Accord­ing to Cin­e­mat­i­cal, Zodiac screen­writer James Van­der­bilt has turned in a work­ing draft for the 4th spider-man movie. The real kicker is that the story arc pre­sented spans two films, poten­tially allow­ing both to be filmed at the same time.

We’ll see how this and Spider-man 5 develop in the com­ing months.

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 In an inter­view with Dark Hori­zons, Avi Arad, pro­ducer of Spider-man one to three and every Mar­vel film in-between, men­tioned that he would be work­ing on two new projects: Venom AND Spider-man.

Ques­tion: And the other thing of course is you haven’t really left Mar­vel behind com­pletely right? I mean you’re still per­son­ally involved in Hulk and Iron Man …

Arad: ..and Spi­der­man. And I’m mak­ing Venom.

Ques­tion: So what’s dif­fer­ent about you doing those movies now as against when you were directly in charge of Marvel? 

Who knows which vil­lains will star in the fourth fea­ture film, but there are a few hints out there as to which char­ac­ters will be favoured. First up, in Jan­u­ary this year, Dylan Baker, who por­trays Dr. Curt Con­nor, said this in an inter­view with IGN:

IGN: Have they talked to you about becom­ing The Lizard in a future sequel?

Baker: Only Sam [Raimi]. Only Sam. And, of course, the whole thing is in his head. So as long as his bril­liant ideas keep com­ing, I’ll go with him.

IGN: When Sam hired you for Spider-Man 2, did he talk to you about the char­ac­ter in the comics and what hap­pens to him?

Baker: Yeah, but only in broad strokes. We’re get­ting a lit­tle more spe­cific now, but it’s still pretty broad.

IGN: So you’d be up for a lot of hours in the makeup chair to add the green skin and scales?

Baker: Absolutely!

And in a more recent MTV arti­cle con­cern­ing the next movie, Raimi talked about some of the vil­lains he would like to see:

“I would love to see Elec­tro, Vul­ture, maybe the Sin­is­ter Six as a team”

Slash Film have a great fea­ture dis­cussing the odds and like­li­hood of see­ing each of Spider-man’s foes. They gave The Lizard a 95% chance, Elec­tro 73%, Hydro-man 68%, etc. with lonely Rhino at the bot­tom with a measly 9%.