New Interview With Avi Arad on SM3 and SM4.

[NewYorkSpider]

http://movies.ign.com/articles/770/770167p1.html

This has been an exciting day.

 

[The Joker]

He says the movie is over two hours long. Which probably means something like 2 hours and 10-15 minutes. If it was anywhere close to 2 and a half or three hours, he'd say so, IMO.

Very interesting interview. He says Harry's Goblin will be named, and he mentioned the controversy over the organic webbing, when asked why they didn't use the original symbiote suit design.

 

[Tempest19]

"Just call him Harry."

 

[dr venture]

Interesting stuff

 

[NewYorkSpider]

"Just call him Harry."

Yeah he said just call him Harry. But then says he will be named later on. I thought that he would me called New Goblin. At least thats what i heard.

 

[kaijunexus]

Unfortunately, it would seem that Tobey isn't in agreement...

http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=5290

 

[Gamma Burst]

Very nice interview,specially:

Q: Do you see this as a fitting conclusion to the franchise?

Arad: No, never conclusions. This story has been going on a long time and it will continue going. There's some issues that will come not to an end but to a conclusion, but Peter Parker's story will continue forward. He's still young. The love story will always be the ruling thing in his life. It's always about the girl so, no, it's just number three.

 

[DACrowe]

Interesting, Maguire talks about art and story, Arad talks about cha-ching. To me, that just means the latter is being on honest but the former has some class.

 

[Advanced Dark]

Of course Spider-Man 3 isn't the last. Neither is part 4, 5, or 6. It'll keep going till it doens't make money or they feel they need to restart it again. I could see the whole franchise restarting in 20 years like Batman and Superman with new film tech we can't even imagine yet. If Tobey walks the franchise will survive just fine. If Raimi walks he leaves having done a great job...but there are other directors that will come around that are even better. Hopefully Spidey will snag a director not only just as awesome but that will make Spider-Man different...make it his own with his own look and feel.

 

[Advanced Dark]

Interesting, Maguire talks about art and story, Arad talks about cha-ching. To me, that just means the latter is being on honest but the former has some class.

No that is because Tobey is an "artist" and "actor" and Avi is a "producer". Cha Ching. Mkay.

 

[Gamma Burst]

I do agree with you about the franchise,AD.The potential is virtually limitless.

 

[Advanced Dark]

Alot of people are closed minded like the franchise should end because they only like Tobey or Raimi but they'll change there minds real fast when Spiderman 4 or 5 or whenever everyone is changed occurs.

 

[chaseter]

I really don't want Raimi to leave...but I would rather have more Spider-Man films than none.

 

[Advanced Dark]

Raimi was awesome but if he leaves we got 3 awesome films from him. A new director and actor WOULD freshen things up and give us a different perspective. I would not rule James Cameron off a future Spidey film. After Alita and Avatar who knows. Good timing huh? Around 2010/2011.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Raimi was awesome but if he leaves we got 3 awesome films from him. A new director and actor WOULD freshen things up and give us a different perspective. I would not rule James Cameron off a future Spidey film. After Alita and Avatar who knows. Good timing huh? Around 2010/2011.

James Cameron would be OK. It would be a heartbreaker if Sam didn't come back. But like you said, we got 3 great films from him. He deserves a standing ovation for that.

 

[GoldGoblin]

I'm starting to think that Harry will be called some type of Goblin,and not "New Goblin".

 

[YJ1]

James Cameron is now new box office cancer. There are a lot of Christians that won't soon forget his cheap shot documentary attacking the Christian faith that he tried to pawn off this week. Keep Cameron FAR away from anything Marvel.

Raimi has done a phenomenal job and I'd be shocked if he doesn't return for S4. I also think that Tobey is probably just lining up a fatter pay check. Give him $25 to $30 million and he'd probably return. Either way, it looks like S3 is setting the bar high for any sequel or even any future superhero movie to come. After watching that preview, how do you top this one?

 

[Mr Jide]

Its funny, up until about a year ago, anybody who suggested cameron having anything to do with a spidey movie would get blasted due to that horrendous script he made. Now, people want him as soon as Raimi leaves? This isn't the first I'm hearing this on these boards. Wow, just...wow. Cameron is a moron. That Jesus fiasco should have smited his career, yet I bet, he's being treated more kindly than Gibson Anyway, no cameron, I dont want him anywhere near spider-man or marvel for that matter.

