8:45AM Seth | While regular Nikki Finke readers know she
don’t do geek, you’d be forgiven for assuming from today’s column that she occasionally dabbles in dweeb: Watch as she churns a Spidey Wiki’s worth of Peter Parker biographical material cross-referenced with the latest villain indexes into the mother of all
Spider-Man 4 exclusives, its vital insider information fed to her in the basement of a Century City parking structure by an anonymous figure known only as Deep Flack. The basics:
Spider-Man 4, based on a screenplay by
Zodiac writer Jamie Vanderbilt, is a go, with Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire on board. Kirsten Dunst’s character is in the script, but hasn’t yet signed on. The “black costume” won’t return. They may shoot
4 and
5 back-to-back. As for villains, well, we’ll leave you now to Finke’s capable deductive services:
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