Sam Raimi told Empire magazine that he already has an idea for the villain in Spider-Man 4. He said: “I like it in the Marvel comics when Spider-Man fights Morbius… He’s really cool. A vampire! I like that combination of superhero plus supernatural.”
In the comics, Morbius wasn’t actually a vampire in the supernatural sense; instead he was a Nobel-prize winning biochemist who (unwisely) attempted to cure his rare blood disease with a combination of vampire bats and electroshock therapy – giving him ‘vampiric’ characteristics. The character became an important part of the Marvel universe, doing battle with Spidey, the Human Torch and the X-Men.
The film is currently at the script-writing stage, with the last news on the project being that Pulitzer-prize winning author David Lindsey-Abaire had been signed on to co-write the sequel.
- courtesy of IGN.com
