David Lindsey-Abaire to Write Spider-Man 4?
So this is another comic-book movie that is confusing me as far as communications goes. Last we heard, a statement given by Sony Pictures, was that Maquire and Raimi signed on to star and direct Spider-man 4 based on a script by James Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt had done multiple drafts before Raimi and Maquire signed on. So now, flash forward to 2 weeks ago where Sam Raimi talked about the film and seemed to know nothing about the script, villains or the movie in general and that he hoped to direct it.
Now here we are with news that according to The Hollywood Reporter, David Lindsay-Abaire, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright in 2007 could very likely be writing the Spider-man 4. According to the trade, Abaire won the Pulitzer for his dramatic play Rabbit Hole.
Columbia is known for getting interesting choices to pen the Spider-man films. Penning the second and third films was dramatic writer Alvin Sargent (Ordinary People). Another Pulitzer writer, Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys), did some work on Spider-man 2.
As mentioned earlier this was a script that was also worked on at one time by James Vanderbilt (Zodiac). So I guess I have to assume is Raimi was right all along and somebody mis-communicated. I guess there wasn’t a script by Vanderbilt or it was not good so they are bringing in this guy to rework it.
Links from Around the Web:
Categories: Movie News
