As Sony tries to figure out what to do with the rebooted series of Spider-Man, the original director behind the first three movies reveals the real reason he left the project after the arguably disastrous third film and who would've been in the fourth installment had he made it.

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Movie Pilot dug up an old interview on Wednesday that had director Sam Raimi talking about the original Spider-Man trilogy and what made him leave the project that eventually led to the reboot with Marc Webb directing and Andrew Garfield playing Spidey.

"It really was the most amicable and undramatic of breakups: It was simply that we had a deadline and I couldn't get the story to work on a level that I wanted it to work. I was very unhappy with Spider-Man 3, and I wanted to make Spider-Man 4 to end on a very high note, the best Spider-Man of them all," he said.

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"But I couldn't get the script together in time, due to my own failings, and I said to Sony, 'I don't want to make a movie that is less than great, so I think we shouldn't make this picture. Go ahead with your reboot, which you've been planning anyway.'"

Raimi added that he left with good standing at the studio and was only doing what he did to try and give the best movie possible.

"[Sony co-chairman] Amy Pascal said, 'Thank you. Thank you for not wasting the studio's money, and I appreciate your candor.' So we left on the best of terms, both of us trying to do the best thing for fans, the good name of Spider-Man, and Sony Studios," he said.

But who would've been in the film? According to the report, John Malkovich was lined up to play Vulture, Dylan Baker (who appeared in the previous movies) would have played Lizard, and Anne Hathaway was being eyed for Black Cat.

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