In the upcoming Spider-Man 2 movie, our friendly neighborhood webslinger is "pretty stressed out," star Tobey Maguire tells Newsweek. "He's growing weary of his lifestyle. He's dying to live a normal life."
Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) is not about to let that happen, however. "The Green Goblin [the first film's antagonist] was a green guy on a glider," Maguire laughs. "Which is, you know, that's cool. Doc Ock is just a better cinematic villain. And I love him from the comics. He was always the coolest bad guy."
Also, Nokia and Activision said the Spider-Man 2 game will be released for N-Gage game decks.
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official movie Web site has a new image of Spidey and Mary Jane posted. This is an image from one of three new posters to come: “Destiny,” “Choice” and “Sacrifice,” picking up on the movie’s main themes.
Columbia Pictures execs told the Hollywood Reporter the sequel (debuting June 30) may or may not outpace the first film’s opening weekend gross of $114.8 million. "With 'Spider-Man' having done the numbers that it did, I don't know that we're out to beat that," says Geoffrey Ammer, president of worldwide marketing at the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group. "That would be a very ambitious goal for anybody."
Producer Laura Ziskin put forward that creativity is the studio’s main concern (uh, right): "We were just trying to build on the first one. The great thing about 'Spider-Man' is the characters: What we tried to do is, every character has a continuing drama in their life -- an evolution and a crisis they're dealing with -- so it was fun to explore. In the first movie, we had the fun of the original story, and that was great -- but in some ways, the benefit of the second movie is that the audience knows these characters and loves them and cares about them."
Finally, Kirsten Dunst told Access Hollywood there’ll be another upside-down kiss like the famous scene from the first film.
"I do, isn't that weird?" she said. "And you'll see why.”
"We're doing everything with the knowledge of the first one, so the special effects are better and the stunts are better and all that stuff," added Maguire, "but it's all supported by the story, which is what's important to me."