Franco talks about Spiderman 3
August 8, 2005
 
 
While in LA recently to promote his latest film, The Great Raid, James Franco talked about the next Spiderman film. Much speculation has been made as to whether or not Franco's character, Harry Osborne, would return as the Hobgoblin as implied at the end of Spiderman 2.
 

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Can you talk a bit about Spiderman Three?  Do you start that soon?
 

James: Yeah, they’re gearing up. They won’t start the main shoot until January.  I don’t think anybody has the script.  I’ve met with Sam Raimi a couple of times to talk about it. I think there’s a little shoot.  They’re going to shoot something in September.  On those movies, they kind of invent a lot of new effects and new techniques so what they do is they usually shoot the scene a few months out so the effects team can start working on that and figuring out everything that they’re going to do so they’re going to shoot one or a couple of scenes in September and then everybody will meet up in January.

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Having done both films, where would you like to see your character go?

James:  They’re given Harry a great trajectory of the lost kid who was always trying to please his father and right before he achieves that, his father is taken from him so the only way that he can kind of become whole is to avenge his father’s death and oh…it’s his best friend so they’ve set up a great conflict and they’ll just resolve that conflict in some way.