Spider-Man 2 Preview Online

Several folks noted that you can now see the first trailers for Spider-man 2, provided you have some broadband action going on. It's nice to know that there will be something to look forward to after RotK comes out.

About the trailer...

[Anonymous Coward]

Clearly Dr. Octopus is the nemesis, but I read the Lizard will be in this movie as well. Maybe he will appear in a future trailer?

Screw .swf

[Gannoc]

Get it up on Quicktime/Apple like all other trailers, you bastards.

nah

[SweetAndSourJesus]

Yahoo has more bandwidth than God, man. They're advertising this on their front page, so I imagine they're ready for some serious hits.

Re:Screw .swf

[runenfool]

avi or asf? Huh? And quicktime is too proprietary?

How about an mpeg? 4 even ..

Re:About the trailer...

[The Lynxpro]

"Clearly Dr. Octopus is the nemesis, but I read the Lizard will be in this movie as well. Maybe he will appear in a future trailer?"

Dr. Curt Conners might be in the film. He was mentioned as being Pete's boss before Pete got fired from the lab in the original film. Curt Conners in the comics became "The Lizard." However, it is doubtful "The Lizard" will make a reptilian appearance in this film. Remember, Sony plans on Spidey being a never-ending franchise, like MGM/UA's James Bond series.

But, from the way it sounds, the Scarecrow will appear in the new Batman film for the first 10 minutes before the movie focuses on Batman and his main foe, R'as Al Ghul. What a great film...Chris Nolan directing and they already have Christian Bale as Batman, Michael Cain as Alfred, the guy from 28 Days Later as the Scarecrow, and possibly Kurt Russell as Sgt./Commissioner Gordon...

Oh yeah, back to Spider-Man 2! :0

Another Link

[NeurAlien6]

Go here [sonypictures.com] to get the trailer straight from Sony Pictures.

Re:WAY too small

[wo1verin3]

Instead of going to link, first go directly to flash file in your browser:

1) Go to http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/sony/spiderman 2/master5.swf [yahoo.com].

2) As the other poster says, now right click and use the 'zoom in' feature.

Re:First post - source mongering...

[Ark42]

Note to self, use preview next time, the playlist file contains:

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Hmmm,,, REminds me of a song :)

[Anonymous Coward]

Ode to a Superhero

Peter Parker was pitiful
Couldn't have been any shyer
Mary Jane still wouldn't notice him
Even if his hair was on fire

But then one day he went to that science lab
That mutated spider came down
Oh, and now Peter crawls over everyone's walls
And he's swingin' all over town

La li la, li de da
La la, li le la da dum

Sling us a web, you're the Spider-Man
Sling us a web tonight
'Cause we're all in the mood for a hero now
And there's evil doers to fight

Now Harry the rich kid's a friend of his
Who horns in on Mary Jane
But to his great surprise it seems she prefers guys
Who can kiss upside down in the rain

"With great power comes great responsibility"
That's the catch phrase of old Uncle Ben
If you missed it, don't worry, they'll say the line
Again and again and again

Oh, la la la, di de da
La la, di di da da dom

Now Norman's a billionaire scientist
Who never had time for his son
But then something went screwy and before you knew he
Was trying to kill everyone

And he's ridin' around on that glider thing
And he's throwin' that weird pumpkin bomb
Yes, he's wearin' that dumb Power Rangers mask
But he's scarier without it on

Sling us a web, you're the Spider-Man
Sling us a web tonight
'Cause you're brave and you're strong and so limber now
But where'd you come up with those tights?

It's a pretty sad day at the funeral
Norman Osborn has bitten the dust
And I heard Harry's said he wants Spider-Man dead
Aw, but his buddy Pete he can trust

Oh, and M.J. is all how for Peter now
Aw, but Peter, he just shuts her down
Mary Jane, don't you cry, you can give it a try
Again when the sequal comes 'round

Oh, la la la, di de da
La la, di di da da dum

Sling us a web, you're the Spider-Man
Sling us a web tonight
'Cause we all sure could use us a hero now
And we think that you'll do all right

Weird Al

Re:Something to look forward to?

[milkme123]

Four or five sequels? You wish!

2003 Sequels:
Lord Of The Rings 3
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
Terminator 3
Bad Boys 2
Charlie's Angels 2
Final Destination 2
Hypercube: Cube 2
2 Fast 2 Furious
Dumb & Dumberer
Rugrats 2: Rugrats Go Wild!
Legally Blonde 2
Tomb Raider 2
Spy Kids 3D
American Pie 3
Jeepers Creepers 2
Scary Movie 3
Barbershop 2
Freddy Vs Jason
X2

And in 2002:
Blade 2
Austin Powers 3
Star Wars Ep 2
Harry Potter 2
Lord Of The Rings 2
Die Another Day (James Bond 20)
Star Trek 10
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Desperado 2)
Men In Black 2
Stuart Little 2
Spy Kids 2
The Santa Clause 2
The Scorpion King (The Mummy 3)
American Psycho 2
Analyze That (Analyze This 2)
Baby Geniuses 2: Superbabies
Jason X
The Sum Of All Fears (Jack Ryan 4)

Re:Something to look forward to!

