Spiderman 4 will still be released, but will likely be a “reboot” written by James Vanderbilt. It will be a story of a high-school Peter Parker and Mary Jane. It will be interesting to see how the time line works out, considering that Pete was bitten by a radioactive spider pretty late in high-school. Vanderbilt has worked on such blockbusters (insert sarcasm here) as Darkness Falls, Basic, The Rundown, Zodiac, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and The Losers.

Raimi will instead be working on the movie adaptation of the game World of Warcraft. More precisely, Raimi will be working on a movie to take place in the Warcraft universe. Rumor has it that the movie will be produced by Legendary Pictures, the studio that brought us The Dark Night and 300.

I think that the Spiderman franchise has been slowly weakening since the second movie came out. The third movie was pretty bad, I thought, and Raimi is capable of much better.

Whatever happens, it will be interesting to see if Bruce Campbell (star of the Evil Dead trilogy) will have a cameo in the World of Warcraft movie, as he had in each of the Spiderman movies.