 5" back-to-back, Raimi said:

“No one’s talked to me about making part 5 at this moment. Right now I’m hoping to make part 4.”

On talking about the progress of the fourth film, Raimi replied:

“Well, it’s a never-ending process. Basically we are talking about the story right now, shortly artists will come on and I’ll start giving them shots to draw. We are supposed to start talking to a production designer soon, so it will just keep getting larger and larger.”

The question was brought up of whether or not it was easier to go back to working on a franchise when he already know so much about it, or whether it was like starting from scratch:

“Some of it is like going back to square one. For instance in the beginning Jim Achenson, our costume designer had to design the Spider-Man suit completely from scratch, but in the second one, we went to probably 25 redesign elements of the Spider-Man suit…”

“In the third picture, we felt that the technology had changed enough that it was time to skin Spider-Man and start him over again, so we actually had to start from the ground up again, but it wasn’t so much exterior skin design as much as it was the armature that drove him, so we are going to evaluate when the team comes together, I don’t have a visual effects supervisor yet, ‘what were we unsatisfied with? What aspects?’”

“…whenever the picture comes out we want to make sure we were shooting above the bar as it currently stands as far as visual effects go and we may or may not make that, but that will be my team’s goal when we start.”

We can only hope that it is better than "Spider-Man 3." Maybe less dancing, more into the creation of a good villain and more time spent in the hero suit (also less crying).
More news to come! Catch ya' later!