I wouldn't mind speailberg (even though he may not do it) but I know theres rumours about him involved with a CA movie and seeing as Steven was said to be done with Nazis and Nazis are essential to a CA movie, I say he should just jump ship if he's even on it and hop on to the spidey movies.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

I'd like to see Michael Bay direct a Spider-Man movie.

 

[The Caped Knight]

Q: What new challenges are there for you on this one?

Avi Arad:I would say opportunities. I think when you have the same team, same cast, same directors, same producers, actually the same writer, it gives you an opportunity to dig deeper, everybody to dig deeper. The story, the content, the CGI. We have this thing at the end of every movie where we see them and we think, "What can we do better?" From what you can see, you are getting that. The opportunities are just to make [it] more complex. Beating up Peter Parker harder. Seeing if he can take it. If he is indeed still a hero. And this movie's really testing every bone, every emotion, every intellectual thing in his head. So I really think we have something that surpassed [Spider-Man 1 and 2]. Some of us think this is the biggest of them all.


Sounds like Peter will be fighting the battle of his life in this movie . Awesome t:

Q: The trailer reveals that Sandman is the real killer of Uncle Ben. How does that affect or change Peter's motivation for being Spider-Man, since it was his guilt over not stopping his uncle's killer that made him become Spider-Man? He's kind of purged of that then.

Arad: I think if you look at movie 1 and 2, the thing that defines Peter's life is the death of Uncle Ben and his own reaction to powers as a kid. He didn't think about stopping the robber. He was thinking about some girl and getting a car, which is normal and what makes Peter Parker so accessible and so lovable. Stan [Lee] wrote a kid who's like all kids. We start his life with a mistake that defined the rest of his life. If you remember movie one, he tried to stop the man who fell to his death, which was another tough moment in his life. Realizing that once you take the law into your own hands, there's always consequences to things you do. Sandman is a fascinating villain for us and Sam [Raimi] made him far more fascinating. Sandman [in the comics] was pretty limited. It was an interesting effect [but] he was a goon. We pride ourselves on connecting our villains to our heroes. We find a way to do it. In this story -- again without going too far into it because everything I say will end up somewhere -- we gave Sandman a real good story. Made him an interesting villain. Like all our villains are victims of circumstance in some ways. This movie has a theme in a sense, which is about Peter dealing with the dark side. And the dark side comes out of issues. And Sandman is one of the issues. He was one who really did it. The other guy was an accomplice. "If I didn't chase him maybe things would have been different." It's a tough guilt trip. This is when one examines one's life to a great extent. That's why, on the other hand, when you look at something like Sandman you say, "What an opportunity for [the special effects team] to create a whole new algorithm." ... Sand is a brand new effect that SPI [Sony Pictures Imageworks] -- we're very fortunate that Sony and SPI is one company. And we can really ask of them to go the extra distance and designing Sandman is a very complicated [process]. Literally, we developed an algorithm of a grain of sand. Then we have to learn how to manipulate it. So we knew that we had something that the world had never seen before. But if you now insert a character and a great story into it then it's a win-win situation.

This sounds very intresting , I'm quite curious to see how this will play out .

Q: Do you see this as a fitting conclusion to the franchise?

Arad: No, never conclusions. This story has been going on a long time and it will continue going. There's some issues that will come not to an end but to a conclusion, but Peter Parker's story will continue forward. He's still young. The love story will always be the ruling thing in his life. It's always about the girl so, no, it's just number three.

I just hope Raimi, Tobey & Kristen return (along with the remaining supporting cast members) .

Q: Can you put into context the footage we've just seen? Are you allowed to say?

Arad: That's exactly the kind of thing I will not get into because a lot of ambitious people will try and reconstruct the story. I think this movie is the most complex on one hand and probably the most amazing love story yet. A lot of adversaries. All [of them] have agendas that connect them to Peter in a big way and Mary Jane. So what you see gives you the issues of the movie. Where they are and what part of the movie we are [watching] -- out of context it would be [unfair to say].

Sounds fascinating

Q: How long do you anticipate the movie being?

Arad: Over two hours.

SWEET

Q: Variety reported a few weeks ago that Sony was in talks with David Koepp about writing Spider-Man 4. Can you say how far along those talks are? Is he definitely going to be writing it?

Arad: I think it would be great if he does, but it would be too early to make any announcements.

Please I really want the Lizard as The Villian in Spidey 4 .

