{"id":263069,"date":"2026-02-01T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263069\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:26:07","slug":"sam-raimi-teases-possible-spider-man-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263069\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Raimi Teases Possible &#8216;Spider-Man 4&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNearly 20 years later, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sam-raimi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sam-raimi\" data-tag=\"sam-raimi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Raimi<\/a> is open to taking another swing at <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/spider-man\/\" id=\"auto-tag_spider-man\" data-tag=\"spider-man\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spider-Man<\/a> with a fourth installment of his <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/marvel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marvel\" data-tag=\"marvel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marvel<\/a> movies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing Tobey Maguire\u2019s return as Peter Parker in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Raimi said the audience \u201cloved him,\u201d as well as returning villains Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) and Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cSo, I think the kids would like to see him,\u201d he told the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/APEntertainment\/status\/2017017303355863419?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cRight now, Marvel is very successful on their own tangent with their own Spider-Man, where he is involved with The Avengers and the other superheroes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/send-help-review-rachel-mcadams-dylan-obrien-sam-raimi-1236696378\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Send-Help.webp.png\" alt=\"Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien in a scene from the Sam Raimi movie Send Help\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/04\/sam-raimi-rumors-spider-man-4-film-tobey-maguire-1235873349\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/spider-man-sam-raimi.jpg\" alt=\"'Spider-Man' (2002)\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRaimi continued, \u201cSo, I don\u2019t think it makes sense right now to break up that great, successful run they\u2019re having, just to allow me to make another Spider-Man movie. But I\u2019d love to. The day might come, and I\u2019d love to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter Raimi directed him in Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007), Maguire reprised his role as the titular web-slinger in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRaimi last returned to the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mcu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mcu\" data-tag=\"mcu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MCU<\/a> to direct Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), working with Rachel McAdams. The pair reunites on their current film Send Help, now available in theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 20 years later, Sam Raimi is open to taking another swing at Spider-Man with a fourth installment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,2528,5692,409,111,139,69,59713,35847,5693],"class_list":{"0":"post-263069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-marvel","10":"tag-mcu","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-sam-raimi","16":"tag-spider-man","17":"tag-spider-man-4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}