Superhero Hype introduces this striking new photo from Spider-Man 3, one that raises a lot of questions. According to the website, it’s not a black-and-white photo; rather, it depicts a charcoal-colored Spidey costume. (There’s an even bigger version of the image at MovieCityNews.)
As fans of the Spidey comics know, Spider-Man wore a black suit like this for a few years in the mid-1980s, only to learn that the costume was an alien parasite. When Peter Parker ditched it, the alien outfit found a new host, the villain Venom. Spider-Man director Sam Raimi has reportedly said that he dislikes the Venom character and would not include him in the 2007 sequel, but rumors that Topher Grace’s character is, in fact, Venom have been dropped by Variety and by costar Kirsten Dunst. (Distributor Sony has kept mum regarding Grace’s role.)
So what does the picture tell us? Is that Tobey Maguire in the shot, or Grace? Was Raimi planting a red herring? And is black the new red-and-blue? What say you, PopWatchers?
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Have you seen Topher Grace? Skinny kid. Unless he’s wearing a bodysuit, that’s Tobey, he’s a little thicker.
I bet that’s a plant and that it’s Venom. Maybe they’re going to be doing single posters of characters, like X3. That would be awesome.
whoever it is, it’s awesome!
If they were going to release a picture that showcased a new black and white suit, why didn’t they constrast it with color in the background? It just looks like a grayscale poster.
Based on the poster, it loks like Spidey will be driving the Dale Earnhardt Chevy.
The black suit had no web designs, it was more like a sleek rubber suit with the white spider and the eyes are wrong. This poster looks tricky. Its not the true black suit. Just looks like the old suit in grayscale. Raimi is too much into detail to have this flaw. Cool poster though.
Stryking resemblence to the black suit
cool poster!! Right up there in line with the batman begins artwork…lets remember that tobey was a shrimp and people were suprised to see him bulked up for the first spidey movie…cant wait for this one!
P.S. WILL WE EVER SEE KINGPIN IN ONE OF THESE MOVIES?
Is Spider-Man wearing black?
It appears that notable movie posters are a new topic for my blog. Here is a newly-released poster from Spider-Man 3, which is due to open in 433 days: 4 May 2007. The question is, is this a black and…
I think it is just a dark picture of the regular costume. Maybe to portray a darker movie. As for the rumor that it is the Venom symbiote, I seriously doubt it. It looks nothing like the Venom suit, the suit was all black with a huge white Spider on his chest and back with completely different, more wild eyes. So I truly doubt that it is Tobey in the Venom suit.
THAT SUIT IS AWESOME
I always disliked the Venom sublplot, but always thought that black costume was a tough mofo.
Can this mean a “Secret Wars” movie is not so far off? Doobie Doo!
Sorry Dan no Kingpin in the Spidey movies. When the Daredevil movie was made it was made by another studio and the Kingpin character was part of that liscence. That is the same reason why the reporter in Daredevil doesn’t work for the Daily Bugle, since that is part of the Spider-Man Liscence.
Anyone else notice that in the poster, Spider-Man’s head is bowed down concealing his mouth? What does the lower half of his face look like? Hmmm?
I can’t wait to see Venom, but I am more concerned with exactly how they are going to incorporate the plot – I mean even if you go with the acceptable cartoon version (Jameson the astronaut brings the symbiote costume back from a space flight) of it’s acquisition,it seems like a lot to fit in one movie – Spidey acquires suit, lives with suit, ditches suit, suit finds Brock, Brock becomes Venom. I suppose Topher could be playing Brock, and Spidey could use the suit’s enhanced powers to fight off both Sandman and the return of the Green Goblin (Harry Osborn) before ditching it and Brock finds it at the end of the movie to prepare for Venom’s introduction proper in Spidey 4. And as far as Raimi’s tweaking of details, we know he’s willing if it makes sense (no web cartridges, Peter has grown spinnerets – which of course makes the symbiote’s ability to generate unlimited webbing moot already). The symbiote’s melding with Pete’s mind and all may just generate itself the way Pete’s always known his costume to be – except it’s black now. Oh well, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see…
It’s Venom. It’s gotta be. Very cool picture!
Venom should’ve been left for when the series finally goes downhill and the movies are made for “straight to video” fare.
There are so many other great classic-villians they could’ve gone with and Raimi succumbed to the fan boys.
Sad.
Venom or no Venom, why not give Spider-Man a black costume? Think about it: wouldn’t that be way more steathly than bright red and blue? Just look at how they changed the costumes in the X-Men movie to make them more like actual uniforms and less like cheesy leotards (yellow and blue spandex, anyone?). Not that, you know, the X-Men movies have been nearly as good as the Spider-Man movies.
Anyone notice how Spidey has his head bent down, as if in mourning ala the color black as well. Since Gwen Stacy is in Spidey-3, and in the comics she dies, maybe Spidey dons black to mourn his first true love dying in this film as well.
Check out this sony link. Looks like it is a black suit and not just a black and white photo.
http://spiderman.sonypictures.com/
I’m still trying to figure out why they hired a blonde to play Peter Parker’s redhaired girlfriend, and a redhead to play a possible blond love interest!
being 35 years old, i guess i’d be considered an old-school Spider-Man fan. that may explain why i don’t want Venom or the black suit in the third film, and last with Raimi/McGuire/Dunst. whatever happened to
Lizard? they had Dr. Connors makes cameos for nothing?
i was naively hoping for the Hobgoblin storyline, which was probably the best i ever read…
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f264/bvanhaun/spiderman3eye2.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f264/bvanhaun/spiderman3eye1.jpg
I stole these links from imdb.com. Take a closer look, I can see Venom or Hobgoblin in the middle. My real theory is that the picture is of Topher Grace as Venom, though, since the mouth is covered by the arm.
That is a picture of Spider-Man, not Venom. Venom’s suit is much more different than the suit in this picture, which looks just like Spider-Man’s suit but in black. And it is also absurd to say its Venom because you “can’t see his mouth”. The black Spidey will lead to Venom though, probably at the end of this movie, setting him up for Spider-Man 4. And I think it will be a bit darker movie. I assume that both Harry and Mary Jane will die as both James Franco and Kirsten Dunst have said this is their last movie.
I’m confused…I thought it had been confirmed that Topher Grace was in fact going to play Venom and Thomas Haden Church was going to play Sandman. I remember reading it on this site, in fact. Can somebody explain?
Carrie:
Sorry, but I have no idea what you’re seeing in the eyes- could you maybe point it out (photoshop in an outline or something)?
Whatever happened to the build-up to The Lizard in Spider-Man 1 and 2…???
Perhaps Sam Raimi should cast Phillip Seymour Hoffman as “The Kitchen Sink.”
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i thik the suit is HELLA KOOL!
but it cant be Venom…
too predictable if u ask me…
You guys seriously think that’s Venom??? C’mon…it’s not the right suit. It’s not even a BLACK suit. It’s just a dark picture. IF they do the black suit/Venom story, they REALLY need to do it over 2 films (introduce the black suit-which that is NOT-at the end of this one, have part 4 be the Venom story). Nothing else would do such a complex story justice.
I think the poster is great. It’s obviously doing what its supposed to do and that is intrigue, engage and provoke. Can’t wait for the movie. Didn’t like the first one, thought the second one was fire and am eating up all the buzz on this one already!