it is being reported that J. K. Simmons will reprise his role as J. Jonah Jameson, publisher of the Daily Bugle newspaper, in the fourth Spider-Man movie. This comes after an announcement where Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi would be likely to return as well. Simmons said, with regards to playing Jameson again, “We’ve definitely brainstormed ideas for Triple-J, but I have no desire to make Triple-J more of the focus of those movies. The amount that I did in 1, 2 and 3 is just exactly right. Like, be the wolf. Come in, blow in, do a week, blow out, be the comic relief, and hit the road. And let Tobey and everybody else do the heavy lifting.” Kirsten Dunst is not yet confirmed to return as Mary Jane Watson, the love interest of Peter Parker/Spider-Man, but Dunst has previously been open to playing Mary Jane again provided everyone from the previous films were to return. Sony hopes to begin shooting for Spider-Man 4 in 2010 for a tentative May, 2011 release. Interestingly enough, that coincides with the same month that Paramount Pictures hopes to release Captain America: The First Avenger, another Marvel Comics mainstay. While Sony is producing the Spider-Man movie franchise, Marvel Studios is producing Captain America themselves. Currently, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is serving as screenwriter of the movie after James Vanderbilt took the first stab at writing the superhero flick. Spider-Man was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in the 1960s. Spider-Man 3 grossed $890.8 million in the worldwide box office.