Harry Osbourne is credited as the Green Goblin in the casting though. I think they dropped Hobgoblin because it was too close a resemblance anyway.

It looks and sounds grim and tough. The ripping off of the costume makes it a look a lot more humane (possibly disgust?)...

Man I cant wait till next summer! This movie is gonna kick ass!

just saw the preview it looks pretty dark. I think theey arew at least building up to venom, i think.
http://www.hilaliya.com/2006/06/spid...er_here_1.html

From the teaser it looks more likely that Venom will be a villain introducted in #3 and leads into #4. The teaser plays it up like the movie is mostly about the internal conflict that the black costume causes in Parker. And plus we saw a lot of sceens at the church when Parker tries to get rid of the suit and then we see Topher Grace/Brook seeing Parker. It is because of that I think that the church sceen would make more sense at the end of the movie. So these few sceens lead me to beleive that the rumors of Venom showing up for 15 minutes then dieing are very unlikly. Atleast I hope their not true.

saw the extended promo attached to superman returns - looks like we've gone 3 villains here - sandman is clearly there, hobogoblin makes an appearance and, of course, the wicked bit of tailoring Venom.

Superman returns?? :eek:

wait you mean you went to see Superman Returns in the theater and saw the Spiderman 3 promo before the movie? :confused:


:D

Story spoilers courtesy of filmick and Dark Horizons:



Before getting on Peter, the symbiote (the black oil substance) has a rather 50's sci-fi origin (ala The Blob)

- In a church bell tower, Eddie Brock (Topher Grace) follows this black Spidey character and sees Peter ripping himself free of the suit - some of which falls onto Brock, causing him to "become" Venom.

- For most of the film, Spider-Man is in pursuit of The Sandman. Harry as the Goblin (sans mask) fights Peter early on and returns at the end to aid him in the final confrontation with Sandman and Venom at a construction site.

- "Dark Spidey, as it were - Peter before he has overcome Venom - is the one who courts Gwen Stacey. Problems in the relationship with MJ, as well as professional issues compound to bring him down. Even downer than last time. That's how Raimi, Sargent and co are using Venom - as a dramatic device to show Peter not just giving up on his great responsibility, but getting drunk on his great power."

- There are scenes inside Curt Connor's lab, where he studies the symbiote, and these scenes are also used to set up the research that will, in the character's story - though not in this movie - turn him into The Lizard.

- The Black Cat does not make any significant appearance in the film, despite existing, on paper, in various earlier conceptions.

- And the fourth villain? "Makes only a fleeting appearance - Bruce Campbell's character this time around is Quentin Beck, known to fans of the comic as Mysterio".

Found a picture which indicates a really stupied route for this movie.

http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=7050


Based on this picture, Sandman is the original killer of Unlce Ben, which will cause Parker to seek revenge. This desire is enhanced by the black costume. I personaly think they could have done better than saying that Sandman was the one who killed Uncle Ben.
First off if Sandman was even there at the scene, why wasn't he in the car with the robber from the first movie? I just think its a horrible ploit twist. I think that if they were going to have a reason for Spidy to want revenge have Sandman kill MJ, Dunst doesn't want to do Spidy any more anyways so kill her. Let MJ and Gwen Stacey trade places since she is the route of a love triangle in this movie. For the most part MJ has replaced Gwen in terms of major events in the Spider-Man mythos.

Bruce as Mysterio? Two words:

HELL YES!

which sucks....

Mysterio :cool:

Not really, considering MJ has been the major woman in Peter's life the longest in the original comics. Besides, it seems to work in the Ultimate universe. And also this is Sam Rami's Spider-Man, he can preety much change things the way he feels it will work for the story as well as time. But I don't think this justifies the Sandman picture, I'm hoping this is like a dream sequence.