In a recent interview, Kirsten Dunst has apparently slipped up by revealing the villians will in fact be Sandman and Venom with a possible appearance from Hobgoblin (via young Osborne, despite the fact that he became a second Green Goblin in the comics).  Head over to joblo.com for the news:

http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=8735

My only reservation is the fact that, so far, joblo is the only website that is running the story, which seems odd.  Either everyone else (ign, aintitcool) is having a slow day, or this is still up in the air.  Hopefully, it is the former that is true.

I don't know why I want to see if they can do Venom but I just do. Venom or Mysterio I think would be great villains to have on-screen and suck in a whole new audiance because of the cool factor that they bring along with them.

Frankly I despise Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane, some would argue she was born to play this role and I wouldn't disagree but she just isn't working for me in the films.

People are getting bored with Spiderman. We've all seen it before. So they are throwing Venom in to make a lot of hype so people don't get bored with the series.


Thats what i think.

I don't see that Topher Grace fits either Venom or Sandman.

Thomas Haden Church will be great, I figure.  

Quoted from Antemasque People are getting bored with Spiderman.

Oh, so you've spoken to all people? No, you are bored with Spider-Man. Personally, I enjoyed both films and I'm looking forward to a third.

Quoted Text We've all seen it before. So they are throwing Venom in to make a lot of hype so people don't get bored with the series.

We've seen it all before? Again, you're speaking for everyone? Introducing Venom is not hype, it's simply taking another step in exploring the Spider-Man mythos. And a logical step too.

I dunno, I made my stand on VENOM a few post back I believe... I don't feel he should be introduced just yet... I see so so many Villians Spiderman should be going up against 1st and he's like the last on the list.

I also don't believe that scrawny ass little punk Topher Grace is even made to play Venom... Hell throw me in as VENOM...

Geeezzee!!

I think they cast these characters by name and not by physical appearence. Such as... FRASIHER playing THE BEAST... who the fuck thought that this would be a good idea? BEAST is a ginat monsterious ... THING! Everything the guy playing him... is not.

We have seen it before, the good guy beats the bad guy yay yay who cares 2 months later until the crappy DVD comes out only to be followed by a better one months later?

Spiderman 1 was okay, Spiderman 2 was the same... Weren't they supposed to make it better? The whole point of having sequels is bigger and better not more of the same stuff rehashed for the same audience who is too stupid to realize they've watched and loved the same film twice.

Andrew is the only smart one who realized what was going on (a smoke and mirror show)

I can't wait for "Spider-Man 3."  I really dug the first one and the second one, to me, was the best super hero film before "Batman Begins" came along.  

That being said, I agree with Balt that it may be a bit early for Venom's appearance.  Initially they were saying Thomas Haden Church as The Sandman (perfect!) and Topher Grace as Electro, which I could easily see.  While Church is still set to play Sandman, I really wish a different actor was set for Venom.  Maybe have Electro be in the third and then still have the character of Eddie Brock.  This way, the end could somehow reference Venom for the fourth and then do the same thing with Carnage for the fifth.  

But I defiantly wouldn't say people are sick of Spider-Man.  There are just too many plot twists and characters there for it ever to get boring to me (like the clone saga or Carnage saga alone could make up three different movies).

I have to disagree about Kelsey Grammar as Beast though.  He has the perfect voice, and I believe there are options to getting around his personal appearance.  Either a.) have him be a fully CGI creation voiced by Grammar or b.) go the "Hellboy" route and throw on so many prosthetics that the only part you would see is his face.  Then again, maybe it won't matter, as I get the feeling that "X-Men 3" is sort of going to suck complete ass.

First Picture of Thomas Haden Church as Sandman here

-Zavier