Raimi's SPIDER-MAN Trilogy: Black Cat Concept Art & Alternate Green Goblin Designs

Raimi's SPIDER-MAN Trilogy: Black Cat Concept Art & Alternate Green Goblin Designs

Conceptual illustrator, James Carson, had the pleasure of working on all three of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films. Now, come see his unused concept art for Black Cat, Green Goblin and Sandman.

By nailbiter111 - Oct 09, 2013 02:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Spider-Man
Source: Film Sketchr


Let's start with Spider-Man 2, the best film of the three. Over on James Carson's website, there is a rather tantalizing image in the Spider-Man 2 folder. It is of Spidey's feline ally, Black Cat/Felicia Hardy (image on the right). We've known for awhile that Black Cat was at one point early drafts of the script included the character, but this is our first look at a possible costume for her. Snazzy!

Next, we have artwork produced for Raimi's original Spider-Man film. These images include alternate designs for the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) costume, Spider-Man's (Tobey Maguire) mask and web-shooters.

Lastly, thee pieces of concept art that feature Flint "Sandman" Marko (Thomas Haden Church) materializing at the beach as a extravagant sand castle, for his ill daughter, Penny (Perla Haney-Jardine). This scene was in the original screenplay, but it was cut to make more room for Venom (Topher Grace). A character that was forced upon Raimi by Sony, and with the urging of producer Avi Arad.


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Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) gives up his crime-fighting identity of Spider-Man in a desperate attempt to return to ordinary life and keep the love of MJ (Kirsten Dunst). But a ruthless, terrifying new villain, the multi-tentacled Doc Ock, forces Peter to swing back into action to save everything he holds dear.
















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Average teenager Peter Parker is transformed into an extraordinary super hero after he is accidentally bitten by a radioactive spider. When his beloved uncle is savagely murdered during a robbery, young Peter vows to use his powers to avenge his death. Deeming himself "Spider-Man ," he sets about ridding the streets of crime, bringing him into conflict with malevolent super-villain "Green Goblin."





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Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) finally has the girl of his dreams, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst), and New York City is in the throes of Spider-mania! But when a strange alien symbiote turns Spider-Man¿s suit black, his darkest demons come to light changing Spider-Man inside as well as out. Spider-Man is in for the fight of his life against a lethal mix of villains - the deadly Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), Venom (Topher Grace), and the New Goblin (James Franco) - as well as the enemy within himself.
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englandlover77
englandlover77 - 10/9/2013, 2:43 PM
wow
CharlesLord
CharlesLord - 10/9/2013, 2:43 PM
the goblin design with the purple in it actually looks kinda good
Humperdink
Humperdink - 10/9/2013, 2:45 PM
Agreed. Purple one is better than the power-ranger final product.
thewolfx
thewolfx - 10/9/2013, 2:48 PM
Raimi was a boss till sm3
MrCBM56
MrCBM56 - 10/9/2013, 2:48 PM
Was black cat costume blue?

Otherwise awesome art.
MrReese
MrReese - 10/9/2013, 2:50 PM
Shoulda gone with this 1

SoundWave
SoundWave - 10/9/2013, 2:53 PM
Raimi's trilogy is great! Reboot sucks. Garfield - totaly not Parker (Garfield is a cat XD), he is annoying hipster! Kill all hipsters for mainstream industry!
CCR
CCR - 10/9/2013, 2:54 PM
Yeah the purple & green would've, oh I don't know, actually looked SOMEWHAT like the Green Goblin's supposed to? lol.... and why doesn't everyone cry about Spidey wanting to quit after only ONE movie...oh yeah, they've just gotta hard-on against Nolan's Batman.
D117
D117 - 10/9/2013, 2:55 PM
The Black Cat and Sandman art I haven't seen, but the Goblin, Spidey and web-shooter concepts aren't new, they were featured behind the scenes on the original Spider-Man DVD & Blu Ray, still awesome nevertheless.
Demongod20
Demongod20 - 10/9/2013, 2:58 PM
@ thewolfx

No truer words have been spoken. We all had Issues with some of the things that Raimi did with Spider-man but even with all its flaws, his Spider-man series overall was one of the best.
Folchibas
Folchibas - 10/9/2013, 3:09 PM
@BlackJack10 - What!?!? The 2nd one was by far the best of the 3.
TheFox
TheFox - 10/9/2013, 3:13 PM
Awww... the Sandman sand castle thing looks like it came from a great deleted scene... one that would have given us exactly the emotional connection to Flint and his daughter that the movie was so sorely missing...

The Goblin designs suck, though. And that Black Cat is okay.

I think the movies themselves got most of the characters' looks right. Even Goblin.

Z
Ocelot
Ocelot - 10/9/2013, 3:14 PM
Spiderman 3 was still better than that medicore, uninspired, tactless blatant cash grab known as The Amazing Spiderman that didn't know what type of film it wanted it to be. "The Amazing rehash" is what it should be called. Spiderman 3 at least had scope and scale, that sub-standard imitation that was released last year felt like a TV movie ugh, something Raimi's movies never felt like.

On the concept art, the fourth one with the red goggles is really good, hopefully the Green Goblin looks like that in the next film and not something that looks laughable like in the comics, design just wont translate well into live action i'm afraid i'm afraid.
D117
D117 - 10/9/2013, 3:18 PM
@beto Huh? I said the original as in the first film
Jer3miah
Jer3miah - 10/9/2013, 3:22 PM
Wow, that fourth Goblin concept is incredible. Damn fools chose the wrong one. And of course, Black Cat looms like every other superheroine design.
Spiderman2o29
Spiderman2o29 - 10/9/2013, 3:26 PM
Moohika
Moohika - 10/9/2013, 3:27 PM
@beto
Those gifs are killing me! LMFAO
TheYoungMan
TheYoungMan - 10/9/2013, 3:48 PM
Still better than the Iron Man trilogy.
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 10/9/2013, 4:01 PM
This looks real, real good

thewolfx
thewolfx - 10/9/2013, 4:01 PM
@demongod


Amen
Optimus83
Optimus83 - 10/9/2013, 4:05 PM
Cool. ...Desings
Highflyer
Highflyer - 10/9/2013, 4:09 PM
@soundwave, this coming from the same guy who thought the incredible hulk was shit. smh
Highflyer
Highflyer - 10/9/2013, 4:14 PM
@Ocelot, rehash? what did you expect? Raimi didn't event spider-man's origin. Plus SM3 was still crap it doesn't matter if it felt big in scale.
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 10/9/2013, 4:17 PM
@beto

I'm not going to lie, but those scenes were my favorite in SM3.
Highflyer
Highflyer - 10/9/2013, 4:20 PM
The drawings look cool though.
theowl
theowl - 10/9/2013, 4:21 PM
Spider-man 2 is just.. mjjeehh.. It has a boring villain and it's really slow! I just like spider-man 1 and TASM.
Azrael725
Azrael725 - 10/9/2013, 4:27 PM
I guess I'm one of the few people out there that actually likes the suit they used for the movie . . . I don't get all the Power Ranger comparisons. Have any of you ever watched Power Rangers? This suit is 100x more badass then any costume in Power Rangers, and this is coming from big Power Rangers fan! He is a great villain with a great costume to boot. Raimi's Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 are amazing films and they did a great job with the costumes . . . except for Venom. I will never forgive them for that.
spectre88
spectre88 - 10/9/2013, 4:32 PM
So in other words, we were never going to get a decent Green Goblin costume from Rami.
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