Spider-Man 3 on Premiere
Sam Raimi Talks Spider-Man 3 Details Including the Big V(enom)
Part of the '2007 Must-See Movie Preview' is an interview with Sam Raimi. Unless you live in a hole in some third world country, you know the number one topic on Raimi's mind is Spider-Man 3. The director was nice enough to discuss some new details from the film including Venom and the somehow-immortal Gwen Stacy.
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."
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."
Check out the full report with Sam Raimi over at Premiere.
Spider-Man 3 opens to theatres on May 4th, 2007.
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