Raimi Off Spidey 4

Off the back of Ruud's links to the problems with Spiderman 4 comes the news that not only has it been put back until 2012, it's now a reboot with Peter back at school. Oh and Sam Raimi's off the project. So is Tobey Maguire. I'd imagine that means everyone is. Shamefully that means we won't get to see John Malkovich as The Vulture, which seems to be the source of the problems between studio and director.

Now Spidey 3 was shite, but a lot of that now is clearly thanks to studio intervention. This thing looks like it's going to be entirely the result of studio minds clashing. In fact it appears that rebooting superhero franchises is the done thing in Hollywood right now with Fantastic 4 supposedly getting redone, Superman definitely getting one and Hulk having already had one and might be getting another. Looks like lukewarm reviews from the geek community is now enough for studios to totally shake up any comic book property. Expect Thor's reboot to be announced about two weeks after it comes out.