Spider-Man 3
Producer Laura Ziskin on Spider-Man 3's BO Competition
"Well, we’re first," said producer Laura Ziskin. "We’re very lucky. It’s a very, very crowded summer and I know you all can’t help but make it a big competition but we think we have a great date. We think we have a great movie. So maybe there’s some theory that you build up that excitement and the more good movies there are, the more people want to go. I hope that’s true."
The date was set more than two years ago, before Spider-Man 3 rolled before cameras, as is common practice in Hollywood. The previous two release dates were taken into consideration.
"Well, the first movie was the first week in May. The second movie, we would have wanted to be the first week in May but when we started, we knew we couldn’t make it so we took the July date which was a good date for us but we never felt as good as the May date. So is it voodoo that the first movie was in May and we set records so that’s now the Spider-Man date? I don’t know. But we knew going in, Sony said, 'You’re making this date.'”
As audiences await the third adventure of Peter Parker, Ziskin reflected on the entire body of work the three films encompassed. "It’s certainly been a treat for us as filmmakers to watch in particular Peter Parker grow up. All of the movies are in some way or another identity stories. Who am I? I’m Spider-Man. Who am I? I’m this nerdy kid. Fate intervenes, this thing happens, how do I deal with it? The second movie is okay, now this thing happened to me but it’s keeping me from having the things I want. What do I do? Always coming back to he has to accept his fate and learn to live with it. This third movie being at the end of the second movie, he kind of got everything he wanted and that seemed like a really fun place to start and different from where we’ve been before."
All the films have a moral lesson for Peter to learn, but in Spider-Man 3, he has to go to some dark places before he can come back. "It felt like it would be fun to start him, to give this nerdy kid who was always longing, reaching for something, to put him in a position where he kind of thinks, 'Oh, I kind of have what I want. Gee, this feels kind of good.' And he becomes, as people often do in those circumstances, careless. And it opens him up obviously to his dark side. So it’s been really a treat to explore over the course of three movies, the growth of the character."
Spider-Man 3 opens to theatres on May 4th.
For the trailers, posters, stills, clips and additional movie info, go to the Spider-Man 3 Movie Page.
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