Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies are still considered highlights of the superhero genre (well, maybe not the third one), and fans of his Tobey Maguire-led web-slinger flicks have often cheered for his return to the franchise. Both Raimi and his star have made Marvel returns in recent years – Raimi as director of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Maguire reprising the role of Peter Parker in Spider-Man: No Way Home – but a fourth movie from the duo has long seemed out of reach.
Raimi argues that this is the way it should be. In a new interview with ScreenRant while out promoting his new movie Send Help, which has Raimi reteaming with his Multiverse of Madness star Rachel McAdams, the director claims that Marvel Studios is “better than ever,” but it wouldn’t “be right for me to go back and try and resurrect my version of this story.”
“[Stan Lee] 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 Spider-Man comics,” Raimi explained. “And then after my three movies, I handed the torch off to someone else. And I think they’ve got to keep running with the storyline and the audience that is now following the torchbearer.”
Though Raimi’s work on the Spider-Man franchise seems to be over, Maguire is more than up for returning as everyone’s friendly neighborhood wall-crawler, which has only added fuel to the rumor fire about an appearance in the upcoming Avengers: Secret Wars.
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