With all the hoopla about Superman's return, everyone's forgotten about Spider-Man! Director Sam Raimi returns next year with the third Spidey adventure, this time co-starring Thomas Hayden Church (Sideways) as Sandman and Bryce Dallas Howard (The Village) as new love-interest Gwen Stacey.The teaser announces "How long... can any any man fight the darkness... before he finds it in himself..." as an oil-like substance consumes the Spider-Man logo, before we pull out to reveal Spider-Man in a black costume sitting atop a church tower.
From there, Spidey leaps down and we see him struggling to take this "costume" off, mixed with footage of Harry Osbourne and MJ, who asks "what's happened to you?", before we see Peter Parker on a bed... and an oily creature grabs his hand. Comic-book fans will know this to be an evil "Symbiote"...
There follows more clips of Peter trying to rip his costume off, before declaring "I have to stop it!" and we hit cut to "NEXT SUMMER" and a sequence of clips: Spidey leaping across the sky, the Sandman bursting out the side of a building like a giant, Peter kissing MJ in a web...
... Harry in a Green Goblin outfit, Spidey battling Sandman in a subway, Peter dancing with Gwen Stacey, Harry almost hit by a pumpkin bomb, Peter falling whilst trying to grab a ring, the Green Goblin smashing into a wall, and Peter pulling open his shirt to reveal the black costume again!
Finally, there's a nice pullout to reveal black-suit Spidey hanging upside down... staring at a reflection of his red-blue suited self in the reflection of a glass window... and the simple word "3" appears.
Spider-Man 3 will hit US cinemas on 4 May 2007. But be sure to check out the teaser in High-Definition for yourself here -- right now!
