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Harry Osborn Looks Like a Huge Tool in Spider-Man 3
— February 24, 2007 3 Comments
Well, I’m surprised no one’s really talking about this yet, but have you seen Harry Osborn’s new costume in Spider-man 3? It basically makes him look like a huge tool. For those that don’t know, in Spider-man, Harry Osborn is the son of Norman Osborn and is played by James Franco in Spider-man 1, 2 and 3.
In Spider-man 3, Harry takes on the “Goblin” persona to get revenge on Spider-man for killing his father. I don’t think we know what his official villian name will be yet, but the rumor is, it is the “Hobgoblin.” On the official Spider-man 3 web site, he is listed as “New Goblin.”
The movie may give reason as to why the new Goblin costume is the way it is, but as soon as I saw the pictures, I thought it was embarassing. See for yourself in the picture above, which was taken from a desktop background downloaded from the Spider-man movie site. It basically looks like he is planning on playing a serious game of paintball, going snowboarding or participating in some other extreme sport.
I guess this is just another one of Sony’s lame changes to the Spider-man comics continuity. In this movie, we already have to endure the fact they are claiming that the Sandman is responsible for the death of Peter’s Uncle Ben, which is different from the comics. Also in the comics, Harry became the second Green Goblin but not the Hobgoblin.
Hopefully, the fact that Venom is in the movie will overshadow this embarrasment and redeem the movie itself in the eyes of the fans. I do expect the movie will be awesome and possibly the best one out of the three. But I’m afraid that this part of the movie may be laughable and remembered by fans the same way that Batman’s nipples are to this day.
Yikes. This is atrocious, especially after they did such a good job with the Goblin’s costume in the first movie. He looks like a generic “futuristic soldier” from a bad action flick. Hopefully this glimpse is out-of-context and we’ll see something more satisfactory when 3 comes out.
Follow up: I just saw new footage today at WonderCon, and Harry wasn’t wearing any mask or headgear at all with his costume as he was chasing Peter as the Goblin. Let’s just the toolish look pictured above is a “prototype” in the film.
I thought Harry’s costume worked well in the movie. I guess the way it looked was up to the director.