Update: June 2, 2016
Storyboards for Sam Raimi's Scrapped SPIDER-MAN 4 Featuring the Vulture and Mysterio
Jeffrey Hendeson: "Ahhh, Spider-Man 4. Of all the projects I’ve worked on, I get asked about this more often than anything else. I hope that one day I can, (or somebody can), finally tell the whole story of Sam Raimi’s ‘abandoned’ fourth Spidey movie."
"Until then, out of respect for Sam, (and fear that he’d send Bruce Campbell to come after me with a chainsaw…), and everyone that worked on, or contributed to, this project, let me just say this:
It would’ve been one absolutely kick ass movie. Seriously. We were working on some crazy- cool stuff, because everyone, from top to bottom, felt that Spidey 3 was a bit of a ‘missed opportunity’, and we all really wanted to help Sam take SM4 to another level so he could end the series on a high note."
"Unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be, but I did get to spend a few years working on 'OZ, The Great and Powerful', which was just amazing…
but that’s a whole ‘nother post."
"Anyway, Sam is almost superstitious about releasing any storyboards for anything, (go back and look at every 'The Art Of' book for every movie he’s ever done… you know what’s not gonna be there? Anywhere? That’s right: storyboards), I don’t really know why- but that’s just how he feels about it.
So, having said that, here are some ‘boards I can share, (without pissing Sam off), from the mysterious Spider-Man 4."
io9 (via
Comicbook.com) reached out to Henderson, and he confirmed that Campbell was only going to make a cameo as part of “a montage of C and D- list villains that we knew would never be used as main antagonists: Mysterio, the Shocker, the Prowler, the old school-onesie-wearing version of the Rhino, maybe even the Stilt Man, etc.”
Henderson also shed some light on Raimi's take on Vulture. “The thing we kept coming back to was that, as a character, everyone was going to dismiss the Vulture as just an old guy in a silly green suit,” Henderson said. “So we wanted to go the opposite way and really make him the most fearsome and formidable adversary that Spider-Man had faced in the series.”
http://www.planethenderson.com/#/spiderman4/