Spider-Man 3

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Watch New Spider-Man 3 Clips!
Source: Sony Pictures

New Spider-Man 3 clips (including a glimpse at Venom) aired during the showing of Spider-Man 2 on Fox Thursday night, and you can watch them combined in QuickTime format The clips feature director Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Thomas Haden Church and Topher Grace talking about the highly-anticipated third installment.
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Maguire Doubts More Spidey
Spider-Man actor may call it quits.

Could it be curtains for Spider-Man on the big screen -- at least in his current form? While Sony Pictures seems to have their minds set on three more films after the current trilogy, franchise star Tobey Maguire may have other ideas.

"This might be a good place to stop -- I am not tied contractually to anymore Spider-Man movies," Maguire is quoted as saying in a World Entertainment News Network report.

The star is still open to the possibility of another movie, but it would have to feel right. "I am not completely closed to the idea of another one if it made sense but I would say the odds were in favor of this being the last one," says Maguire.

Maguire's on-screen flame Kirsten Dunst has hinted that she's not too keen on the possibility of more Spider-Man films either. "I'm not the type of actress who does movie after movie." she's been recently quoted as saying.

Are the two stars genuinely tired of the Spidey franchise, or might they be jockeying for a big pay increase as new contract negotiations begin? Would Sony immediately recast the role if Maguire dropped out, or would they let the franchise lay low for a while?
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picolas

just when i was finally starting to get excited about spider-man 5.

polkablues

Just think of it as a second chance to cast correctly.
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McfLy

Quote from: polkablues on December 01, 2006, 06:39:58 PM
Just think of it as a second chance to cast correctly.
Agreed.

Kal

If Rocky 6 goes well... they could do a Spiderman from the future, when he is old, and decides to put the suit on once again. Jack Nicoholson would be good for this...

Pubrick

Quote from: kal on December 02, 2006, 11:24:53 PM
Jack Nicoholson would be good for this...
no way, that would be an insult to his iconic joker.

peter fonda would be a cool old spiderman. if he's still alive.
under the paving stones.

polkablues

Dustin Hoffman.  The world needs a tiny, Jewish Spider-Man.

If he's busy, then Woody Allen.
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New Spider-Man 3 TV Spot!
Source: ComingSoon

The first TV spot for Sony Pictures' Spider-Man 3 has appeared online at the official Japanese website for the anticipated film. The clip includes new footage.


Trailer here.
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The Secrets of Spider-Man 3
In an exclusive excerpt from Premiere's January/February cover story, Premiere.com untangles some of the mysteries surrounding the webslinger's third adventure.

Director Sam Raimi on why Spidey will finally face off against Venom: "[Avi Arad, the former chairman and CEO of Marvel Studios] said the fans want to see Venom. I come from a different generation. I read the comic books in the '70s, where it was Green Goblin, Sandman, Electro, Mysterio, the Vulture. It was not until the late '80s that Venom came about. But Avi said, 'I'm telling you, they're waiting for him. Don't be selfish. Spider-Man is everyone's myth, not just yours.' "

On casting Peter Parker's new love interest Gwen Stacy: To realize his vision, Raimi drew from both likely and unlikely sources for the casting. "Gwen Stacy is this buxom blond, and I'm this red-headed character actress," says [Bryce Dallas] Howard (The Village, Lady in the Water).

"I was really, really shocked. Especially when I saw pictures of the character, I was like, 'What? Aren't there a million other women walking around in Los Angeles right now who actually already look like this?'" Says producer Laura Ziskin, "My joke is, I cast a blond as a famous redhead, and a redhead as a famous blond. There were a lot of hair issues."

On Peter Parker's "evil doppelgänger" Venom: Double Your Fun: Topher Grace plays Eddie Brock, a.k.a. Venom, "an evil doppelgänger of Peter," says Grace. "He dresses better, he's kind of good with the ladies, and we gave him a lot of hair gel."

