John Dykstra, who won an Oscar for visual effects on "Spider-Man 2," will pass up "Spider-Man 3" for another project, The Hollywood Reporter said Monday.

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Dykstra will instead work with director McG on Columbia Pictures' "Hot Wheels." He told The Reporter he would miss the "Spider-Man" crew, but "Hot Wheels" was a great opportunity.

"I'm an adrenaline junkie; it's an avocation," he said. "And what's cool about 'Hot Wheels' is it allows us to explore the language of cars -- from NASA Formula One, to tuners, hot rods, classics, dinosaur cars, monster trucks and so on."

Sony Imageworks' Scott Stokdyk -- who was also on the Oscar-winning "Spider-Man 2" visual effects team -- will take the lead on visual effects for "Spider-Man 3."

Dykstra previously won an Oscar as part of the visual effects team for "Star Wars" in 1977. He also received a scientific-technical award that year for developing "a facility uniquely oriented toward visual effects photography."