Raimi about to begin first draft of Spider-Man 3

SciFi Wire caught up with "Spider-Man 2" director Sam Raimi to find out what the status of sequel number two is. Seems he's still quite a while away from having anything he can plonk on Pascal's desk.

"We've finished a 50-page document and now I'm working with my storyboard artist to work out some of the visuals," Raimi says, "And I'm about to start working with Alvin Sargent [who received the "Screenplay by" credit on Spider-Man 2] on the first draft of the screenplay."

Raimi says he hasn't decide who the bad guys will be yet. "I actually haven't figured it out just yet," he said. "I'm trying to determine Peter Parker's journey as a human being, what it is that he'll be learning on this next adventure, as a kid growing up, what life lessons [he'll experience]. Once I know what that is, I'm going to try to develop obstacles in his path, like any dramatic writer would do. And out of those conflicts will come the drama. Either he'll be able to overcome these conflicts or he won't. But once I know his journey, and therefore the conflicts that are in his path, I'll choose that villain that best represents those conflicts. That's the way in which I've been approaching this, and I'm still not quite there in determining the villain."