New Spider-Man 3 Footage Shown at Comic-Con
Here's details on the new footage Sam Raimi brought to San Diego.
The entire cast of Spider-Man 3 came to San Diego's Comic-Con last week and joined director Sam Raimi and producer Laura Ziskin in previewing the film with an extended teaser trailer.
Here's how it's described by a Superhero Hype source: "It opens with Tobey Maguire looking into a mirror and opening his shirt to reveal a black costume, with a voice over from Aunt May, 'Uncle Ben wouldn't want us living with revenge in our hearts, just like voices that take you over and turn us into something ugly.' The daunting title card comes on saying 'All Will Be Lost,' and then the next scene shows Topher Grace as Eddie Brock walking through a church with a voice over of him asking someone 'to do one thing for me. I want you to kill Peter Parker.' Parker also has what appears to be a nightmare sequence where he looks into a bathroom mirror and Venom is a brief flashing screeching reflection."
More: "The rest of the teaser footage went by way too fast to describe in detail, but we did see Harry Osborn in a black ninja-like suit swinging a samurai sword at Peter Parker and there were extensive fight scenes between Spider-Man and Sandman, which weren't even close to being finished, but looked quite fantastic. There was also a little more footage of the new Harry Osborn/Goblin character, which Raimi explained later wouldn't be called either the 'Green Goblin' or the 'Hobgoblin,' but it is Harry using his father's Goblin equipment to get revenge on Peter Parker.
"The footage ended with Topher's Eddie Brock feeling something black and gooey hit his hand--obviously the symbiote--and it cuts to the very first image of the computerized Venom, who looks exactly like he does in the comic book if rendered in 3D, looking straight into the camera with his jaws wide open and drooling. If you're a fan of Venom, you're not likely to be
disappointed."
Raimi then introduced Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Bryce Dallas Howard, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace. Grace admitted to being a fan of the comics, particularly the Todd McFarlane years, and said he liked being able to play a darker version of
the Peter Parker character.
"Before the end of the panel, they showed a few new images of all the characters new and old. Kirsten Dunst's Mary Jane was surrounded by what looked like black webbing (though it could have been strands of the symbiote), Bryce Dallas Howard was simply sitting in a chair, Tobey Maguire
had a very Superman-like pose with him ripping open the shirt to show the black costume. The two new villain shots were the most interesting, as Thomas Haden Church's Sandman had his back towards the camera with a small child holding a teddy bear standing behind him (which will probably be a big part of his story) and Topher Grace was in profile with the symbiote covering the back of his head and starting to spread over his face."
You can audio interviews from the panel here and here.
Spider-Man 3 opens May 4, 2007.