Spider-Man 3 Trailer, A Detailed Look
June 28, 2006 | 22 Comments
Anyone who knows me knows I’m crazy amounts of obsessive about Spider-Man. Anyone who doubts that fact… well… you won’t after you look at the rest of this post. So without further ado, a clip by clip break down of the entire Spider-Man 3 Teaser Trailer!
Opening CGI banner, “How Long…” displayed on a Spider-Man-esque texture.
CGI continues switching quickly to the text: “Can Any Man Fight The Darkness…”. Following the display of the text, in comes an oily black substance. Clearly representing “the darkness” this is also the first clue that the black suit or Venom suit will somehow be involved in this story.
All of the CGI texture is taken over by the black substance, the texture becomes that of a black suit. The text changes to “Before He Finds It In Himself”. The camera begins to pan out.
We now see Spider-Man sitting in the black suit. It is raining. He turns to look straight into the camera. Then jumps from his perch.
From what appears to be Spider-Man’s perspective we look down at his hands. His fingers are clenching and flexing as he stares at them.
As the camera cuts back to third person we see Spidey with his hands on his head. For those familiar with the story of the black suit, notice the bell to the right of the shot. I expect this is significant.
The shot cuts to Harry Osborn in a balcony of some sort. He sneers at the camera.
It cuts back to Spider-Man, he is tearing at his mask. We see the back of his head exposed. The suit does not seem to be flowing as expected… Odd.
The shot cuts to Eddie Brock played by Topher Grace staring upwards intently. He stands on a slate tiled floor. Is this within a church perhaps?
Another cut, Mary Jane Watson is shown for the first time, portrayed by Kirsten Dunst. She is sitting in what would appear to be a formal setting in a black strap dress. The look on her face is not happy.
We switch to Peter lying in bed most likely asleep without his mask, but otherwise in the red and blue costume. As the camera angle changes we can see a black rubbery substance beginning to crawl up his arm.
The scene shifts to a profile shot of Peter Parker. He is not at all happy in this shot. He is wearing a collared shirt with a suit. Did someone die, or is he going to some other formal event? Aunt May does not appear in this trailer, did they kill her off?
The pace changes and we go back to Spider-Man clearly struggling with the suit.
From another angle we see the suit being removed from his back. The setting appears to be the same as all other shots involving the black suit up until this point.
Now we switch back to a shot of Spider-Man with the red and blue suit. From an upside down hanging position we see him spring rapidly towards the ground.
Arguably the sweetest shot from the trailer, we see Sandman in full sand form sweep down and collide with a police officer. If you don’t think this is flippin sweet, there’s no impressing you.
The shot cuts to Peter parker on the street looking shocked at something.
This cuts to the first happy moment with Mary Jane and Peter making out while in a gigantic spider web. Go Pete!
And we’re back to black suit Spidey! He crouches in a window or doorway. We seem to be back in the stone based gothic setting shared by all the black suit scenes to this point.
Our first shot of the new Green Goblin is a quick one. When viewed in slow motion it is clear that something about the glider has changed. Additionally, Goblin is not wearing the same suit as he did in the first Spider-Man movie. Instead there seems to be a loose fitting jacker and either a form fitting mask or just greened skin. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am that Goblin does not in any way look like a Power Ranger!
We see black suit Spidey again, in a subway tunnel. He shoots dual webs at a target.
A-ha! He is shooting towards Flint Marko aka Sandman played by Thomas Hayden Church! He hooks the passing train and propels foot first towards Marko/Sandman.
Here is where we cut to my favorite scene. Peter is dancing with Gwen Stacy! It appears to be some sort of tango or something. As he leads into dipping her, there is the clear appearance of longing in her eyes. I cannot wait to see how this love triangle plays out. The Peter/MJ/Gwen triangle carries years of angst and conflict in the comics, hopefully they do it justice here.
We cut to MJ on the floor? She is in a regular looking whit shirt and looks back over her shoulder. She appears afraid.
It cuts back to some action, Spidey is falling from what appears to be a building, two large chunks of debris travel with him.
A pumpkin bomb hovers over the shoulder of Harry Osborn. As he turns his glance towards it, it suddenly detonates. Is this the causality of him becoming the full fledged Goblin? Is he somehow scarred or damaged by this event?
We then cut to an odd scene. Peter is falling through space, quite high up, obviously in the city. He sees an engagement ring floating in front of him, he is lunging for it. Is this part of some sort of dream sequence? Is it possible he is fighting for MJ with Green Goblin Harry as is implied by the placement of these clips?
We then see un costumed Harry punching aggressively towards the camera. He too is up high with the city scape as a backdrop.
It cuts to an un costumed Peter on the side of a building. The new Goblin is flying towards him on the new glider. The new glider appears to resemble a snow board more closely than any conventional glider from the first Spider-Man or any of the comic gliders. Spidey dodges and the Goblin crashes abruptly into the wall.
Moving back away from the action we see MJ talking with someone. She appears to be making an emotional connection with this male figure. The angle changes and we see it is Harry as MJ reaches out to stroke his hair.
