Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 4 Got a Release Date 16 Years Ago... and Never Happened. Here's What the Villain Would've Looked Like in the Never-Made Film

Sixteen years agone today, connected March 12, 2009, Sony and Marvel announced that Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 4 would beryllium released connected May 6, 2011. The film, of course, would ne'er beryllium made, with Sony alternatively rebooting Spider-Man with Andrew Garfield... and past with Tom Holland. But we thought it would beryllium amusive to revisit this look astatine the film's villain that astir was!

Spider-Man 4 sadly ne'er happened… but aft each these years, we’ve got a glimpse of the film’s villain – Vulture.

Comic publication writer Ken Penders has unveiled the villain’s mechanical wings connected Twitter – a applicable prop that would person appeared successful the long-defunct Spider-Man 4.

“Before Tobey & Sam were bid adieu by Sony, enactment really had begun connected SPIDER-MAN 4,” helium revealed. “I visited friends who were moving connected the Vulture's costume intended for histrion John Malkovich. Once accumulation unopen down, each materials were turned in. I've sat connected this for astir 15 years.”

Before Tobey & Sam were bid adieu by Sony, enactment really had begun connected SPIDER-MAN 4, and I visited friends who were moving connected the Vulture's costume intended for histrion John Malkovich. Once accumulation unopen down, each materials were turned in. I've sat connected this for astir 15 years. pic.twitter.com/iY3VmzUrHI

— Ken Penders (@KenPenders) November 28, 2022

Vulture made his MCU debut played by Michael Keaton successful Spider-Man: Homecoming. However, this iteration of the classical MCU villain featured mostly CGI wings.

Spider-Man 4 was a antithetic communicative – requiring Malkovich to don this beauteous mechanical rig.

Unfortunately, it ne'er happened. The movie was yet canceled by Sony, yet starring to a reboot starring Andrew Garfield arsenic Peter Parker successful The Amazing Spider-Man.

What happened to the wings? Well, remarkably, they were sold online and ended up connected show astatine Edmonton's Prop Museum successful 2019.

Awesome! I'm guessing your person was portion of the Frontline Design team. I cognize those wings were sold online and were displayed astatine Edmonton's Prop Museum successful 2019 earlier closing down. pic.twitter.com/ID053oybIE

— Fillmoreantidote (@DolosGallo) November 28, 2022

As for the decorator who worked successful them, helium was besides liable for Maguire’s Spider-Man 3 suits.

“He was besides liable for fabricating Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man costumes successful SPIDER-MAN 3,” added Penders. “He said the web signifier connected the costume was the hardest happening astir making the costume.”

According to conception creator Jeffrey Henderson, Spider-Man 4 would person featured a fistful of classical Spider-Man villains, including “a montage of C and D- database villains that we knew would ne'er beryllium utilized arsenic main antagonists: Mysterio, the Shocker, the Prowler, the aged school-onesie-wearing mentation of the Rhino, possibly adjacent the Stilt Man, etc.”

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Note: This communicative primitively ran connected Nov. 28, 2022.

Ryan Leston is an amusement writer and movie professional for IGN. You tin travel him connected Twitter.