Sam Raimi talks Spider Man 3 SFX

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Our colleagues from Now Playing had the chance to talk to director Sam Raimi and his producing partner Rob Tapert, while they were promoting the DVD release of the horror hit Boogeyman which comes from their Ghost House Pictures production company. And of course they also talked about the upcoming 3rd Spider Man movie. Sam Raimi didn't say anything about the plot, but he explained a few things about the Special Effects. Here's a clip from the artticle:

For starters, the director acknowledged that the effects will be a combination of the practical and the computer generated varieties, just as they were for Spider-Man 2â€™s Doc Ock.

"Absolutely, the new villain, the new powers [will be a mix]. We're shooting tests right now to determine what is best pulled off believably as a practical effect and what can't be, what's too dangerous, what is too unreasonable, and what looks better in CG."

Even though CG versions of New York City and Spider-Man already exist on hard drives somewhere from the first two films, Raimi prefers to more or less start from scratch with this movie when it comes to rendering the visuals.

"The problem is that, in my opinion, the demands of the audience for the quality of the effects rises every picture. So if were able to just say to ourselves, â€˜You know what, the effects were good enough. Letâ€™s use the database and go from there,â€™ it would be a tremendous amount easier. I could do a lot more shots a lot cheaper, but I donâ€™t actually think thatâ€™s what the fans want me to do."

You can read the complete article here.