Here we go again. Just when the “Why does Spider-Man have to be white?” flames are dying down, MTV has to go and ask Stan Lee about the issue. Of course, any statement Lee makes, no matter how small, is going to provide just the drop of fuel to make things flare up again. But here we are. Lee’s response to MTV’s question of whether African American actor Donald Glover should get a fair shot at playing Spider-Man in Sony’s upcoming reboot of the franchise is that it’s probably not the best idea.

Now this is interesting. You may know that Marc Webb is eyeing Jamie Bell, Alden Ehrenreich, Frank Dillane, Andrew Garfield, and Josh Hutcherson for the role of Peter Parker / Spider-Man in Sony’s upcoming reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise (via THR's Heat Vision blog). Well, in the wake of this report, io9’s Marc Bernardin has written an article positing that for their upcoming reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, Sony should not go for any of the aforementioned actors but should hire a black actor instead. In response to the article, reader Rootadoo commented that Donald Glover (of the TV show Community) would fill the role nicely. Then, Glover, who happens to be a Spidey fan himself, heard about the suggestion, decided it was a good idea, and started a Facebook campaign and a Twitter campaign to build support for him to score an audition for the role. Now io9, Glover's site, and virtually every other website with a post about the issue are bursting with some comment posts urging Glover on and others that range from innocent to flat-out racist arguments claiming that Spider-Man should under no circumstances ever be non-white.

In the latest of a string of rants pertaining to Sony's treatment of the Spider-Man franchise, I discussed the news that James Cameron has been brought in to give some pointers to newly-appointed Spider-Man director Marc Webb.

I've argued that Sony seems much less interested in producing a good movie with their upcoming Spider-Man reboot and appears more focused on making quick cash.

/Film, it seems, was the first to find this amazing fan-made video of what a Spider-Man film would be like if directed by Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums).

Just over a week after Sam Raimi and cast walked off Spider-Man 4, Vulture reports that Sony Pictures has hired Marc Webb ((500) Days of Summer) to direct all three installments of their Spider-Man film franchise reboot.

Credit goes to Gizmodo for the initial discovery here. Etsy user moviemagicman has recently made these sci-fi decals available for various MacBook models.

As reported by Techland, somehow someone has gotten hold of James Cameron's storyboards from when he was slated to direct Spider-Man back in 1992 (he eventually left because of the film's legal hang-ups, and Sam Raimi ended up directing it in 2002).

Mike Fleming from Deadline has reported that director Sam Raimi has walked off Spider-Man 4.

Looks like Sam Raimi's determination may have paid off. Italian website BadTaste.it has confirmed that John Malkovich is, as has been rumored, involved in Spider-Man 4.