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Mary Jane Watson has just made her Broadway debut, and Peter Parker intends to propose to her. Harry Osborn, certain that Peter is Spider-Man and responsible for his father Norman's death, takes up his father's Green Goblin technology to settle the score. An escaped convict named Flint Marko falls into a particle accelerator and rises as the shapeshifting Sandman. Peter also rescues Gwen Stacy, the police captain's daughter, from a fall, and at the Daily Bugle he contends with a rival photographer, Eddie Brock. A black substance from a fallen meteorite attaches itself to Peter's moped; when it coats his suit, the costume turns black, his powers grow stronger, and his aggression sharpens.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Spider-Man 3 (2007)
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- With an estimated production budget of $258-350 million, Spider-Man 3 was the most expensive film ever made at the time of its release.
- Grace spent six months working out to prepare for the role. His Venom costume took an hour to put on and the prosthetics four hours to apply, the fangs he wore bruised his gums, and the costume had to be constantly smeared with a viscous substance, which he found unpleasant.
- Thomas Haden Church was approached for Sandman because of his award-winning performance in Sideways, and worked out for 16 months to build the necessary muscle. His version of the character was influenced by Frankenstein's monster, the folklore character Golem, and the sadness Lon Chaney Jr. brought to misunderstood creatures.
- Producer Avi Arad felt the previous two films had relied too much on Raimi's favorite villains and not enough on fan favorites, so he convinced Raimi to include Venom, a character whose “lack of humanity” Raimi had criticized, though Eddie Brock already had a minor role in the script.
- Producer Laura Ziskin said the visual effects cost 30% more than those of Spider-Man 2. For the crane disaster scene, Stokdyk created a 1:16 scale miniature of a skyscraper section, which made it possible to portray damage to the building realistically and without guesswork involving computer models.
- For scenes that involved burying actors in sand, ground-up corn-cobs were used instead of sand, for the safety of the performers.
- At one point the Vulture was in the script, depicted as an accomplice of Sandman, and Ben Kingsley was being considered for the role.
