Malkovich officially for Vulture?

Honestly, you can’t go for a morning webswing through the city without crashing into another piece of Spider-Man 4 news.

This time, it’s some pretty exciting stuff that flies in the face of the doom and gloom that has so far clouded the project. Depending on how much you like John Malkovich, of course...

So there you have it. Malkovich has always been Sam Raimi’s numero uno pick to play Vulture in Spidey 4 , so it’s not a massive surprise.

Except we know that the film’s much-reported delays almost exclusively revolve around Raimi’s fights with Sony over who should be the new film’s antagonist. Here, it seems that Malkovich is signed up and ready to squawk.

We’ll keep our ears to the ground for more on this one...

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Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.