Q: Will we see more of Spider-Man as a jokester in this movie?

Arad: There will be a lot of these quips throughout the movie. One of the scenes that blew me away at how funny Tobey can be and this movie, unlike the others until now except for one scene in the previous movie, has physical comedy. I think Tobey is ready for the Improv. He's really a funny guy. The humor has to come out of the emotional situation, out of being cornered into a place and that's where you're going to get it. It's really easy to do quips and to write them if you don't have them in the right place, but if you have the whole scene, a complex scene, a line like that is a lot, OK? You'll see other scenes -- I cannot give it away -- but all throughout the movie. You know, Sam's a real funny guy. He doesn't look it, but he is a funny guy and you'll see scenes where, because it's such a high drama and such a great love story, you need every so often to just breathe deep. And you'll see right from the start of the movie that the humor is sophisticated. It's only Peter Parker. Only an uber-geek like him could say certain things and you'll see how people around him will just shake their head. And we have more of this in this movie, which is great.

Gald to hear spidey be doing more Wisecracks .

Q: We saw Peter fighting with Harry. But do we call him Green Goblin? Hobgoblin? What exactly do we call him?

Arad: Call him Harry.

Q: So he doesn't really have a name or take on a name?

Arad: Just call him Harry. He will be named later, but I will leave it alone for now.


Interseting very Interesting

Q: How come you didn't use the black Spidey suit design from the comics, but instead used the same design with the webbing as the red-and-blue suit? Why not use the version from the comics?

Arad: Well, we tried really hard to elevate the stories, elevate the costumes. We did things that were different in the books. I remember everybody was up in arms over organic webs. ... So the idea is to take our characters and do things to them. If the red suit became the black suit, we still want to see the spider. The whole idea behind it is like "Spidey No More." We just cannot wait for him to don the suit again. So when we go into this metaphor the whole idea is to know Peter is still inside. There are parts of Peter now that are troubled and therefore it's all about metaphors. All these comics. But you want to make the connection. We want to make sure that it's clear, "Yeah, it is the same guy. He's going through something. And, God willing, everything's going to come back." As we say, the saga continues.

It makes prefect sense .

 

[blind_fury]

It makes prefect sense .

No it doesn't make perfect sense. It's crappy excuse for lazy filmmaking.

Like we need raised webbing on the black costume to recoginze that it's still Spider-man we're dealing with.

Repalce the raised webbing with a huge white spider on Spidey's chest and back and we'll know it's still Spider-man. It would be far more compelling than using the same Spider-man costume with only a simple color change.

 

[blind_fury]

LOL! People are bashing James Cameron when he's directored several films better than anything Sam Raimi has ever accomplished.

Too funny!

 

[Visionary]

And he found Jesus' bones, so the story goes.

 

[Mr Jide]

LOL! People are bashing James Cameron when he's directored several films better than anything Sam Raimi has ever accomplished.

Too funny!

Maybe but he wrote the spider-man script which is worse than anything Raimi has done

 

[BxB402]

He says the movie is over two hours long. Which probably means something like 2 hours and 10-15 minutes. If it was anywhere close to 2 and a half or three hours, he'd say so, IMO.

Very interesting interview. He says Harry's Goblin will be named, and he mentioned the controversy over the organic webbing, when asked why they didn't use the original symbiote suit design.

I still say, as i previously(a while ago) thought, that Harry's sanity will decrease as the movie goes and eventually becoem a full fleged goblin. Avi saying he will be "named" alludes to it ending up as more than just a personal between freinds quarrel. Also, judging from the 7 min footage, it's obvious harry has taken the goblin formula, no normal person can pull a big arse peice of brick wall off like that. Also going back to the scenes we have seen where he gets a pumpkin bomb to the face, i think it's pretty safe to assume with hsi enhanced strength and whatnot he will be horribly scarred or something to that effect. I have doubts moreso after this interview and footage that he dies. Being that in the footage he got pretty messed up by the clothline and ensuing fall, this part is obviously pre-black spidey, it's safe to assume if he can survive that beating, a little explosion in the face wouldn't be fatal. Then again maybe the "naming" will just be the product of being spotted fighting and one of JJ's stories, such as was teh naming of Green Goblin in the first one.

IMO Harry will become a fully insane enemy, horribly scarred and don a more goblin-esque costume eventually. At least we can all hope, killing him off = suck