Spider-Man's rejected black costume look from SPIDER-MAN 3"

This picture is old as hell.

Why the [frick] didn't they use this?!?

The spider that's on that suit is great..so much like the Mike Zeck original spider design.
Don't like the one Raimi is holding.

These are better than final version.
I don't think Venom was the problem in the movie,it was dancing Peter!

Sandman was cool..killing Uncle Ben,not cool.
There was no reason for that to have happened.

I like it. But I liked Spider-man 3. Sure it had its problems but it wasn't as bad as some say.

The first and last act were great. The middle was a mess.

It would be a cool Agent Venom suit.

Such a beauty.

Sure, Spidey 3 has a lot of problems, but there's more emotion in the scene where Sandman tries to pick up the locket but it falls through his hand - than in the entirety of The Amazing Spider-Man.

This would've been miles better than the one we actually got. Hopefully, when the black suit is introduced in the Webb series, we'll get something like this.

"...the whole uncle ben killed by sandman and the emo parker shite..."

I think both of those elements got away from Raimi a little. Perhaps because Venom was shoehorned in, perhaps not.

Making Flint Ben's killer was probably an abstract motif that got a little too literal... when... uh... they made it literal. The point was to tie back to Peter's deepest sense of injustice, and show how even that can occupy a gray area.

The whole idea behind Peter turning into a "villain" himself was a direction Raimi had in mind before they even put Venom in the movie. The idea was that Peter, through his big-headedness, arrogance and disregard for the people around him, would realise how quickly the lines blur between the "heroes" and "villains".

The *way* that arrogance is shown is very Grease, very sort of 60s bad boy, which is played for comedic, campy effect ala Raimi. Setting aside the fact that that's far too tongue-in-cheek and irreverent to put in a mainstream movie, one wonders if it's done that way because there was suddenly a "mystical" reason for his villainous character traits. A more naturalistic and human descent into "darkness" would've likely skipped the Jim Carrey/The Mask-esque dance number.

I don't think there was ever any intention of going truly dark and grim with it, since that would be incredibly jarring, and there was obviously a desire to balance the tone of the movie.

Putting Venom into Raimi's take on Spidey (which was very anachronistic and rooted in 60s sensibilities, visually and tonally) was always a completely mental decision. I would've just headbutted whoever at Sony suggested it.

Should've gone with this suit...accuracy like this would have made the film just a little bit better.

Shit... That's awesome.

just goes to show what idiots studio producers can be

SimonM7 - Agreed. I may hate "Spider-Man 3", but I do concede that Sandman moment in the film is brilliantly done and one of the few good scenes I legitimately liked from that movie. "The Amazing Spider-Man", IMHO, is much worse than "Spider-Man 3" and it lacked the good writing, memorable score, and, most of all heart, the Raimi films (especially the first two) had. Though to be fair, Martin Sheen was a better, more believable Uncle Ben and he would've been perfect if the "with great power comes great responsibility" line had been said correctly (and yes, I know Uncle Ben never actually said it in the comics, it was said at the end of "Amazing Fantasy" #15 -- but still...).

well..i do dig why they rejected it. it looks like a live-size action figure.

I think what actually killed me for not liking the movie enough was not enough of the black suit...and venom was barely in it