I am – Hercules!!


Break out that Who’s Who In The Marvel Universe; Spidey’s going to need more villains.

James Vanderbilt, screenwriter of “Darkness Falls,” “Basic,” “The Rundown” and the first draft of “Spider-Man 4,” is already on board to script “Spider-Man 5” and “Spider-Man 6,” even if Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst aren’t signed to “5” and “6.”

Vanderbilt’s draft of “4” has already been rewritten by David Lindsay-Abaire (“Robots,” “Inkheart”) and Gary Ross (“Big,” “Dave,” “Seabiscuit”), but I reckon Columbia liked something about that early draft. Plus? “Zodiac” rocked.

I do wish Columbia could work something out with Paramount, Fox and Universal so all the Marvel characters would cross over into each other’s movies. (Impossible, you say? Well, Universal controls Hulk and Paramount controls Iron Man, so I don’t know anything’s impossible as long as there’s a buck to be made!)

Find all of Variety’s story about the “Spidey” scripting here.

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