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A lizard fight scene at the beggining wouldn't necessarily "overcrowd" the film...it'd be a good scene to start the film off with, and who knows, after he puts the beatdown on the lizard, he'll probably go to investigate at the lab, and I'm sure that's where he'll find the black suit (as history-spoiling as that would be)...either that or they'll follow the 90's cartoon and have Jameson Jnr. bring it back from space...I don't really like the idea of that. But yeah, all that would only eat up maybe a half hour of the film...I mean, the lizard would never make a main villain anyway.

Of course Harry will try out the Green Goblin bit...Harrys part is already more or less worked out, not a lot of further info required there, he'll just have small scenes as per usual, and a fight scene as the goblin.

So really all they have to focus on is the Sandman and how he's involved in everything...Towards t he beggining of the spider-man series, he's just a thug that'll do whatever for the money, so it's feasable that he'll have been contracted by Harry - another storyline shrinking shortcut. I'm interested in how they'll have him develope his powers though.

The Eddie Brock character being incorporated as a secondary throughout the film won't be that hard (I personally think they might have him as simply a competing photographer which is KINDA true, or turn him into an obsessed fan of spider-man who feels ignored)...and turning him into venom at the end is no big thing, they don't have to show much at all...this film (if the black suit is as involved as the poster would have us convinced) will just be a precursor to the whole Venom thing...it'll probably be at the very end (eg - after spider-man in the "suit" near-kills or does kill Harry or Sandman, he decides he's gotta ditch it, Brock finds it...done.

Essentially, it'd be a fight, a new character introduced, another fight - potentially a "team-up" of two of the villains, and a little "venom" type scene at the end.
(I'm betting you'll see a few tendrils, and next to nothing else after Brock gets the suit, it'll all be in shadows, and you'll hear it hiss "Parrrrker" and/or laugh, and that'll be it)...all in all, if it's just slightly longer then the last two, and done well, I don't think it'd be all that crammed.