Spider-Man 3 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Spider-Man 3 or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Spider-Man 3

[amber]

Sam Raimi is the first director to helm three installments in a superhero franchise. At the time Bryan Singer had only made 2 X-Men movies and Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher each did two Batman movies. Christopher Nolan is second with his Dark Knight Trilogy. Bryan Singer became third when he returned for X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).

[ronnie]

Sam Raimi had previously considered Thomas Haden Church for a role in The Gift (2000).

[scarlett]

(at around 1h 30 mins) The scene where Spider-Man throws an exploding pumpkin back at Harry, exploding in Harry's face, recalls a similar scene in Spider-Man (2002). Green Goblin throws a pumpkin at Spider-Man, blowing off half of his Spider-Man mask.

[wesley]

Adrian Lester had as cameo as a research scientist who is sought after by the Sandman to find a cure for his ailing daughter. He was seen in one teaser trailer for the film; however, his scenes were cut from the final theatrical version.

[richard]

As of 2017, this is the most recent live-action Spider-Man movie to feature the character J. Jonah Jameson. In the movies with Andrew Garfield as Parker, Jameson was mentioned but remained off-camera; in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Tom Holland as Parker, J.K. Simmons returned to reprise J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019).

[miriam]

Over 1000 people worked on the film, some of them putting in the 8000 hours needed to construct the 40 Spider-Man suits and others writing complicated CGI software.

[oscar]

The font used for the posters of the play Mary Jane appears in, was originally designed for the first Fantastic Four logo.

[kyle]

This was Cliff Robertson's final film before his death on September 10, 2011 at the age of 88.

[kenneth]

Partial scenes, where Spider-Man is hanging from the back of an armored car, were filmed in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, due to high shooting costs in New York City.

[charlie]

One of the sounds used for Venom is of a Tasmanian Devil.

[ray]

According to composer Christopher Young, the Sandman's theme was composed with two contrabass saxophones, two contrabass clarinets, two contrabrass bassoons and eight (very low) French horns to describe Sandman as "heavy and aggressive." Venom's theme was meant to make him sound "vicious and demonic" and used eight French horns.

[bryan]

The photograph of Mary Jane next to Peter's police scanner is the picture he took of her at the science exhibit in Spider-Man (2002).

[ivan]

(at around 50 mins) In a fight scene where Spider-Man punches through Sandman's chest, congenital amputee boxer Baxter Humby took Tobey Maguire's place in filming the scene. Humby, who was born without his right hand, helped deliver the intended effect of punching through Sandman's chest.

[jamie]

You can see Venom on the black suit's eyes on the movie poster.

[lena]

Alvin Sargent secured a seven figure deal to rewrite Spider-Man 2 (2004) and work on this film.

[frances]

The name of the character Mr. Ditkovitch clearly recalls the name of the co-creator of Spider-Man, Steve Ditko.

[sandra]

A sequel was in development and was going to feature Dr. Curt Connor's turn into The Lizard and feature Carnage. But after some disputes over the script and Sam Raimi, the movie was cancelled in favor of a reboot.

[gabriel]

Reportedly an early draft had John Jameson, the astronaut from Spider-Man 2 (2004), returning from a space mission with the symbiote as a stowaway. To save time and money, this was eliminated in favor of having the meteorite just happen to land next to Peter Parker. The space mission story was reused for Venom (2018) but instead, Riot was the symbiote instead.

[melinda]

In June 2017, 10 years after the movie premiered, an editors cut of the movie was released. It features a few extra scenes, that never made it to the original cut. However, a lot of scenes shown in trailers and promos from 2007, are not a part of the editors cut. A worldwide petition currently exists, to have the movie released with all the deleted scenes - similar to how Spider-Man 2.1 was made.