Spider-Man 5 & 6 Being Written By Dave Gonzales on August 17, 2009 Sony, Sony, Sony. I knew I'd be reading a lot of news about you today if District 9 did well. Now, look at you: rejuvenating White Girls and starting the process of a Spider-Man 5 & 6. The current Spider-Man in the works, Spider-Man 4 is in pre-production prepping for a start next year. After Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Raimi all agreed to re-negotiate various contracts (the stars had only signed on for 3 Spider-Man films when the first flick made bank), Spider-Man 4 looks like it's actually going to arrive, albeit four years after the third installment. It's actually a Spider-Man sequel pattern, with the second film coming two years after the first and the third film three years after the second. But Sony doesn't want to wait 5 years for a fifth installment, and has already hired James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) back on the property. Vanderbilt wrote a draft of Spider-Man 4, only to have his script re-drafted by  playwright David Lindsay-Abaire and - currently - Gary Ross (writer/director of Pleasentville). When Vanderbilt first joined the project, the idea of shooting Spider-Man 4 and Spider-Man 5 at the same time looked like it might happen, but as soon as Maguire and Dunst came on, scheduling became difficult and Raimi was hesitant to take on more than one huge sequel. Now that 5 & 6 have the same writer and are being linked together, it makes sense that the two installments post-4 will likely serve to bring a new Spider-Man guard to the screen, possibly even without Raimi (as he'll go off to shoot his World of Warcraft movie). That means a new Spider-Man/Peter Parker will be annointed and two films shot simultaniously will introduce the new webslinger to the world! But, that's still getting ahead of ourselves. Spider-Man 4 still needs to ferry the franchise into the future, while providing and entertaining film. Personally, I just want Raimi to prove that the unbalanced, villain-saturated 3 was a fluke. Source: Trades Tags: Sony Pictures, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Sam Raimi, News