SPIDER-MAN COMING BACK WITHOUT TOBY MAGUIRE OR SAM RAIMI

WHAT??? Columbia Pictures has decided to take Spider-Man 4 in a completely different direction. Spider-Man himself, Toby Maguire, and the director of the first three, highly successful films, Sam Raimi, are both out. The studio is going with a "younger, cheaper" installment of the franchise. The next SM will have Peter Parker back in high school and come out in summer 2012. (isn't that the year the world ends?) Last week it was announced that Spider Man 4, which was supposed to start shooting in February, was on hold due to script problems. Columbia has to keep developing Spider Man projects or the rights will be returned to Disney/Marvel. The studio apparently anticipated the team working on the 4th installment falling apart, because they already had another script, by James Vanderbilt, ready to go about a teenage Peter Parker. That movie is now in production. No star or director have been named. At least we won't have to look at Kirsten Dunst[source]