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Spiderman look out!
 Here
comes Spider-man, the movie by dan whitcomb los
angeles. Boy gets bit by spider. Boy starts acting
like spider, though he looks exactly like hollywood
heartthrob Tobey Maguire.
Boy becomes super-hero, falls in love with redheaded
Kirsten Dunst (woo-hoo!). But Willem Dafoe wants
boy dead, because Willem Dafoe is crazy mad and
has bad green skin.
If this all sounds vaguely familiar, it should.
It’s the plot of spider-man, the movie, which
is coming to a theater near you in about a year
and a half, after they actually make it.
But the filmmakers and Sony pictures would like
you to start getting excited now, so that you
will be really, really excited by the time the
movie comes out in May 2002 and stand in line
for hours. Maybe see it twice.
They would also like all of you Spider Man comic
book fans out there to know that they are being
extremely careful not to make you mad, because
they know how much you like your comic books,
even if it seems a little weird to the rest of
us.
That means you can expect Tobey Maguire —
as spider man and news boy Peter Parker —
to wear that familiar blue and red suit and Dunst,
as girlfriend Mary Jane Watson, to have red hair
and call him ‘tiger’ a lot.
“I’m not trying to put my mark on Spider
Man”, director Sam Raimi assured reporters
at a giant press conference on the Sony pictures
lot. “I’m just trying to bring Spider-Man
to the screen.’’
“The audience has a great deal of expectations
already inmind”, he said. “they know
what Peter Parker looks like, what he sounds like,
how he acts.”
Raimi also confessed to being ‘terrified’
at the logistical problems presented by the film,
which requires that the lead character swing from
one new york skyscraper to another at high speeds,
suspended only by ‘webs’, climb walls
and otherwise do things that most ordinary people
cannot.
Maguire, who has become one of Hollywood’s
hottest young stars after leading roles in 1999’s
The Cider House Rules and last year’s wonder
boys, has been training since July to give himself
the look and ‘acrobatic grace’ required
for the part.
“I never thought I would be wearing a skin-tight
suit day in and day out for such a long period
of time, but that’s whats great about life”,
he said. “(Spider-Man) is something you play
as a child. I’m 25 and still playing in the
back-yard.”
Dafoe, who plays mad-scientist Norman Osborn —
known as the green goblin after an experiment
blows up in his face and gives him that unsightly
grinch-like hue — was eager to play the villain
as a three-dimensional character with a pronounced
dark side.
“Before I even read the script Sam (Raimi)
talked me through it and I liked the way he talked
about it in such incredible psychological terms”,
Dafoe said. “It was really very rich.”
Dunst, who was nominated for a golden globe while
still a preteen for Interview with a Vampire and
starred in last year’s hit bring it on, said
she was excited to be working with Maguire and
playing a different kind of character.
“My goal is always to stay a moving target
so no one can ever put a finger on me”, she
said. “Besides, I’m playing the love
of Spider-Man’s life. How cool is that?”
Spider-man, which begins filming mid Jan and intends
to wrap before a possible actor’s strike
in June, also stars James Franco as Peter Parker’s
friend and room-mate.
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