Where to watch Spider-Man 3 (2007)
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A celebrated superhero faces several dangerous threats, including a shape-shifting criminal and a rival who becomes linked to a powerful alien organism. As the hero’s abilities and behavior change, he must also navigate strained friendships, romantic complications, and difficult choices about revenge and forgiveness.
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Tobey Maguire, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rosemary Harris, J.K. Simmons, James Cromwell, Dylan Baker, Theresa Russell, Bill Nunn
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Trivia & production notes
- Sam Raimi and his brother Ivan wrote the treatment for Spider-Man 3 over two months, establishing a core theme about Peter discovering he is not a sinless hero and finding humanity in criminals.
- The screenwriters reimagined Sandman as Uncle Ben's killer in the film, departing from the comics where he is just a petty criminal, to deepen Peter's guilt and challenge his simple understanding of Ben's death.
- Producer Avi Arad pushed director Sam Raimi to include Venom despite Raimi's previous criticism of the character's lack of humanity, arguing the earlier films had focused too much on Raimi's preferred villains rather than fan favorites.
- The Vulture appeared in an early script as an accomplice of Sandman with Ben Kingsley being considered for the role before the character was removed.
- Screenwriter Alvin Sargent considered splitting the script into two films due to its complexity with so many characters, but abandoned the idea when he could not create a successful intermediate climax.
- Principal photography began on January 16, 2006 in Culver City, California, with Cleveland offering free production space at its Convention Center to film the armored car fight scene.
- Tobey Maguire initially refused to dance in the jazz club scene until choreographer Marguerite Derricks showed him some Fred Astaire dance moves.
- Cinematographer Bill Pope faced the challenge of filming night scenes with three black-costumed characters—Venom, the New Goblin, and the symbiote-possessed Spider-Man—making visibility difficult.
- John Dykstra, who won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects on Spider-Man 2, declined to return as visual effects supervisor, with Scott Stokdyk taking over to lead two hundred programmers at Sony Pictures Imageworks.
- To create realistic sand effects for Sandman scenes, the filmmakers tested twelve different types of sand by splashing, launching, and pouring it, then recreated the movement digitally, while using ground-up corn-cobs instead of sand when burying actors for safety.
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