According to the Hollywood Reporter, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is in talks with Sony to write the screenplay for “Spider-Man 4.” It’s not the first script for Lindsay-Abaire and not the first time Sony has tried to tap A-list writers for their Spider-Man franchise. Honestly, we don’t care too much. Michael Chabon was hired to write “Spider-Man 2,” and look how that turned out: while a fun ride, ultimately, the movie was pretty forgettable. The playwright also wrote, “Robots” and “Inkheart” neither of which we’ve seen or care to.
THR says director Kirsten Dunst is expected to sign back on with Tobey MagGuire and director Sam Raimi which is news cause her involvement seemed iffy at best. Whatever, more power to Sony with these films, we’re sure they’ll make a bundle, but unless they can reach the quality of “The Dark Knight,” you can count us out. Perhaps you can tell the only reason we really wrote this story is because we wanted to post this silly-looking graphic.
Lindsay-Abaire is best known for his plays “Fuddy Meers” and for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama, “Rabbit Hole,” which starred starred Cynthia Nixon and Tyne Daly.