User blog comment:Jamie/Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4/@comment-1307414-20130618030821

A quadrilogy is a pretty tough thing to do. You may suffer from audience fatigue and face the possibility of two movies of set-up just for the fourth one. But Sony must be really confident (really don't want Marvel getting Spidey) to do this.

We could see the build-up to a Sinister Six film for ASM3, leading to Green Goblin in ASM4. Unless they decide to kill Gwen in ASM2, meaning they're either changing the mythos (which would be a disaster, in my opinion) or introducing Goblin at the end of this 2 for a cliffhanger leading into 3. But then what about 4? Would Gwen's death be saved for 3's cliffhanger? This could be why M.J. is introduced in 2 as a foil for Gwen/love triangle, but then if Gwen dies in 3, would they really have Peter and M.J. together in 4? Unless she dies in 2 -> grievance in 3 -> Peter and M.J. in 4? Hmm.

Well, I thoroughly enjoyed ASM, and think Andrew and Emma were the PERFECT Peter and Gwen, and they work incredibly well together (which was part of the reason why ASM was such a joy for me).