David Rogers

Actually LOTR's record should tie-in nicely with what it looks like the Spider-man trilogy will be; a trio of story-connected movies.

This is probably a brilliant idea; it's like a "mini-franchise". A renewable franchise. Every 5-7 years, a trio of movies come out with the same creative teams. Then, after a few years 'down time' while they recast and get new folks onboard, another triology comes out to renew it. So we have the Rami Spider-man trilogy, and then they'll get another team (new actors, etc...) and do another set of flicks.

Hopefully they do it like this. Because shelving Spider-man is stupid. Not that they should crank crap out, but I believe there are dozens of movie-quality stories available for Spider-man to start in. Hopefully we get some more of those stories onto the big scree-n.

And the cross-character deal Fox and Son-y worked out is stupid. Nothing would be better for both movies (say Daredevil 2 and a new Spidey) than to have the heroes cameo in the other flick. Fans would love it, fan fans as well as mere movie fans. Why? It's just cool is all.

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Im pretty upset about this news..
spiderman for me was one of the best movies I've ever saw.
I liked part 2 also.
to hear some executive say audiences only want 1 more really upsets me, how does she know what we want?
I want them to continue making spider-man movies with the current cast as long as they can.
I hope someone at sony calls for ms. pascall's resignation.
sure some series jump the shark (go down hill)
but the current spider-man movies are so good..
that its suicide and a blow to fans to end it with just 1 more

Pete-D

I really would be surprised if either Toby or Kirsten agreed to do a 4th film.

I think they'll have to recast for a 4th film no matter what.

I would like to see James Cameron finally direct a Spider-Man film, since he was supposed to do Spider-Man right after Terminator 2.

He wrote a rough outline which you can read online.

I don't think he'll be game though, post-Titanic it seems like he's pretty picky about what he chooses (to put it mildly).

oscar_merkx

Looks like Sam spoke too soon

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/041018f.php

Spider-Man 3
Arad stated that Sam Raimi miscommunicated about #3 being the final movie. He definately foresees more Spiderman movies to come but they like looking at one movie at a time and not beyond.


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Eddy-C

Theres no deal between Sonny and Fox. Its between Marvel and each of the companies. Since WB owns D.C. comics they can cross-over character properties if they wish, but Marvel sold each property to different studios to spread out the money and output of films-

(look at D.C.'s current line up. catwoman in 2004, batman in 2005, superman in 2006. While Marvel's had Blade in 1998, X-men in 2000, Blade 2 and Spider-man in 2002, Daredevil and X-Men 2 and The Hulk in 2003. The Punisher and Spider-Man 2 and Blade 3 in 2004, Elektra and Fantastic Four in 2005, Ghost Rider and X-Men 3 in 2006, and Spider-Man 3 in 2007. Not to mention the DOZENS of other movies they have in development including Ironaman and the Wolverine spin off.)

I think one of the Marvel sites lists what studio owns each property.

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An update on Spidy 3 ...courtesy of Sci-Fi Wire

Damn.. we still don't know that villain this time yet.

Raimi Writing Spidey 3

Sam Raimi told SCI FI Wire that he and his brother Ivan are still in the earliest stages of writing Spider-Man 3. "We've finished a 50-page document and now I'm working with my storyboard artist to work out some of the visuals," Raimi said in an interview while promoting the DVD release of Spider-Man 2. "And I'm about to start working with Alvin Sargent [who received the "Screenplay by" credit on Spider-Man 2] on the first draft of the screenplay."

Raimi noted that he's still toying around with different possibilities for a chief villain or villains to duke it out with Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), a.k.a. Spider-Man, in the second sequel. "I actually haven't figured it out just yet," he said. "I'm trying to determine Peter Parker's journey as a human being, what it is that he'll be learning on this next adventure, as a kid growing up, what life lessons [he'll experience]. Once I know what that is, I'm going to try to develop obstacles in his path, like any dramatic writer would do. And out of those conflicts will come the drama. Either he'll be able to overcome these conflicts or he won't. But once I know his journey, and therefore the conflicts that are in his path, I'll choose that villain that best represents those conflicts. That's the way in which I've been approaching this, and I'm still not quite there in determining the villain." Spider-Man 2 arrives Nov. 30 on DVD, while Spider-Man 3 is set for release on May 4, 2007.

Kevin M

Well maybe that's not a bad idea.....I doubt it will happen considering that this is Hollywood we are talking about....but the theory is a reasonable one IMO when taking into account what happened to the Batman series.

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Anthony Neilson

I read a version of that article that said he was thinking about either the Goblin returning, Kraven the Hunter and/or The Vulture. I like the fact that he's sticking with the old-school villains. Going by what he's saying, he's almost duty-bound to have the Goblin back, which'd leave space for another villain. They've tried to jam two villains into both the movies but have wisely not crowded the movies till now. But given there'd be no need to give us a Goblin origin, it might just work this time. Personally, I always liked Electro ( in the old costume) or the Circus of Crime (not the right name).

If they use the Vulture, I can't think of anyone better than Larry David to play him.

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Stay with one villian, please!

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Ernest Rister

It is patently obvious that Harry Osbourne is going to go Gobby in Spider Man 3, the entire ending of SpiderMan 2 is a tease for it.

Spider Man fights his best friend, who will probably capture MJ, everyone's favorite wonder hostage, and say really mean things to her.

There were at least three potential villains in Spider Man 2 -- the one-armed doctor who messes with reptile DNA to regenerate his limb and becomes the Lizard or whatever, and then there's the astronaut fiancee of MJ, who gets zapped with radiation or cosmic villain rays in outer space and becomes some sort of bad guy. And then you got Harry, who is left looking at a bunch of Goblin Gear and the infamous Make-You-Go-Crazy Goblin Gas.

Maybe Spider Man 3 will have all three. Spider Man 3 with three villains. You can make the posters yourself.

But at least one of them is going to be Harry, and Raimi is just being coy. Harry is going to be the bad guy, at least one of them. The potential for juicy personal drama is just too great.

Paul_Scott

that seems like the natural progression of the material to me-

or at least the implication that Osbourne is putting on the costume, (and then throwing the audience a curve ball by having someone else actually in it while manipulating Harry and having him think he's the one doing it (replete with blackouts and memory lapses).

if they do go for 'goblin mark II' i hope they do a radical redesign of the costume.
the original wasn't freaky, wasn't imtimidating, wasn't creepy, and was no more 'realistic' than anything else.
it was just silly and stiff looking, especially in broad daylight.
the rigid, non emotive face mask was a particularly bad way to go as it reduced both hero and villian to looking like plastic, non emotive action figures.