Quote Originally Posted by Woochifer
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Good synopsis of the "alien costume" storyline (and why Spidey wore a black costume in the comics for a few years back in the 80s)! I also doubt that if they go with the black costume in Spidey 3, they will follow the "alien costume" storyline from the comics that culiminated with the emergence of the Venom character. It just seems like it would be overly convoluted (and probably very boring) with half the movie focused on just the costume.

But, then again, the black alien costume is part of the origin story for Venom, and if the Spidey 3 includes Venom (rumors are out there), then I guess a storyline that includes the black costume will be needed. I'm not sure though how well that storyline (which took years to play out in the comics) can be compressed into a two-hour movie that already has Sandman on board as a villian, and the looming re-emergence of the Green Goblin with Harry Osborne.

Looking over at the cast listing from Spidey 3, it also looks like the Gwen Stacy character will get her introduction in this movie. This would obviously create a potential love-triangle story, since in the comics, Stacy was Peter Parker's girlfriend well before he started dating MJ. But, like all movie-comic book adaptations, this also messes with the continuity big time because in the comics, Gwen Stacy was killed by the original Green Goblin. And in the movie timeline, we know that the Goblin is already dead and Parker has now started dating MJ.

Keeping my fingers crossed that the Spidey series doesn't buckle under the weight of throwing one too many ingredients into the stew like the Batman series did!
well they are definitely setting up for the series to keep on going. keeping doc conners in the storyline now (the lizard) and if they bring back jjj's son from the moon with the moonrock, that's another villain already with groundwork laid down (the wolfman) and topher grace is supposed to be playing Eddie brock (although not 'officially' confirmed). i hope they do it right and think of this as a series with self contained titles. so that they've built in harry osborne as a future villain of spidey in the past two movies, so i hope they build in some more background of future villains NOW without having them turn into the villain. hopefully they'll do that with topher as eddie brock. give him the backstory now and show how he may come to hate peter parker and end it with him being all menacing and maybe with his own black spidey costume. the other thing they might do (which i hope they dont but treat it as a separate storyline) is the Kraven's Last Hunt story inserting eddie brock into the kraven role to get him into the 'venom' costume since that took place when spidey was still wearing black too. but... who knows, they defn have plenty of material to work with!! just need to pare it down to a good story which they've done so far! fingers crossed here too!

the other issue facing spidey 3 apart from story and villains etc, is the spfx. i thought the spfx in 2 was a vast improvement over 1, but 3 has a whole new team attached to it. the new guy also worked on the other 2, but now is the head man. hopefully wont have any dropoff in quality there.