Sam Raimi’s unproduced Spider-Man 4 film is the stuff of superhero movie legend. Now, 12 years after leaving Spider-Man behind, the director gave a rare shout out to the Spider-Man movie that never was.

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Known for cult hits like The Evil Dead, Sam Raimi helped usher in the modern superhero craze with his Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker. Raimi is currently promoting the new crocodile thriller Crawl which he produced. But while speaking with Yahoo the director shared some regrets about the fourth Spider-Man movie he was never able to make.“I think about it all the time,” Raimi said. “It’s hard not to, because each summer another Spider-Man film comes out! So when you have an unborn one, you can’t help but think what might have been. But I try to focus on what will be, and not look into the past.”Since leaving the Spider-Man franchise after Spider-Man 3 , Raimi has spoken publicly about his planned Spider-Man 4 film. There was talk of introducing Vulture as the main villain for the movie and Maguire was slated to reprise the role of Peter Parker.However, Raimi and Sony parted ways before Spider-man 4 ever started production and Sony rebooted the Spider-Man film franchise twice afterwards. Once with Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man movies, and again with Tom Holland in the current co-production with Marvel Studios. The most recent Holland Spider-Man vehicle, Spider-Man: Far from Home , is currently the fifth highest-grossing movie of 2019.While many agree that the Holland Spider-Man movies have been great, there is a dedicated community of fans who love Raimi’s take on the Marvel superhero. So much so that a recent teaser for a new Spider-Man comic book line drew massive anticipation when it was initially believed to be an adaptation of the unproduced Raimi Spider-Man film. It was not Raimi has since returned to his genre filmmaking roots. He served as executive producer on the big creature film Crawl, which we think is pretty fun

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