We see Peter briefly looking shocked. In theory this is in reaction to the Harry/MJ interaction we just witnessed. He is dressed in a black suit with a black ties. Ladies in the background are also dressed in black. This clip has me seriously fearing for Aunt May’s life…
We cut back to some action! Black suit Spider-Man is swinging across as a pipe bursts with extreme amounts of water.
The scene changes and we see Peter again. In this shot he looks exceptionally angry. His hair is darker and greasier. My belief is that the black suit is having a negative affect on him. This is also implied by the limited voice over. Shocking here though is that he pulls his coat apart revealing the black suit under his normal clothes. In the conventional Spider-Man continuity, the black suit was able to morph into whatever form or clothing appearance he needed. If the new suit possessed this, he would not be wearing clothes over it… It would appear they have made a significant modification to what the suit is capable of. Let’s hope it’s for the best and not like the stupid organic webbing we’re stuck with…
Finally we cut to black suit Spidey in the most cinematic of all these shots. He is hanging upside down staring into his reflection in a building. Though he is donned in the black suit, his reflection is red and blue! Is this just being done for effect, or is there some significance to this? I can’t wait to know…
There is is, Spider-Man 3. The closing insignia/logo thingy.
We have a release date! You know where I’ll be on May 4th, 2007!
So that’s the rap up of all the visual elements. While all of this is going on, there is an epic sounding Hollywood piece of music playing. This is extremely well edited to match up perfectly with the many cuts. At one point we get some brief voice over.
Eddie Brock: “Parker”
Mary Jane: “What’s happened to you?”
Peter: “I don’t know. I have to stop it”
OK, so doing this rap up made me even more excited about this film… I guess I gotta go read some comics to quench my Spider-Man thirst!
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Spider-Man: Identity Revealed
June 19, 2006 | 6 Comments
As a side effect of needing to choose a side in Marvel’s Civil War event, Spider-Man has been put in a position where he needs to reveal his identity to side with Iron Man’s pro-registration views, or become a criminal with Captain America and the other super heroes who are anti-registration.
Amazing Spider-Man #532 is the big lead in to his monumental decision. They brilliantly cover the topic from many angles as Peter Parker and family explore the many facets of his character. In the end, Peter has made his decision, he’s going to run. Until Aunt May meets him on the way out the door. To her their is clearly no option about the decision he has made, he will reveal himself, she believes more in his character than he does. This is the last bit of reassurance he needs to make the hard decision. It then cuts to him at the press conference with Tony Stark who has already made clear his identity Iron Man connection. The final frame of this issue was exhilarating. In his classic red and blue costume Spider-Man steps to the podium and says: “Hi, good morning. Thank you for coming. I’m standing here today because… well, because… I have an announcement to make.”
I had to wake my wife up to read that one page panel. This was a crazy conclusion that was clear to be one of the most significant events in the history of Spider-Man. This rivals the death of Gwen Stacy or his marriage to Mary Jane. It obliterates the new costumes and recent power changes. This is an event that cannot be taken back and changes the stories for the entire future of Spider-Man.
As a fan, I feel a little mixed about it. In many ways I hate to see some of the old formula modified. In other ways I’m happy to see them do it in a way that can’t be taken back. I can clearly see how this spins all new fresh stories and excitement for Spider-Man.
Civil War #2 hits shelves this week and is being clearly promoted by Marvel as the issue where Peter reveals himself as Spider-Man. Following issues are being unified under the Spider-Man Unmasked event title. The major media has latched onto this story and its actually gotten coverage on CNN, MTV, NY Times, USA Today and more. It’s fun to see printed comics find their way into main stream media occasionally. Usually that honor is reserved for comic based movies…
Immediate repercussions I expect to see will hopefully answer some age old questions. What will J. Jonah Jameson’s reaction be? How Peter’s school sees him when he returns as their teacher. How will newly hired gym teacher and former bully/biggest Spider-Man fan Flash Thompson react? How will this effect the daily lives of Mary Jane and Aunt May? How does this fit into the larger Civil War story arc? Can Peter finally be less poor? Will Spider-Man be less hated by the public?
It’s an exciting time to be a Marvel fan and definitely great to be a Spider-Man fan.
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Iron Spidey - More On The New Outfit
March 22, 2006 | 3 Comments
I just read Amazing Spider-Man #530 and there were new features to talk about in the new costume.
First off, Tony reworked a version 2.0 of this already new suit. Now it can transform appearance to look like any of his old suits, or like no suit at all. Handy for quick costume changes, this feature makes me think a lot of the black (Venom) suit. This transformation also allows him to blend into backgrounds especially effective on dark backgrounds. The final feature is a set three of arm-like appendages that spring out of the back. They refer to these as “waldoes“. These have limited fighting capabilities, but can pick up things as well as look around corners presenting the image to Spider-Man’s eye pieces.
These new features of course build on top of Version 1, which included mesh webbing that will allow gliding for short distances, heat resistant Kevlar micro-fiber that can withstand small-caliber bullets, built in fire, police, and emergency scanner, audio and visual amplification including infrared and ultra-violet, carbon filters in the mouth area to keep out toxins, and a short range GPS microwave communication system.
