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Pulitzer Prize-Winner David Lindsay-Abaire to Write Spider-Man 4

Posted on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta

Sony is in final talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire to write Spider-Man 4. It’s unclear if Lindsay is doing an entirely new take on the material, or if he’s rewriting James Vanderbilt’s recent draft. THR claims that director Sam Raimi and stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst are all expected the return for the fourth film.  As expected, plot details are non existent at this point.

Most of Lindsay-Abaire’s plays center around “outsiders in search of clarity”, a view of life which no doubt formed while being a lower-class student in the prestigious boarding school. Lindsay-Abaire is known for his character work, which might mean that Sony is trying to address the problems of the third film.

The bad news is that Lindsay-Abaire has writing credits on two screenplays, Robots and Inkheart, neither of which would be considered great scripts. Lindsay-Abaire’s 2006 Broadway stage production of Rabbit Hole starred Cynthia Nixon and Tyne Daly. David also recently wrote the lyrics for Shrek The Musical. The hire of a pulitzer prize-winning writer is nothing new for the Spdier-Man series, as one of the writers on Spider-Man 2 was Michael Chabon, another Pulitzer winner.

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  • whatever
    We'll get it regardless, but I really wish they'd stop destroying spiderman like this. We've had enough of this version. Why not reboot it? Worked fine for bats.
  • The franchise doesn't need a reboot, we just need the next one to be so good it'll make us forget there was a third one. So good that twenty years from now conversations will go like this:

    Buddy 1: "I remember those old school Spidey movies, 1, 2, 3-"

    Buddy 2: "Dude, there was no Spiderman 3. Sony just skipped to 4."

    Buddy 1: "Sure there was, I found an old copy in the landfill, it had Venom and Sandman, and Peter did that John Travolta thing down the sidewalk-"

    Buddy 2: "NO... there was no... such... movie. Ever."
  • whatever
    Yeah sure would be nice, but how many 4th comic book movies are actually better than the third? We're just going to repeat the past. Thanks a lot hollywood, you bums.
  • no wonder spider-man 2 was way better than the others. i really hope this movie gets made along with part 5 like they planned. i wonder what was wrong with the other guys script?
  • orange cinema
    I just wanna see the gang back together with an amazing script. I feel the harry potter films have gotten better with each installment, and I believe the same can happen for our wallcrawler. I'm curious about vanderbilts script, but I'll take another Pulitzer authors vision of this world.
  • I was really excited to see James Vanderbilt's version of Spider-man made into a movie...

    Considering that Sam Raimi recently said that they didn't have a script for Spider-man 4 yet, my bet is that for some reason they threw out the Vanderbilt script when Raimi came on board again.

    After Spider-man 3, I have no faith at all in Raimi but I was hoping that a screenplay written by someone else could make the next Spidey-movie work.
  • jdrake
    Love spider-man, hated the third movie, but still have faith in the core cast and Raimi. for the record, Lindsay-Abaire's play "rabbit hole" is really really good.
  • edog
    I don't think that the writing of the 3rd one was so bad, but the constraints it was under were just too much. The plotline would have really worked well over 2 films, with the first film ending with Peter defeating the symbiote. That would have given more time to develop Venom's character, allowing more time for the build-up for what was really a great final battle between Spidey, Venom, Sandman, and the (Hob)Goblin. No superhero movie has managed that many heroes battling that adeptly.
  • septemer11th
    how do i shot web?
  • Wall•E Plays Pong
    I'm glad to see some of the same thoughtfulness going into preproduction that was seen in Spider-Man 2. I hope before production begins, there will have been much time taken to figure out how another great movie can be made so that there is a clear, original, and creative approach that the filmmakers can feel excited about approaching.

    I listened to the commentary on Spider-Man 3, and it sounded like major plot points were shifted around in production (like MJ replacing Gwen in the final battle) that were done to counteract problems Raimi felt uneasy about in the script in the first place. Things just got messy and repetitive as a result. I'm hoping if more time is spent getting a good script and story in place, a more coherent and "unforced" story will result. I think Raimi has proven he is more than a competent director, and I like someone else said in another Spidey article, I hope he's working with material he's much more interested in this time. He'll also have a break from the Spidey universe with other projects and directing this time instead of jumping into another movie right away, which should help.
  • seanovan
    I finally saw Spiderman 3 last night, well, about a half-hour was all I could tolerate. What a shit movie.
  • Spiderman 3 kind of was not trying to deliver to much stuff
    going on and way too long! so far the best of the saga
    was part 2, i hope the next ones are worth it.

    introduced the Sinister Six for part 6...
  • B33
    Ha ha. Well said.
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