Sam Raimi Shuts Down Spider-Man 4 Villain Rumors 17 Years Later

17 years after the rumors started, Sam Raimi is setting the record straight on villain casting for Spider-Man 4.

After Raimi directed three movies starring Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, development began on a fourth movie, but creative differences and delays led to the filmmaker exiting the project. Before it was announced that Sony would be rebooting the superhero in The Amazing Spider-Man with Andrew Garfield, there were rumors that Rachel McAdams was in talks to play Black Cat as a villain in Spider-Man 4. She denied the rumors shortly after they first broke.

While talking with CinemaBlend and promoting his new movie Send Help, which McAdams stars in, Raimi…