There is online buzz that Marvel Studios could be working on a film based on their comic The Inhumans. The story originated by ItsOnTheGrid who I've never heard of before this rumor they put out. This could be a sign that it's untrue as it's coming from untrusted source. The article from them has since been removed. Yet it does seem to fit inline with an old quote from Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige which he expected a intergalactic film could land at Marvel.
"I'd love to break into the cosmic side of the Marvel Universe even more- it's kind of there in 'Thor.' J.J. Abrams' 'Star Trek' got me jonesing to do that. It's what I grew up on - 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars.' I want to do a big space epic. And we've got them in Marvel." Inhumans was a Stan Lee and Jack Kirby collaboration which is why I believe this could end up happening. Aliens who were put on Earth as sleeper cell aliens to eventually call back their race to take over the planet. Ultimately, the group of aliens fully assimilates and don’t want to cause war. Until there is an official announcement from Marvel this just an interesting rumor.
The villain in Spiderman 4 has not been announced yet. But we are all trying to guess who it will be. I have been betting on the Lizard as being the most probable villain in the next Spiderman movie.
Some days ago I while searching for Spiderman 4 on the web I just found a video interview of Stan Lee, the creator of Spider-Man. The interview dates back to one year ago. But I think it still sounds right and it would confirm the Lizard hypothesis:
Stan Lee Talks Spider-Man 4.
So Stan Lee asserted that:
"A nice logical next villain would be the Lizard because I believe the character has been established in each of the 3 former movies."
I think unlikely that any producer or scriptwriter would counter Stan Lee's viewpoint.
So it's almost a given that the Lizard will be in Spiderman 4. Maybe the Lizard will join forces with some other villains to fight against the superhero Spiderman though.
Update as of 2009/03/16:
"We’re definitely talking about working from all the material in the comic books and nothing [invented] outside of that, 'Raimi continued. 'All the characters or villain or villains, whatever we decide to do will be from Stan Lee’s creations or those that came after him."
Sam Raimi
So Sam Raimi will stay faithful to the original source material. And I bet he will listen to Stan Lee: the old man is still the old man in the house! Quite sure we will have the Lizard by now! ;-)
