Is Sam Raimi directing the new Spider-Man film?

Thomas Haden Church has said he’s “heard rumours” there’s a new Spider-Man film in the works, and it’ll reunite Spider-Man trilogy director Sam Raimi with lead star Tobey Maguire.

Church, who played the villain Sandman in 2007’s Spider-Man 3, and reprised his role in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, talked with ComicBook about the potential new project. “There’s always been some kind of…I’ve heard rumors…that Sam Raimi was going to do another [Spider-Man movie] with Tobey [Maguire] and if that happens, I would probably campaign to maybe at least do a cameo.”

Since Marvel lifted the lid off the multiverse in Spider-Man: No Way Home, nothing’s off the table in terms of revisiting legacy characters. There are definitely stories to be told in the 15 years since Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker last swung into cinemas. Or maybe we’ll see an older, 40+ Spider-Man fighting a new wave of supervillains.

Raimi not only directed three Spider-Man films between 2002 and 2007, but more recently 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which developed the concept of the multiverse even further. 2023’s Across the Spider-Verse, meanwhile, added hundreds of Spider-Man variants, ensuring the next director of Spider-Man won’t be stuck for choice.

For more Spider-Man shenanigans, check out Across The Spider-Verse's strange deleted scene.