Danny Elfman drops out of SPIDEY 3 - Is Sam Raimi a "pod person"?

Has cult-favorite director Sam Raimi been replaced by a pod person? Apparently Danny Elfman thinks so. Elfman will not be returning to compose SPIDERMAN 3, and when asked why by CHUD’s Devin Faraci, Elfman stated that SPIDER MAN 2 was “a miserable experience” because of his dealings with director Sam Raimi. Sounds kind of strange. Elfman went on to clarify.

Elfman: My connection to Sam got completely severed. As far as I’m concerned, he went to sleep and somebody put a pod next to him and when he awoke, he wasn’t the same person I’ve known for a decade.

Chud: Will you work with him again?

Elfman: No. He went from right there, number 2 on my list of favorite directors, to the last – to the exact opposite of everything I look for in a film experience. Everything I could do on Spider-Man 1 I couldn’t do on Spider-Man 2. He got so intensely attached to the temp music, I couldn’t even adapt my own music. I couldn’t get close enough to me.

It’s the first time I’ve ever walked from a director in twenty years, and hopefully the last time. He became intolerable. I’ve been on some heavy duty films, so to say that it had to be pretty bad. I have been in war zones you wouldn’t believe in 55 films. But this is the first time I’ve said, I’ve had it. It’s just not worth it. I would rather go back to waiting tables than to do Spider-Man 2 again.

Interesting. However, if Raimi has been replaced by a pod person, that would partially explain those ***censored*** movies like THE GRUDGE and BOOGEYMAN that he’s been producing lately.