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Spider-Man 3
Release Date	May 4, 2007
Genre	Sci Fi Fantasy
Director	Sam Raimi
Screenwriter	Sam Raimi Ivan Raimi
Stars	Tobey Maguire Kirsten Dunst James Franco Thomas Haden Church Topher Grace Bryce Dallas Howard Rosemary Harris J. K. Simmons
Studio	Marvel Enterprises Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Entertainment

Spider-Man 3 is the third movie in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man series. The film is directed by Sam Raimi and written by Raimi and brother Ivan. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and James Franco reprise their roles with Franco taking on the identity of the Green Goblin. Additional villains include Thomas Haden Church as Sandman and Topher Grace as Eddie Brock. Also joining the cast is Bryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacy.

Plot

Things are looking good for Peter Parker and his love, Mary Jane Watson. Peter's been selling pictures to the Daily Bugle for years, he's doing great in his science class, and he's getting up the nerve to ask MJ to marry him. Mary Jane is third-billed in a Broadway show, with her name on the marquee. Her acting career is taking off. Spider-Man is the toast of New York, a popular superstar.

If this was a fairy tale, you'd expect to see "And they lived happily ever after" written across the screen.

But it's not. This is Spider-Man, and the course of his life is as tangled as...a spider's web.

Flint Marko escapes from jail. Comic fans know this means the story is about to get grittier. Marko climbs through an apartment window, where his young daughter is sleeping. She has tubes running to her nose. He has a confrontation with his ex, who tells him that he can't hide there, since he's an escaped convict. Their daughter over-hears, and he promises her that he will get the money to help her get well, by any means necessary. His daughter gives him a locket as a keepsake.

As Marko is fleeing, he scales a fence into an experimental facility. He falls into a large pit, where a dematerialization test is about to be conducted. The scientists are aware of a change in the composition of what is in the sandy-bottomed testing zone, but assume it is a bird and continue. The whirling mechanism literally dissolves Flint.

Through some effect of the procedure, the sand merges with the convict's body. Marko's body painstakingly reforms, right down to the striped shirt he took from the apartment. He has become the villain known as Sandman.

Cast

• Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
• Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson
• James Franco as Harry Osborn
• Thomas Haden Church as Flint Marko
• Bryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacy
• Topher Grace as Eddie Brock
• Rosemary Harris as May Parker
• J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson
• James Cromwell as Captain Stacy

Crew

• Director: Sam Raimi