Why Spider-Man 3 meant four times the stunts for star Tobey Maguire: For Spider-Man 3, Raimi says, Maguire multiplied his action scenes "by, like, four-fold." One extensive sequence has Harry fighting with Peter, who doesn't have his Spidey suit on. "It was more work for me, but it was fine," Maguire says of the maskless battle. "It's actually good when you've got the faces in there, because you get to feel for the characters and react more."
"It is cool for me and hard on Tobey," Raimi notes. "He's got to do everything he could possibly do as Spider-Man. Stuntmen can fill in for the wide shots, CG can fill in for the outrageous stuff. But he's had to do a tremendous amount of physical action, of rolling, tumbling, leaping, landing, punching, fighting, falling." It's a touchy subject, because Spider-Man 2 almost imploded when there was talk that Maguire couldn't return because of back problems. "We're always careful with him," Ziskin says. "I mean, he has chronic problems and he works on it and he has a chiropractor, and we're careful in terms of what we ask him to do."

On Raimi's blissful unawareness of his stars' personal lives: Raimi does seem quite attached to his cast; he's watched them grow up over the course of three installments. "Remember on the first movie, Tobey and Kirsten had a thing?" he asks. "I'm so dumb, because I met with them for dinner one night during the shooting to talk about the next day's scenes. And I go, 'Okay, well, that's it for the meeting.' And then I ask Kirsten, 'Can I drive you home?' And they look at each other and she goes, 'No, no, I'm going to play a game of Touch 10 with Tobey.' I don't know, it was some game. I thought, 'That's weird. She's got to work tomorrow.'

On the future of Spider-Man: "I'm sure they'll keep making Spider-Man pictures," says Raimi, who has signed up for each one individually. (Maguire was contracted for all three.)"Amy [Pascal, Sony cochairman] told me that she would. I love Spider-Man. And I love working with Kirsten, Tobey, James. I don't know if Thomas and Topher will be around in the next one, but probably Bryce will be. But I have to make sure that when I'm done with this picture I'm really still fascinated with the character. At this moment I'm fascinated with him. Whether or not I will be in six months when the movie's done I couldn't say. And I absolutely would not have anything to do with the picture unless I was hungry to tell the story."

Could Raimi imagine doing Spider-Man without Maguire?

"I'd rather not," he says, and then, "No, I couldn't imagine it."
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Columbia, Koepp talk 'Spider-Man'
Studio in talks with writer over fourth installment
Source: Variety

Shortly after getting their first look at "Spider-Man 3," Columbia Pictures execs have begun negotiating with David Koepp to pen the script for a fourth installment of the franchise.

Koepp, who most recently wrote the draft of a fourth "Indiana Jones" project that got George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford to reteam for Paramount, scripted the 2002 Spidey film that launched the studio's most lucrative franchise.

Alvin Sargent scripted the second and third installments; all the pics in the Marvel Comics franchise were directed by Sam Raimi.

"Spider-Man 3" bows on May 4, with Thomas Haden Church playing Sandman and Topher Grace as Venom. Laura Ziskin produces with Avi Arad and Grant Curtis.

Col is just beginning the process of development on the fourth Spidey pic -- a pricey exercise since new deals will have to be made with Tobey Maguire, Kirstin Dunst and James Franco, along with Raimi if he decides to return to direct a fourth film.

The studio would release the pic in 2009 or 2010.

The first two movies had a combined worldwide gross north of $1 billion.
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matt35mm

That, sir, would be a mistake.

Kal

I dont think it will be a mistake... we have to see the third one... how it turns out as a movie and how good is for them as a business... it will be interesting because not only they will analyze how much money it makes, but also how much it makes in comparisson to Shrek 3 and Pirates 3, as the three movies open almost at the same time.

The mistake will also be making them if Raimi, Dunst and Tobey are not involved. Something tells me that they will ask for a combined salary of over 100 million... so it will be difficult.

matt35mm

Quote from: kal on January 21, 2007, 11:27:27 PM
I dont think it will be a mistake... we have to see the third one... how it turns out as a movie and how good is for them as a business... it will be interesting because not only they will analyze how much money it makes, but also how much it makes in comparisson to Shrek 3 and Pirates 3, as the three movies open almost at the same time.

The mistake will also be making them if Raimi, Dunst and Tobey are not involved. Something tells me that they will ask for a combined salary of over 100 million... so it will be difficult.

I meant the hiring of Koepp.