just before she was injured on-set when a desk hit her as she was shooting a scene where she falls out of the window of a building. Years later, Raimi would say in interviews that it was his fault for not keeping the various subplots trimmed down and in focus, and that he didn't believe in all the characters.īryce Dallas Howard (who played Gwen) learned that she was pregnant while filming the stunt scenes (which she decided to perform herself) during production. In addition, Arad and the producers pressured Raimi to shoehorn in the Gwen Stacy character, and there was so much material on the drawing board that scriptwriter Alvin Sargent planned out scripts for an additional film after 3 in order to resolve all the subplots. Rumors after the film's release (and mention in the retrospective by Midnight's Edge) suggest that Raimi hired Topher Grace to play Eddie Brock out of spite towards Arad, while the latter reportedly wanted Venom in the film in order to setup a spinoff (he would get his wish, in a roundabout way, more than a decade later with the release of the standalone Venom (2018), which is set in a different continuity). Producer Avi Arad ordered Raimi to include fan-favorite character Venom in the film, despite his objections. Just after the film's debut, Sony immediately initiated production of a third installment, with Sam and Ivan Raimi spending two months crafting a treatment that would see Peter Parker growing as a character (and coming to realize that even criminals have humanity), the Green Goblin storyline being closed off, and Spider-Man facing off against the Sandman (and later, the Vulture, who was intended to be played by Ben Kingsley, with the latter being in negotiations for the role).

The troubles started soon after Spider-Man 2's release. The details behind this film's sordid history have been covered in multiple works, including the Spider-Man 3 Chronicles book, numerous interviews and a feature-length documentary by YouTube creator Midnight's Edge.

The circumstances behind the film's development are so infamous that it caused Sam Raimi to bow out of production of a planned fourth installment just before it went into production. It's later established that the universe this movie (along with the rest of the trilogy) takes place in is Earth-96283.Ī few months after the events of Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker prepares for his future with Mary Jane Watson and faces off against three new villains: Flint Marko, who is transformed into 'The Sandman' after a freak accident involving a particle accelerator Harry Osborn, his former friend who is now aware of Peter's identity and seeks to avenge his deceased father and Eddie Brock, a rival photographer who becomes corrupted by an extraterrestrial symbiote known as 'Venom'. Simmons, Bryce Dallas Howard, James Cromwell and Rosemary Harris. It starred Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, J.K. Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 American superhero film and is the third and final film in Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy. It can take you over and, before you know it, it can turn you into something ugly.' - May Parker

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