Things like these are bound to happen when you set a release date before you have a solid script. ‘Spider-Man 4′ was all set to release on May 2011 and kick off the summer season with a bang. Looks like that won’t happen anymore.

Deadline Hollywood reports that the culprit here is the script. More specifically, Sam Raimi still doesn’t like the script that he’s working with and there is apparent clash between Sony and Raimi over the villain of the film. Also, Anne Hathaway won’t be playing Black Cat anymore due to a high salary demand. In short, the movie is nowhere near ready to be made even though the script has been run through by talented screenwriters like Jamie Vanderbilt, David Lindsay-Abaire, and Gary Ross.

If it doesn’t make the May release date, it would have to release somewhere in July since the rest of the schedule is jam-packed with the likes of Harry Potter, Transformers etc. And of course, Sony really needs a tentpole film for the year since it’s no surprise that Spidey films are huge earners globally. But they rather not try to stuff too many villains into the film a la Spider-Man 3 and instead work out the story issues and release a much better film.

I would love The Lizard or Mysterio to be the villains. Just saying.