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Sam Raimi Spider-Man Trilogy Writer David Koepp Reveals Original Plans

When director Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man successfully swung to cinemas in 2002, moviegoers by and large were still oblivious to the extent—both financially and artistically—in which comic book movies would succeed, even after coming off the hit genre breakthrough that was 2000’s X-Men. Now, eighteen years and two Wall-Crawler iterations later, it has been revealed that the film in question was originally designed to kick off a more focused and pathologically potent story. David Koepp, who wrote the screenplay to 2002’s Spider-Man, reveals in an interview with Collider that his original plans had paced the film to start a Star Wars-esque…
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Confirmed! Sam Raimi Directing Marvel’s Doctor Strange 2

It seems like a million years ago already but it was only in February that reports surfaced about Marvel Studios possibly approaching legendary director Sam Raimi to take over Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Raimi — director of the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man trilogy and mastermind of the Evil Dead franchise — was said to be in talks to helm the Sorcerer Supreme’s second solo adventure following the departure of the first Doctor Strange’s director, Scott Derrickson, last year. There has been little news on the Doctor Strange 2 front since then, except for a release date shift and…
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