[IMG:L]Spider-Man is back…in black.
No, Peter Parker hasn’t raided Johnny Cash’s closet, but in the intensely anticipated sequel Spider-Man 3, but as you’ve probably heard by now everyone’s favorite web-slinger ditches his classic red-and-blue superhero suit for an edgier ebony ensemble to match his new attitude.
The third installment is the most successful comic book franchise in history is all about a superhero discovering the darkness inside, and to shed a little light on Spidey’s most extreme adventure Hollywood.com turned to the director of the film and his all-star cast.
[IMG:L]Q&A with Sam Raimi
“Working on those sequences with Tobey Maguire and the dark Spider-Man, that was a difficult thing for me. Actually it wasn’t fun for me because I didn’t like those sequences. I don’t like when I’m watching Spider-Man go bad. It was unpleasant and I kept worrying, ‘Gee, do we really have to do this to show how rage-full and vengeful he is? Do we really have to show how pride can destroy you?’”
[IMG:L]Q&A with Tobey Maguire
“I really felt like in this movie it was definitely the continuing story of Peter Parker and the other characters, but we were also exploring new territory for the character. So it was exciting for me to venture into some different areas…It’s a new side to Peter Parker and something that I think is kind of unexpected to see.”
[IMG:L]Q&A with Kirsten Dunst
“We are all passionate for this franchise. The producers, the heads of Sony, all of us want to make a great movie. Obviously it’s about box office for the studio at the end of the day somewhere but we don’t want to produce just to produce. We really care for these characters – these people are so important to us.”
[IMG:L]Q&A with Thomas Haden Church
“It was very important that we know who the man was and what his propulsion through the movie was sustained by. Sandman, like Frankenstein, is just the darker monstrosity and malevolence that he can’t control, not unlike the black suit that Spider-Man can’t control.”
[IMG:L]Q&A with Topher Grace
“I felt that when they offered me the role I had this sort of inside track and I had to kind of sit on my hands and not say yes too quickly because I hadn’t negotiated my deal yet. I wanted to say ‘I’ll pay you to do it.’”
[IMG:L]Q&A with James Franco
“Harry is almost a parallel to Peter. I lose a father, he loses a father figure his uncle, and then in this third one he is avenging his uncle’s death and I am doing the same avenging my father’s death.”
[IMG:L]Q&A with Bryce Dallas Howard
“I dyed my hair blonde because it was so foreign to me, I needed to kind of feel comfortable within it and know what it was like to walk around as a blonde and what people’s reactions were like and how I might alter and it really did change things quite a bit. It was interesting. There’s an inherent sexuality, I think, to being blonde.”
