Sam Raimi Wants Kirsten Dunst…And A Good Screenplay
Sam Raimi has told reporters that he has a meeting scheduled with Kirsten Dunst to talk with her about reprising her role as Mary Jane Watson in Spiderman 4.
“I’m hoping that she is going to come aboard, and I’ve got a meeting coming up with her,” Raimi said. “I think she would like to. But I don’t want to speak on behalf of her.”
He was also asked about the possibility of Spiderman 4 going edgier and darker in the wake of The Dark Knight, to which he reiterated that he hasn’t seen the script yet but he’s hoping for writer David Lindsay-Abaire to produce a “really good one” from which he will determine the direction of the fourth movie.
“Whatever it is, I think will be a direct result of the best style to bring about our writer’s screenplay. And as soon as I read that, I will know what that is. Edgy could be a direction, but I don’t think it will be applied without really understanding the character’s journey from the inside out first and then figuring out the best way to bring that about.
And then as far as the other influences, making it different from the other films, … I hope we don’t react to these very good and sometimes bad superhero movies around us. I hope that we just take ever deeper into the truth of who Peter Parker really is. As a human being and the unique character, and that we celebrate that, which is a lot of the reason I want to make this next picture. I still believe I have an understanding of Peter Parker as the character that I have not quite put onto the screen yet.
I’m not talking about Tobey Maguire’s performance, which I very much love; I’m talking about my understanding of the character. I feel like sometimes a kid at the piano recital. And I know this piece really well. I know it by heart. And I sometimes get it right, and sometimes I don’t. But I want a chance to really play it the way I feel it. So I’m hoping it’s a really good screenplay, and I can express the character through that. I’ve got a really good writer [David Lindsay-Abaire].”
Read the full interview at Sci Fi Wire.
Spider-Man 4 is scheduled for release in the US May 6, 2011.
