The Prediction
While websites like superherohype.com resign themselves to reporting that Spiderman 3 will have 4 villains, I say phooey. You heard me, phooey!
-there are all kinds of villain reports, at least 4 that seem very real, yet Raimi hasnt yet done more than one villian per film, out of his own love and respect for each villian that comes from his reading of the comics as a kid. So why now would he just throw in every character ever, following the formula that brought the batman franchise down? By golly, I say he wouldn't! Perhaps though, he could handle 4 villains spread of two movies. Clue number 1!
-I read an interview with Raimi a while back in which he said he and his brother Ivan were finishing up a "50 or 60 page" treatment that they would then hand over to Alvin Sargeant to flesh out into a full script. 50 pages is a damn long treatment for one film, but, I submit to you here and now, it seems quite a reasonable length for TWO films. Clue number 2!
-Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire are both only signed on for 3 films. Both have said during past interviews to promote 1 and 2 that they weren't interested in spending their whole careers making Spider-Man movies and that the third would be their last. Does this stump my argument, you wonder? On the contrary, it is my greatest evidence! It seems to me that the perfect way to convince them to do a 4th film is to shoot it at the same time you shoot the 3rd. Clue number 3!
-They've done two films, films 3 and 4 of a franchise are potential death traps (see Batman), films become rehashes. So what can the Spider-Man franchise do to avoid following the same boring path as Batman and Superman. Shooting 3 and 4 back-to-back would give them a close proximity in release dates and would be a perfect excuse to give 3 and cliffhanger ending. What do you do with MJ and Peter's relatinship at this point? How about have them break up at the end of 3, then get back together in 4? Reasonable? More than reasonable, I say. Clue number 4!
I'll stop there, so you all can catch your breath and call your friends. Just remember this, you heard it here first (or thereabouts).
posted by Ike @ 5:26 PM
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I'm looking forward to Spiderman 4, which, according to the rules of sequel-dom as laid out by such masterpieces as Leprechaun 4 and Hellraiser 4, should be something along the lines of "Spiderman 4: Spiderman...in SPACE!!!"
Just imagine the drama...the action...the slow-motion shots of Toby Maguire's newly-acquired blubber rolling freely in the blessedly gravity-free environs. Tasty.
My prediction: Spiderman 3 will continue in the vain of Spiderman 2 with its wishy washy story line and melodramatic characters. The bad guy will be pretty cool but then wimpified in an attempt to show its human emotion (a la Doc Ock). The 3rd film will be even more celebrated then the last and Sam Raimi will retire after his 3rd film and hand it off to a less capable director.
Raimi wonderings: I've been thinking to myself about how spiderman 2 became what it is and I just don't understand. I wouldn't imagine the director of the Evil Dead series to turn one of the greatest comic book adapations into a sappy melodramatic mess. You would think that there would be even more fun and slapstick thrown into the sequel, more evil villians and more greusomeness all around. Oh well, hopefully in the 3rd spidy he will surprise all of us with a film that harkens back to the Raimi who helped immortalized the phrase "Give me some sugar baby".
i thought you liked spider-man 2?
To clarify only after a second viewing and major thought did I realize what kind of movie spiderman 2 really was, or at least, how much it wasn't anywhere near as good as the original or any of the other good superhero movies.
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