Eddie Brock: It's Brock, sir. Edward Brock Jr. I come before you today, humbled and humiliated, to ask you for just one thing. I want you to kill Peter Parker.
Mary Jane Watson: What's happened to you?
Peter Parker: I don't know. But I have to stop it.
Harry: Looks like I came just in time.
Spider-man: Yeah, few seconds ago wouldn't have been so bad either.
Eddie Brock: My spider-sense is tingling, if you know what I'm talking about.
Eddie Brock: I like being bad, it makes me happy.
Venom: Never wound what you can't kill.
Answer: At one point in time, Sony was set to make "Spider-Man 4" with director Sam Raimi and stars Tobey MacGuire and Kirsten Dunst. However, Raimi was unable to find a script he was satisfied with after many months of working with different writers, and he was having issues with the studio attempting to force the film into a 2011 release date, which he felt wouldn't give him the time he needed to make a quality film. Thus, he and the actors dropped out and the studio instead opted to go ahead with a reboot, in the form of The Amazing Spider-Man.