Sam Raimi revealed to MTV that Spider-Man 4 is currently in pre-production, but will start shooting in March of next year.
We're hoping that it's the first week in March. The production is starting to come together. I've got a production designer who is starting to design the sets and the environments that the picture will take place in. We just brought aboard Scott Stokdyk as one of the two visual effects supervisors, and I worked with him on all three Spider-man pictures.
Raimi says the script is still be re-written by writer-director Gary Ross.
He's working on a draft. I just gave him some notes and he's doing a rewrite right now.
Ross is becoming very familiar with the Spider-Man universe. Once Ross finishes the Spider-Man 4 script, he'll start re-writing the script for the Venom spin-off. Raimi, meanwhile, will start the casting process. Tobey Maguire is set to return, Kirsten Dunst finally agreed to come back, and Bruce Campbell will have a larger role, but the rest of the cast is a question mark.
None of the casting has really taken place, but we're starting to think about that now.
Once the casting process really begins, perhaps the possible villains of Spider-Man 4 will finally be revealed.