Rumors: Marvel Studios in Search for ‘Spider-Man 4’ Director as Watts Is Out of the Picture

MCU has quite a slate of movies coming up, even though Marvel Studios has hit a rough patch with the last couple of projects. There have been talks about releasing fewer projects, as fans are definitely becoming tired of shows and movies of lower quality; still, if one character always managed to drag people to movies, it’s Spider-Man, by far the most profitable Marvel franchise, no matter the product you’re looking at.

So far, talking about the MCU specifically, Spider-Man has three standalone movies and a fourth on the way. This was confirmed several months ago by producer Amy Pascal, who confirmed that the work on the sequel has been ongoing but stopped due to the solidarity with the ongoing WGA Strike at the time. Just several months ago, rumors were circulating that Watts is ready to return again as ‘Spider-Man’ 4 director. But then rumors appeared that Drew Goddard was the prime candidate to replace him.

Now a couple of weeks ago apparently a huge debate went down concerning the direction of the upcoming movie. Allegedly the movie was either going to take a more grounded street-level approach or go big on the multiverse saga. Either direction makes sense in the context of Spider-Man if we take into account that ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ already touched upon the Multiverse theme, but also Daredevil and Kingpin were rumored to appear in the next installment.

Now if Daniel Richtman, a notable scooper and leaker is to be believed, Feige “won” the debate and Jon Watts will definitely not return to direct the movie. This implies that the story will be of a more grounded character compared to what Watts started with ‘No Way Home.’

We don’t know the current shortlist when it comes to directors, but hey, anything can happen. There were also scoops here and there that Miles Morales will have his live-action debut in the movie, so who knows?

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