Spider-Man 3( 2007 film)

***Spider-Man 3*** is a 2007 American superhero film produced by Marvel Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It was directed by Sam Raimi and scripted by Sam and Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent. It is the final film in Raimi's Spider-Man film franchise. The film stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rosemary Harris, J. K. Simmons, James Cromwell and Cliff Robertson in his final acting appearance. The budget of the film was 258 million dollars and the box office was 890.9 million dollars.

PLOT

Peter Parker plans to propose to Mary Jane Watson, who has just made her Broadway musical debut. A meteorite lands near Central Park, and an extraterrestrial symbiote attaches itself to Peter's moped. Meanwhile, police pursue escaped prisoner and robber Flint Marko, who falls into an experimental particle accelerator that fuses his body on a microscopic level with the surrounding sand, transforming him into Sandman. Harry Osborn attacks Peter with new weapons based on his father's Green Goblin technology, leading to partial amnesia, which makes him forget his revenge.

During a festival honoring Spider-Man, Marko robs an armored car. NYPD Captain George Stacy tells Peter and Aunt May that Marko was Uncle Ben's killer, and the deceased Dennis Carradine was only Marko's accomplice. While a vengeance-obsessed Peter sleeps in his Spider-Man costume, the symbiote bonds with him. Peter wakes up hanging from a skyscraper, discovers his costume has changed, and his powers have been enhanced, but the symbiote brings out Peter's dark side. Wearing the new black suit, Spider-Man locates Marko—spiting his *Daily Bugle* competitor Eddie Brock by breaking his camera—and battles him in a subway tunnel. He discovers water is Marko's weakness, and breaks a water pipe to reduce the Sandman into mud, washing Marko away into the pipes, before leaving him for dead.

Peter's changed personality alienates Mary Jane, whose career is floundering, and she finds solace with Harry. Harry recovers from his amnesia, and urged by a hallucination of his dead father, compels Mary Jane to break up with Peter. After Mary Jane tells Peter she loves somebody else, Harry meets with Peter, and claims to be "the other guy." Later, Peter, wearing the black suit, confronts Harry, and spitefully tells him his father never loved him. After a violent fight, Harry throws a pumpkin bomb at Peter, who deflects it back, disfiguring Harry's face.

Under the symbiote's influence, Peter exposes Brock by showing that he submitted doctored photographs showing Spider-Man as a criminal. Furious at having to print a retraction, *Daily Bugle* chief J. Jonah Jameson fires Brock. Soon afterwards, to make Mary Jane jealous, Peter brings Stacy's daughter, Gwen to the nightclub, where Mary Jane works, but Gwen catches on, and leaves. Peter brawls with the bouncers, and after accidentally attacking Mary Jane, he realizes the symbiote is changing, and slowly corrupting him. Retreating to a church bell tower, he discovers that he cannot remove the suit, but that the symbiote weakens when the bell rings. Peter removes the symbiote, and it falls to the lower tower, landing on Brock, who was praying for Peter's death. The symbiote bonds to Brock's body, transforming him into Venom. Brock then finds Marko, and convinces him to join forces together to defeat Peter.

Brock hijacks Mary Jane's taxi, and hangs it from a web hundreds of feet above a sand-filled construction site. Peter seeks Harry's help, but is rejected. While Peter battles with Brock, Harry learns the truth about his father's death from his butler, and goes to help Peter as he is being overpowered. Harry subdues the Sandman before assisting Peter against Brock. In the ensuing confrontation, Brock almost impales Peter with Harry's glider, but Harry jumps in the way, and so is impaled instead. Fighting the symbiote, Peter remembers how the church bell weakened it. He grabs pipes, and creates a ring around the symbiote, creating a wall of sonic vibrations. The symbiote releases Brock, and Peter uses his webs to pull Brock from it. However, the symbiote has gained enough power from Peter and Brock to live on its own without a host. Peter throws a pumpkin bomb at the symbiote from Harry's glider, but Brock jumps in to save it and the resulting explosion that destroys it also kills him in the process.

Marko explains to Peter that he committed robberies to save his dying daughter, he accidentally shot Ben, and Ben's death left him plagued with guilt. Peter forgives a tearful Marko, who dissipates, and floats away. Shortly afterwards, Peter and Harry forgive each other after reflecting on their interactive friendship together moments before the latter succumbs to his injuries and dies with the former and Mary Jane at his side. After Harry's funeral, Peter and Mary Jane reconcile their relationship at the nightclub where the two have a romantic dance.

CAST

Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker / Spider-Man

Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson

James Franco as Harry Osborn / New Goblin

Thomas Haden Church as Flint Marko / Sandman

Topher Grace as Eddie Brock / Venom

Bryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacy

Rosemary Harris as Aunt May / May Parker

J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson

James Cromwell as George Stacy

Theressa Russel as Emma Marko

Dylan Baker as Dr. Curt Connors

Bill Nunn as Joseph "Robbie" Robertson

Elizabeth Banks as Betty Brant

Ted Raimi as Hoffman

Perla Janey-Hardene as Penny Marko

Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin

Cliff Robertson as Ben Parker / Uncle Ben

Elya Baskin as Mr. Ditkovich

Mageina Tovah as Ursula Ditkovich

Michael Papajohn as Dennis Carradine

Joe Mangiello as Eugene "Flash" Thompson

Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee has a cameo in *Spider-Man 3*, as he does in many Marvel-based films.  He plays a man who, after reading a news bulletin along with Peter, tells him, "You know, I guess one person can make a difference," followed by his catchphrase "Nuff said." Actor Bruce Campbell, who had cameo roles as a wrestling ring announcer in "Spider-Man" and as a rude usher in "Spider-Man 2," returns in "Spider-Man 3" with a new cameo as a French maître d'. His character helps Peter try to propose to Mary Jane. Years later, Jeffrey Henderson, who worked on the storyboards for the cancelled "Spider-Man 4" movie, released information regarding which villains would appear within the movie. One of those included Bruce Campbell's character's progression into Quentin Beck/Mysterio. Composer Christopher Young appears in the film as a pianist at Mary Jane's theater when she is fired, while producer Grant Curtis has a cameo as the driver of an armored car that the Sandman attacks.