[TopShelf]

I figured after Return of the King, that was it for my life, and I was ready to commit suicide.

Dude, what are you thinking? At least wait for the DVD to come out next summer. Or if you want to really hang around, Peter Jackson has discussed the possibility of filming "The Hobbit" after he completes his King Kong remake.

Personally, I think they could keep the WETA Workshop busy by doing a TV series of various storylines from the Silmarillion & Book of Lost Tales...

Re:Screw .swf

[spicyjeff]

Actually QuickTime 6.3 does have APIs for this sort of thing...3GPP [apple.com].

Re:About the trailer...

[jayhawk88]

See, that's the thing: no way you can convince me a Venom-themed movie needs anything other than Venom. Perhaps this is in the works for the third movie? The trailer showed a brief shot of a military-dressed man with someone. This was how they setup Venom in the SpiderMan cartoon, since they didn't have Secret Wars - some guy (JJ's son I think?) was an astronaut and came back from space with the symbiot in tow. It first found Parker but he eventually rejected it, then it found Eddie. You setup the first part of the movie showing Eddie getting fired because of Peter, he finds the symbiot, learns that Parker is SpiderMan, goes a little bit nuts, Bingo, instant movie. Venom-themed SpiderMan movie has the potential to be truley kick-ass if they do it right.

You're probably right about the various low-tiered characters, but then you don't really need them. By the time you get through Doc Oc, Venom, and another Green Goblin/Hobgoblin movie, your 4 pictures in and the franchise is probably running out of juice anyway. Actually, what might be really cool is to have a SpiderMan/Daredevil crossover movie vs. The Kingpin, since he's a big presence in the Spider books anyway. Lots of good opportunities for Spidey/Daredevil "This is how I handle things" stuff. Too bad Daredevil got screwed up out of the gate and will be lucky to see the light of day again.

Re:First post - source mongering...

[derF024]

I bet this is mostly done to prevent copying. When will people realise that this just stops your advert from being seen by the most people.

Or maybe to make it work on more platforms? Macromedia's plugin is installed on all windows machines by default, and is easy to install under linux as well. Quicktime and WMP don't have nearly the same default install base. I wish they'd do more movie trailers using flash, as neither quicktime nor WMP work as a plugin on my system, usually resulting in me screwing around with wget looking for source urls to get anything useful out of apple.com's crap traliers.

Re:I am an heretic

[osu-neko]

I liked the original spider-sense better than the bullet-time spider sense. It used to be a subconcious thing, a feeling, an urge, a reflex. Now its just his conciousness speeding up, I find that less interresting and much more mundane.

Actually, that's not true. If you don't feeling like rewatching the original movie, just watch this trailer. The spider-sense is definately still there as a subconscious feeling/reflex. The fact that he also has the ability to think in "bullet-time" does not replace the vital, near-psychic spider-sense -- it's just something additional to it.

Re:This is getting spooky...

[The Lynxpro]

"Not long ago, we were having a conversation about this subject and I was saying that Doc Oc needs to be the next Spiderman villian and that it would really be cool if a batman was done that featured Ra's Al Guhl"

Join the club. Ever since WB was toying with the "Batman Year One" storyline, I had been posting on AICN that that idea was a mistake and that they should pit Bats up with Al Ghul instead of retreading on past movies. I was estatic when the rumors started appearing that Al Ghul was indeed the main villain. I had hoped screenwriter David Goyer had included Al Ghul's daughter Talia as a character (to which I wanted Monica Bellucci to portray) but apparently the film is Talia-less and instead we'll have Katie Holmes as Bruce Wayne's girlfriend named "Rachel" instead.

As for Spidey meets Doc Ock, that had been the plan since the 80s when the "Spider-Man" film property was in the hands of the Cannon Group. Screenwriter Ted Newsom wrote several scripts for Spidey's origin film with Ock as the main villain. He is in fact suing Marvel and Sony over several of his script elements appearing in Spidey1 yet he did not receive a screenwriting credit...

Re:FOUR legs.....?

[Scrameustache]

Should he be known as Dr. Quadrapus then?
And no, his real arms and legs don't count.


He went from a 4 limbed creature to an 8 limbed creature.

Why YOU don't count the first 4 is your problem.

Re:First post - source mongering...

[noisehole]

alternative url : torrent [cyberyoda.org]

Re:Let me get my hands

[stripe]

I think its so that SONY can use it as a marketing research tool. With the trailer distributed all over the map they cannot get an accurate assessmet of the film's potential. With a larger more accurate forecast they can hit up McDonalds or Burger King or whatever franchise that sells movie tie ins for more $$$.