Rami and Tobey on Board for Spiderman 4

Great news! The star and director of the first three Spiderman movies are locked in for the fourth of the series. /Film tells us:

Sony has locked in both Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire for Spider-Man 4. Kirsten Dunst’s Mary Jane character is said to be included in the sequel(s), so the actress is rumored to be returning as well. And in the execs’ best case scenario, Raimi and Maguire would shoot Spider-Man 5 back-to-back. This would confirm what we reported this May: Screenwriter James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, The Rundown) turned in a script for the third sequel that, much to Sony’s liking, segued smoothly into an arc for a fifth film. Specific details on what it took to bring back the original star and director are not yet available. Spider-Man 4 remains set for a May 2011 release.

Despite the unpleasantness of Spiderman 3, I really am glad these two are back in this movie. Spiderman 2 is still one of my favorite superhero movies of all time, and I know that these two can bring back the magic again. I really hope they bring in Lizard to be the villain. He is one of my favorite Spiderman villains and I'm sure Rami could get a lot of milage out of him. I really hope they don't use somebody lame like Electro. That guy blows. Alot of people want Carnage to show up, but I don't know. He could go either way. I'm just kinda sick of the whole symbonite thing.