Interviews
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Hollywood.com's Scott Huver sits down for an exclusive one-on-one with the mastermind of Marvel Comics, Stan Lee.
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As she takes on her third film playing Mary Jane Watson, the most famous superhero girlfriend since Lois Lane, Kirsten Dunst talks all about Spider-Man 3, including working yet not working with Thomas Hayden Church, twisting with James Franco and how hard it is to watch Tobey Maguire tango without giggling.
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'Spider Man 3' could have the webbed one facing his biggest challenge yet – his best friend. The third installment picks up with Harry Osborn (James Franco), now armed with the powers of the Green Goblin, going after his former friend Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), whom he believes killed his father. Between the web-slinging and pumpkin bombs, someone’s sure to get caught in the middle … someone like Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst).
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The Spider-Man films may be partially funded by wig and hair dye manufacturers. They have Kirsten Dunst playing redhead Mary Jane Watson and Bryce Dallas Howard as platinum blonde bombshell Gwen Stacy. In Spider-Man 3, the classic – and legendarily tragic – comic book character appears, in a different form. No longer Peter Parker's first love (that's MJ in the movies), Gwen Stacy is a college classmate who increasing closeness to Peter stokes MJ’s jealousy.
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After delivering an Oscar-nominated performance as a wine-sampling cad that went down as smoothly as a California cabernet in the acclaimed film Sideways, Thomas Haden Church’s big screen follow-up role is decidedly – and literally – more abrasive, as the Sandman, the tortured ex con transformed into a living sandblaster in Spider-Man 3. And he revealed all about the becoming the blockbuster’s bad guy before he slipped through Hollywood.com’s fingers.
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For all of the big name actors who’ve appeared comic book superhero movies of the last few years, only a brave few cop to being full-on old school geeks for the characters they play. Hold on, Nicolas Cage – we’re talking about Topher Grace, who tells Hollywood.com about his longtime love of Spider-Man 3’s fang-faced villain Venom, and he has the autographed Todd McFarlane comic book to prove it.
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Maybe they’re both just too used to being the most powerful force in the room, but there’s something about A-list film directors and iconic superheroes that just keeps them from sticking together too long. Richard Donner soared away from Superman halfway through the Man of Steel’s second sequel, Tim Burton stuck out only two Batman installments before disappearing into the shadows, Bryan Singer severed his ties to the X-Men after two films with the razor sharp finality of a slash from Wolverine’s claws and Ang Lee only got to Hulk out once.
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There are a lot of new things going on in Tobey Maguire’s life: he’s a new father, he’s about to be a new husband, and even his most famous movie role – Peter Parker, a.k.a. The Amazing Spider-Man – has a brand new attitude for Spider-Man 3: the good-hearted, down-on-his-luck superhero had finally been embraced by an adoring public and gotten his love together with Mary Jane Watson, but with a little push from an mysterious alien costume Peter’s about to exploring his edgier aspects.
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Not only had Spider-Man 3 director Sam Raimi made the trip to the San Diego Comic-Con to tease the most anticipated film of 2007, he also cajoled a nearly full complement of its all-star cast—including Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Thomas Hayden Church, Topher Grace and Bryce Dallas Howard—to join him onstage to surprise the thousands of eager and overwhelmed comic book fans who’d assembled hoping for any shred of new information from the forthcoming film, he also unveiled the first full-on look at the villain at the heart of the movie, the vicious, fang-faced symbiote Venom, a fan favorite since he was created by superstar artist Todd McFarlane in the early 1990s.
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Hollywood.com continues its sneak peek into next summer’s highly anticipated Spider-Man 3 with the first official interview with three of the film franchise’s newest stars: Thomas Haden Church as the abrasive villain the Sandman, Topher Grace as the evil-oozing Venom and Bryce Dallas Howard as the beautiful—and possibly doomed—Gwen Stacy.