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Rumors regarding who will play the next Spiderman has finally been quelled with Tobey Maguire finally signing up to play the superhero for not just the fourth, but the fifth installment as well. It’d taken a long time for Sony to sign up Maguire and director Raimi (who had been their choice from the beginning.. i think).

Kirsten Dunst’s name has not come up and the chance of getting her back into the mix might be bleak. But you’ll never know…

Sony is set to film the two movies at the same time citing cost-effectiveness as the reason, but also because it would be hard to get the cast back. Intelligent much! Shooting of Spiderman 4 and 5 should begin in 2009. And no, the film wont be going dark. (so no more emo looking Spiderman this time).

There you go folks! The time has been set for the release of Spiderman’s 4th flick. It’s gonna be May of 2011.

I had earlier written in this site that production have had a hard time casting Tobey Mcguire and Kirsten Dunst to be part of the movie. Patrick Fugit and Michael Angarano had earlier been rumored to play the part. (And I preferred Justin Long.) However, with the renewed interest of Sam Raimi to direct it as well as the three year gap, there’s surely gonna be a lot more updates and changes regarding the plot and the casting.

A villain that comes to mind is Carnage, but we’ll never know. Marvel has a lot of other potential villains including Lizard, Chameleon and Electro. I just hope there would be no more emo Spidey dances come the 4th installment.

The initial buzz was that Kirsten Dunst was likely not be cast in the upcoming Spiderman films to be released on 2009. However, today new rumors have circulated that Sony is also unlikely to cast Tobey Mcguire for the sequel. Of course Marvel isn’t saying anything about this — pretty much so when you have a whole line of other movies to promote.

But while all camps maintain that no offer has been made yet to any actors, the buzz is that two actors are in talk to reprise the role. Who are they?

Patrick Fugit

I totally get the Peter Parker semblance and I think he’d definitely cut it for the part but seriously, I checked for photos of this dude online and he seems to have had the same hairdo since 1999.

Anyway, I dont take him for a bad actor so I guess he’d be a good Spiderman. What’s not going for me though is that he looks a bit old for the part. I checked Wikipedia and he’s apparently 25-26 so guess he fits right in. Tobey McGuire is in his 30’s.

Michael Angarano

The other Spider-dude on the so-called list is Michael Angarano who might probably play Spiderman as well just so he wouldn’t be remembered as “the guy from the Forbidden Kingdom.” Seriously, that movie sucked — and I’m Asian.

What’s not going for me is that while he looks slender and I do think he can act, I dont know, I dont see him swinging ‘cross buildings saving me. My spider sense isn’t getting a vibe. He might be a good villain though… say, Electro?

So anyways
For me, the good thing is that Tobey wouldn’t be there anymore — after his emo dance in the last installment, I sort of lost respect for him and Sam Raimi. On the other hand though, I think people should be looking other places for the next Spiderman.

Care for suggestions? How about Justin Long?