Tobey Maguire ‘Spider-Man’ standalone might be coming, Thomas Hayden Church says
nypost.comSpider-Man” films over 22 years, could be donning the old Spandex suit once again in his very own Spidey flick, according to a former co-star.Thomas Haden Church, who played the villainous Sandman in 2007’s “Spider-Man 3,” told The Post that a new Maguire-led flick might be on the way.“Sam Raimi is doing, from what I’ve heard, he’s going to do another standalone ‘Spider-Man’ movie with Tobey,” Church, 63, said.Sandman’s inclusion, added the actor, has “gotten sort of floated a little bit.”Raimi directed Maguire’s aughts trilogy, as well as the more recent MCU movie “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”In a gift to fans, 48-year-old Maguire and Church returned to their Marvel roles in 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” alongside fellow Peters Tom Holland (“Spider-Man: Homecoming” and “Spider-Man: Far From Home”) and Andrew Garfield (“The Amazing Spider-Man” and “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”).“They had an option for me to do another,” Church said. “Of course, everybody’s asking, like, well, does [‘No Way Home’] fulfill that?
And so [Raimi] said, ‘No, no, we still want to have the option to use him in a standalone Tobey movie.’”Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige told Entertainment Weekly in Feb.
2023 that a fourth film starring Holland was in development — even after the catastrophic events of “No Way Home.” “All I will say is that we have the story,” he said. “We have big ideas for that, and our writers are just putting pen to paper now.”But that move would not necessarily prevent Sony, who owns the film rights to the character, from pursuing an altogether separate Maguire picture.
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