Sam Raimi has chosen his next project?

Sam Raimi doesn't take on Spider-Man 4 as his next project. It seemed to me that he had lost some of his passion in the last flick and although I'm far from blaming him for how the film turned out, you could tell Spider-Man 3 didn't have that precise and meticolous direction he used in the previous two films. His trilogy is done, it's time for him to move on. Latino Review are reporting that Raimi has been offered two projects as his next feature, one coming from Columbia Pictures and the other from Dreamworks. Both are science fiction flicks... First up, The Grays which is being setup at Columbia and is based on Whitley Strieber's sci-fi novel of the same name...

Story concerns an alien race who essentially function as the "United States of the cosmos" -- running things on Earth as well as on other worlds. Operating in secrecy, the aliens are unwilling to reveal themselves for fear of altering mankind's development.

Second it's No Man's Land being setup at Dreamworks by producer Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald...

"It takes place in New York City eight years after ... the alien invasion that we lost," Parkes said in an interview. "And it imagines New York City kind of like Paris during the Vichy government , where we've all sort of just given up. And there's this race of aliens living there that get all the good tables, and the shops are kind of collaborating. And there's an incipient underground movement to take the Earth back."

Both movies sound like they have a bit allegorical resonance with our the Western worlds relationship with the Middle East. I kinda like the sound of them both and Raimi hasn't really done a full out sci-fi movie before, although he has come close on several occasions. Latino Review are almost always spot on, so it will be interesting to see how this develops but remember, just because he has been offered the projects, it doesn't automatically mean he wants to do them.