lol wow I forgot Scorpion in my movie thing. This is how I would do it if I was Raimi. 6 movies. Here they go.
Spiderman - Green Goblin
Spiderman 2 - Dock Ock
Spiderman 3 - Harry (Hobby prob), and Hydro-Man
Spiderman 4 - Lizard, Scorpion. Intro Brock. Bring suit to earth.
Spiderman 5 - Electro (maybe a few minor villains) Show Brock's hatred. Spiderman rejects suit. Goes on Brock.
Spiderman 6 - Venom
And bam you got the main villains, a good ending, and everything is nice and happy.
They could make the lizard, by doing what they did in the old jurrasic park movies......make a lizard look 10 times bigger and there you have it, spidey vs the lizard. They might have fight scenes with a camera close up on a lizard and a spidey figure attacking the lizardn ow you may see the hand holding the figure but it would be a risk they would have to take.
Oh man guys. EVERYONE can be happy.
Dump Maguire and Dunst. Topher Grace isn't Venom, but instead Spider-man. he looks more like Peter Parker and he's done comedy so he could do a funny Spidey much better.
It'll be like Batman. No one questions why Batman looks slightly different every other movie.
Scarlet Johannesan as MJ. She can die her hair red, and make a perfect MJ.