{"id":2249049,"date":"2026-01-25T00:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2249049"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:36:33","slug":"sam-raimis-spider-man-4-will-never-happen-because-it-wouldnt-be-right-to-resurrect-my-version-i-handed-the-torch-off-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sam-raimis-spider-man-4-will-never-happen-because-it-wouldnt-be-right-to-resurrect-my-version-i-handed-the-torch-off-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Raimi\u2019s \u2018Spider-Man 4\u2019 Will Never Happen Because It Wouldn\u2019t \u2018Be Right\u2019 to \u2018Resurrect My Version\u2019: \u2018I Handed the Torch Off to Someone Else\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000600\/\">Sam Raimi<\/a>, who helmed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0001799\/\">Sony<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0145487\/\">Spider-Man<\/a>\u201d film franchise from 2002 to 2007, recently told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0758149\/\">ScreenRant<\/a> that his versions of Peter Parker and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14137250\/\">Mary Jane Watson<\/a>, played by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001497\/\">Tobey Maguire<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000379\/\">Kirsten Dunst<\/a>, \u201chave gone elsewhere\u201d with little hope of returning to the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0498278\/\">Stan Lee<\/a>\u2019s great character \u2014 that a bullpen of writers in New York at Marvel had come up with stories for \u2014 he created the character, but so many people contributed, so many artists, that for a brief time I was handed the torch to carry on after 40 years of \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0145487\/\">Spider-Man<\/a>\u2019 comics,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3348380\/\">Raimi<\/a> said. \u201cAnd then after my three movies, I handed the torch off to someone else. And I think they\u2019ve got to keep running with the storyline and the audience that is now following the torchbearer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1288558\/\">Evil Dead<\/a>\u201d director explained that a new generation of superhero fans is \u201creally into\u201d the new \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm17532407\/\">Spider-Man<\/a>\u201d era led by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4043618\/\">Tom Holland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Raimi, who helmed Sony\u2019s \u201cSpider-Man\u201d film franchise from 2002 to 2007, recently told ScreenRant that his versions of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson, played by Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, \u201chave gone elsewhere\u201d with little hope of returning to the big screen. \u201cStan Lee\u2019s great character \u2014 that a bullpen of writers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2249050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2249049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sam-Raimis-\u2018Spider-Man-4-Will-Never-Happen-Because-It-Wouldnt.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249051,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249049\/revisions\/2249051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}