These changes all come at the beginning of Marvel’s newest, big event: Civil War. Civil War is based on a split among the super heroes from a proposed super hero registration act. Some are opposed, others are for it. This split is supposed to effect all kinds of things, impacting Spider-Man the most. More to come on that…
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Spider-Man 3 - The Black Suit!
February 24, 2006 | 48 Comments
Super Hero Hype had the first image of Spider-Man in his black suit for the next movie due out in 2006.
To me the image looks a lot like a black and white photo rendition of the red suit. I wish there had been something of color in the photo to make it clear this was not just a trick.
For the moment I’m unimpressed. Hopefully seeing it in motion will win me over.
However, Comic Book Movie had the following quote from Sony:
You may think you’re looking at a black and white photo. Look closely, Spider-Man wears a black suit in Spider-Man 3. Tobey Maguire returns in the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Spider-Man 3 coming May 2007.
For those who are not familiar, Spider-Man switched to the black suit in the standard continuity after Secret Wars. This was short lived, leading to one of the most successful Marvel villains of all time, Venom. I assume this introduction of the black suit sets up Spider-Man 4 to be centered around Venom as the primary villain.
It’s highly entertaining that first images of the black costume premiering in Spider-Man 3 comes the same month as the printed comic reveals a new costume.
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Spider-Man: The Other - New Powers Revealed
February 14, 2006 | 9 Comments
In the first Spider-Man crossover since the dreadful clone era stuff of the late ’90s, came January’s conclusion of Spider-Man: The Other.
This 12-part series saw the death and rebirth of Peter Parker. Apparently this followed under some previously unknown ability for spiders to shed their skin once in a lifetime to be reborn anew. Initially the series starts with Peter coming to terms with certain death from an incurable illness. He visits all his major contacts in the Marvel Universe, finally coming up short.
After coming to terms with his assured demise, he finds himself in an amazing fight with Morlun. This ends with Spider-Man in critical condition, at which point Morlun leaves him to die, but not before ripping out his left eye and eating it.
Spider-Man is rushed to the hospital, but his injuries are too severe. A few altercations follow, but I’ll omit the details here… In short, he dies. The death is very well played out. The emotions Mary Jane, Aunt May, and the Avengers as a whole play out is touching. However, this is all happening in like issues 7 & 8 of a known 12-part series with the tag-line “Evolve or Die”. So, with that in mind I’m not sure how they think readers can actually feel as though we’ve lost Peter…
Anyway, he is reborn. All injuries are healed. He’s back to normal, the Peter we know and love. Though there is some lingering oddness, back-story, and twists sure to be played out over the next few years in the Spider-Man series.
The main piece that is sure have long lasting effects in the Spider-Man books, is the unlocking of latent new powers! Spider-Man’s set of powers have more or less gone untouched since his origin in 1962. Certainly nothing as drastic as these changes have occurred.
These are the powers he has discovered so far:
- See in the dark
- Stickiness all over (like he previously had only on his hands)
- “Hear” along his web
- Spikes in his wrists
Apparently in the next issue of Amazing Spider-Man we can expect a new suit revelation, though I’m certain it will not last. For more on the new costume from an article in Newsarama that quotes J. Michael Straczynski:
Between the physical changes to Peter that follow the aftermath of The Other, he gets a second power upgrade courtesy of the ‘Iron Spider’ suit from Stark. What he will discover is that with great power comes not just responsibility but one heck of a price tag. Peter will have to decide if he can pay that price in loyalty to Tony, when the loyalty may cost him things he holds dearest. He will find himself caught in the middle of the Civil War, seeing all sides of the argument, but will be eventually forced to make a decision that will change both his life and the whole Marvel Universes.
One thing is for sure, it’s an exciting time to be a Spider-Man fan!
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A New Spider-Man Costume
January 16, 2006 | 13 Comments
Marvel is showing a new Spider-Man costume on their site. This red and yellow suit looks far more like the Iron Man colors than the more common red and blue or even black that Peter has donned in the past.
Apparently coming out of the major events of The Other (not yet concluded), Spider-Man will be gaining new powers and Tony Stark (Iron Man) has designed him a new costume. Peter has been getting a lot of assistance from Stark over the last few months. His house was destroyed and May and Mary Jane are all living in the Avengers tower with Peter. He’s always been very independent, but this growing reliance on Stark is a major departure for him.
Some interesting tidbits from the Marvel article:
Peter recieves this new costume to help him adjust to his newest developments, as well as giving him some added muscle! [...]
Every “gift” has its cost, and this new look for Spidey will signal the beginnings of change, especially as it comes on the eve of the upcoming Civil War. [...] how much in debt is Peter’s loyalty to Tony Stark going to cost him in the long run?
I guess I’ll know more in February when Amazing Spider-Man #529 arrives and this new costume is revealed in it’s entirety. Between new powers which will be revealed this week and the new costume next month, I’m salivating for my comics to arrive. I partially hope Peter says no to this, or requests a redesign or something. Don’t get me wrong, I think it looks cool, but yellow?!?
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