Peter Parker Picks Pulitzer Playwright for Spider-Man 4

Posted by Adam Sweeney (adam@filmschoolrejects.com) on November 4, 2008

Spider-Man 4 Signs a Pulitzer Winning Writer

Not even alliteration could save Spider-Man 3, but could a Pulitzer Prize winner swing in and save the day for the Spider-Man franchise? Columbia Pictures thinks so.

Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his drama “Rabbit Hole”, is in final negotiations to write Spider-Man 4, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Pulitzer writers are no stranger to the Spider-Man film community. Michael Chabon, who won the Pulitzer for the brilliant fictional story “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”, helped with Spider-Man 2. What happened to James Vanderbilt’s draft of Spider-Man 4 is a mystery. What matters is that Sam and Ivan Raimi won’t be the ones writing the script. They should have learned their lesson.

I have to say that this gives me hope for Spider-Man 4. Lindsay-Abaire has described his plays as often being, “peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.” If that isn’t the ultimate character outline of Peter Parker then I don’t know what is. Most importantly, the choice of Lindsay-Abaire indicates that Columbia is serious about focusing on the characters in Spider-Man 4, and hopefully not the dance moves of Tobey Maguire. Tobey, you have a background in dramatic acting, show us this. I beg you. Having said that, it may be best to temper expectations, Lindsay-Abaire did help write the screenplay for Robots after all.

What the story will center around is anyone’s guess, though it likely will revolve around Peter Parker’s (Tobey Maguire) relationship with Dr. Curt Connors (Dylan Baker), his professor who eventually turns into The Lizard. Sorry, Venom fans. I don’t see him being resurrected. In fact, I wouldn’t doubt it if Raimi, director of the first three Spider-Man films, put that as a stipulation to come back for part 4. Now will he kill off The Lizard? Why not, he’s killed off nearly every major Spidey villain so far, why stop now? There are some Spidey fans who think Kirsten Dunst, who may come back to play Mary Jane Watson, would be better suited to play a new villain called Snaggletooth, but that is highly unlikely. Whatever the case, it is nice to see Columbia taking their web-slinging superhero more seriously.

What do you make of Columbia’s choice of David Lindsay-Robaire? What would get you in line to see Spider-Man 4?

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Trace

LOL Snaggletooth...

Aleric

Until they actually start filming and them Sam Rami will make changes and Tobey will be crying too much and they will bring in 6 more do nothing villians for 5 minute cameos and everyone will cry together.

Bottom line there is too much crying in Spider Man these days.

JMoney

i want action sequences in my comic book films, how is a playwright going to accomplish that?

bmovie74

I can't stand Tobey Maguire! They have ruined this whole Spider Man series for me by casting him as Peter Parker - anyone else would have been better. There is nothing cool or interesting about him and I feel like I'm watching 120 mins centered on the nerd from gym class...Boo this man!

big K

I don't care who writes it (actually, I do), but for the love of Sweet Optimus Prime, keep the emo hair, dance routines, and musical numbers out of it!

P.S. : Where is it written that one of Spider-Man's powers is "weeping like a god-damned milk baby"? He was boo-hoo-hooing all through "Spider-Man 3"!

leonkennedy

you guys need to stop talking shit on spiderman 3.. thats all i hear everywhere, yet
still the movie did great financially in the box office... it shows a lot, sounds like
everyone liked it more than they hated it, numbers speak more clearly.

frankly it wasnt as good as spiderman 2, and yes venom was kinda crammed in
there at the end, but the movie overall had good strong points and held up well
together, sam raimi hasnt failed as a director and is still that amazing director that
brought us evil dead and such great movies

I think it was great how they tied up lose ends on this spiderman and made it a
open but also ended spider man. In the end it really shows that they can make a
fourth or they could stop on the third.

the venom character was pushed so far because all the fans wanted it so badly and
kept whining about it and so he did it... i think personally sandman and harry would
have just been great villians and it could have turned out the same and people
probably would stopped complaining as much.

as far as him dancing in the club... if your as much as a dweeb as peter parker is
you would do that as well..... you get this evil shit on you that makes you do shit
you dont normally do... and as far as him crying?!?! come on he was in love with
the only girl hes ever wanted in his whole life and she was a total bitch to him and
blew him off and stepped all over him, as if you little pussies havent cried over a
girl before.

before anyone calls him an emo spiderman you should think about how many times
in your life youve cried over stupid little shit like getting punched in the face by a
bully, you probably cried, or some girl you EXTREMELY fell in love with and she went
and fu**ed the school jock... yeah you probably cried you fu**ing nerds.

Adam Sweeney

@leonkennedy

Big numbers in the box office does not make it a good film. Let's clear that up.

I am one of the biggest Spiderman fans around. That doesn't mean I can't remove my bias and admit that was a weak and convoluted story that underestimated the intelligence of the audience.

And if you mean they killed almost every important character in the Spiderman Universe, well, then I guess they did tie up loose ends. Now there are only a handful of decent villains. No, Mysterio doesn't count.

I have never considered myself cool but I also know I wouldn't jump on top of a table and act like an ass. A symbiotic suit turns you evil, it doesn't make you turn into Fred Astaire. I have no problem with Peter crying, but the story made you dislike both Peter and Mary Jane.

And people are calling Peter emo Spiderman because he wore eyeliner like he was a backup singer for My Chemical Romance. Most guys don't do that. Have we loved and lost? Sure. But that doesn't change the fact that Spiderman 3 was awful and Sam Raimi has a lot to redeem himself for.

Pjsteele

Kirstin needs to be replaced. I want Sophia Bush to play Maryjane.

borf

bmovie, screw you Tobey Maguire is great as Spiderman! Don`t you see, he looks exactly like Spiderman, he`s very mature and takes things the proper way like Peter, he`s not a lame guy he`s just a normal guy.

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