Spider-Man new costume (update)

Not only was the hair short and the lesbians hot on Friday but it was also a BIG SUPERHERO NEWSDAY. And now I've even got some new pictures which are probably fakes. Here's Fridays post (with addendum)

As you know I am a HUGE live-action superhero fan, have been my whole life and if I catch anyone saying I'm a Johnny Come Lately, I will tie you into a chair, prop your eyes open and force you to watch my copy of Dr. Strange with Peter Hooten.



So I've enjoyed the hell out of the last 8 years of beyond-belief live action superhero films. I never thought such an era would ever arrive as I rushed to the theatre to see The Phantom, which was THE ONLY SUPERHERO MOVIE THAT YEAR. Or Judge Dredd, The Rocketeer, all the only Superhero efforts in their respective years. We can look back and laugh about it now as a year with Ghost Rider, Superman Returns, and X-Men 3, follows a year with Elektra, Batman Begins, and Fantastic Four.

The Phantom. It was the only one. So we went.

So anyway. Big Big news. Do you know it already? This shit gets out so fast. It's probably being printed in the Red Eye as I write this after yet another cover story on the smoking ban.

As you know I'm easily excited at Superhero news, such as the first photo of Thomas Haden Church as Spidey's Villain Sandman.



As uneventful at that shirt and those pants might be. I love watching them come to life. Which is why I was SUPER excited to see the first shots of the new X-Men from X-Men 3.





And I've also been generous with images of the upcoming Ghost Rider film based on the killer cult comic of the 70's - the era that brought you Power Man & Iron Fist, Moon Knight, and Shang-Chi: Master of Martial Arts at Marvel Comics.






But today...











The Spider-Man 3 Poster has been released.









but that's not all...







the costume....



is black...



It's confirmed by Marvel, this is not a black & white photo. The costume is black.

99.99999999999% of you out there just said: So fucking what? But the rest of you...how hot is that? You know what that means? You know who Topher Grace is playing?

For anyone who was not lucky enough to be obsessed with Spider-man during and after The Secret Wars, Spider-Man went off to this alien planet to fight in a war (a secret one) with everyone and their mother. He discovered this space substance which climbed onto his body and gave him the black costume.

He later found out that it was living organism, sucking off his life-energy, a symbiote. He tried to get rid of it, but it didn't want to leave, finally Mr. Fantastic burned it off of Peter Parker. Leave it to Mr. Fantastic.

The living thing found the body of a prisoner named Eddie Brock who became Venom.


The costume is black. The fucking costume is black.

(update)

In the intervening time some nerd put together a fake trailer for Spider-Man 3 which included this image of Venom. Let's hope the real one looks this cool.



And if then someone did a little photshop job to make the black costume look like THE black costume. Not where Raimi's going (unfortunately) but pretty neat.



430 day 15 hours 55 minutes and 23 seconds until it opens. Until then, there's Superman...(122 days until my 24 Superhero filmfest...who's in?)