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So here’s the scoop people DeadlineHollywood is telling us that it looks like Tobey Maguire will be reprising his role as Peter Parker in Spider-Man 4, and along with him Sam Raimi will continue directing the film. Kirsten Dunst is still unconfirmed to keep her part as Mary Jane. It also looks like these idiots will be filming Spider-Man 4 and 5 back to back!

It’s time to end once and for all the rampant speculation. Sony doesn’t want any info to leak but I’m told that both star Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi will be returning to make Zodiac screenwriter Jamie Vanderbilt’s script of Spider-Man 4. Sources tell me that Sony has recently locked in both veterans of Spider-Man 1 through 3. And I do mean recently because just a few weeks ago sources told me that Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal was openly discussing Tobey’s potential replacements [A topic we covered back in May] with various Hollywood agents because Tobey was hanging tough about a deal. “She was looking around to cover herself because Sony wanted him badly and Tobey wasn’t sure he wanted to do it,” an insider explained to me. There’s no deal yet for Kirsten Dunst but Mary Jane Watson will be in the movie again. I’m told Sony “would never recast her” despite her rehab problems. But expect another gal part, too.

So on top of all that news, here’s a few tid-bits on the Venom spin-off. Apparently Topher Grace is still the front runner for Eddie Brock because the has that “Boy next door look”….stupid, very very stupid.

And Sony has hired a pair of screenwriters to get going on the Spider-Man spinoff movie Venom. Given that comic book artist/writer and action figure maker, Todd McFarlane, who is one of the creators of the Marvel villain, doesn’t think a Venom movie could do well with a villain as the central character, my sources think Sony should let Topher Grace, even though he was blown up at the end of Spider-Man 3 (yet a portion of the Venom costume survived), stay in the role because the like able actor could be a a sympathetic evildoer.

Are you freakin kidding me!?! what is this crap?! The third movie was an absolute disgrace to superhero movies and they are actually trying to make a fourth AND fifth movie?! Money hungry fools is what Sony is, trying to milk the franchise for everything its worth eh? Who could they possibly use for the villain? I mean seriously? They killed off the best one in the last damn movie!!! I would assume someone like the Lizard or maybe try and put carnage in this one (Doc Conners still had that tiny test sample in his lab from Spider-man 3). So who knows…will it suck? Yes…Yes it will.