So what can we expect for Spider-Man 3? Certainly another great story if the tantalising hints that Raimi reveals are anything to go by.
Peter Parker is about to face some of his toughest challenges yet as praise for Spider-Man’s courageous exploits goes to his head and even his relationship Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is under threat.
The lines between good and bad are blurred and Peter Parker discovers that he too, has a dark side to his nature. “And there are two great new villains, Sandman and Venom, who provide all sorts of challenges and excitement,”
says Raimi.
At the end of Spider-Man 2 life was good for Peter Parker. He had defeated the villainous Doctor Octopus and had won the love of the girl he adores, Mary Jane. What’s more is Mary Jane had learned the secret and had accepted that Parker was Spider-Man.
The one cloud on this clear blue horizon is his troubled relationship with his long time friend, Harry Osborn (James Franco) who also knows that Parker is Spider-Man and believes that he killed his father, Norman Osborn aka The Green Goblin, played by Willem Dafoe in the first movie.
“I would say that the theme of the new film is forgiveness,” says Raimi. “It’s a lesson that Peter Parker has to learn in this third instalment of these Spider-Man films. He’s learned a great deal about responsibility and he’s learned about friendship and now he’s got to learn to quell his pride and listen to others.
“And through listening maybe a certain amount of forgiveness can be learned, because really he’s a creature of vengeance.”
When Parker learns new details about the murder of his Uncle Ben he sets off on the trail of the man he believes is the killer, escaped convict Flint Marco (Thomas Haden Church) who has the ability to transform himself into the awesomely destructive Sandman.
“He has been an avenger ever since he lost his Uncle Ben to the hand of a murderer,” says Raimi. “And he’s been paying down the debt of guilt that he feels with that vengeance.
“Each act of bringing these other criminals to justice is pretty much something he should have done originally but never did. But that’s only so high a place to rise to.
“When the picture opens he sees himself as the hero and he sees these
others as sinners and he’s going to bring them to justice. A greater lesson for him to learn would be that he’s not completely without sin himself and that these criminals he quickly labels as the ‘bad guys’ are not completely evil
human beings.
“And through that understanding of collective humanity – that he isn’t just
‘the good guy’ and they aren’t entirely ‘the bad guys’ – comes the ability to recognise that some crimes are worth forgiving and that some people are worthy of forgiveness.”
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