Sony has recenlty revealed a teaser poster for Spider-Man 4 which is currently under develpoment by Metro Detroitnative director and producer Sam Raimi. May in the local communtiy hope and belive that Raimi will bring at least the second unit of filming of both Spider-Man 4 and 5 (which are set to shoot back-to-back) to Metro Detroit sometime in 2010.
Tonight I went to the Terminator Salvation screens at the Emagine Theater Novi. In attendance was Kalamazoo, Michigan native and Terminator Salvation director McG of Charlie’s Angels, We Are Marshall and the TV show Supernatural fame. After playing around with the audience beforehand by giving the T4’s leading actor Christen Bale an inprompto phone call, McG told the audience that we were about to be the first people ever to see the film in it’s finished theatrical form. However, what was most intriguing about the evening was when he told all of us that he is going to do “everything he can” to bring the next two sequels of the Terminator franchise to his home state of Michigan (According to IMDB, Terminator 5 is set to start shooting in 2010 for a Summer 2011 release). However, McG did note that this coming weekend T4 must perform well in order for Warner Brothers to give him the green light for the next two sequels. Personally, I don’t think that will be much of a problem, Terminator Salvation is a fantastic movie and in my opinion the best thus far.
McG is the second native son of Michigan in the past few months to announce that he is working to bring a “blockbuster” Hollywood sequal to Michigan. This past February Sam Raimi told the Oakland Press that he’s pushing to bring the production of the next Spiderman to Michigan as well. If Raimi and McG are successful, they’ll put Michigan on the map as a State that can handle the biggest, most expensive motion pictures that Hollywood can produce.
In a recent interview with SCI FI Wire, director Sam Raimi said the script for Spiderman 4 should be ready by this comming summer inorder for the film has to make the announced May 6, 2011 release date. This set’s up next summer (2010) for the filmming of Spiderman 4, which many believe will be at least partially shot (second unit photography) in Sam Raimi’s hometown area of Metro Detroit due to the recent Michigan film Tax Incentives.
Sam Raimi has also confirmed that he will be bringing the production his next horror film Room 205 to Michigan (which will be the American version fo the Dansih film by the same name.) Raimi states: “we’re hoping to bring a second film to Michigan, and then follow up with more films. As much as I can I’d like to shoot in Michigan.”
