Just weeks ago, Spider-Man 4 director Sam Raimi was "working with the writer [David Lindsay-Abaire]" to "work out a story" and were "closing in on Spider-Man's adversary or adversaries." Raimi told SciFiWire that Lindsay-Abaire is "hard at work, and hopefully we'll see something in about three months."
So with the story worked out, surely Raimi must know the villain(s) by now, right? Said Raimi:
I'm not at liberty to discuss the villains yet. I think I
have to wait till the finished screenplay, and then it'd really be up to Sony Pictures and the producers to determine when they want to
release that information. To them, it's usually a big, a big, big
thing, a big moment where they want to present the villain with the
proper respect or fear that he or she deserves.
Oh, ok. No problem. Fans just have to wait for three months for Sony to hopefully approve the script and feel comfortable enough to make that announcement. If the Wolverine workprint Internet leak proves anything, with more than 75,000 downloads in just a couple days, its that fanboys have zero patience.