New Spiderman villain revealed

The new villain that will test Tobey Maguire's Spiderman in the third movie of Sam Raimi's franchise will be The Sandman.

Thomas Haden Church, star of Spanglish and Sideways, will play The Sandman, who after being exposed to radiation takes on superhuman powers and the ability to transform himself into sand.

This super-villain is bound to give audiences some excellent special effects to enjoy, as Spiderman will have to bash away at a cloud of sand.

The third instalment of Spiderman will again star Kirsten Dunst, of Crazy/Beautiful and Mona Lisa Smile, alongside the man with the spider powers Tobey Maguire, who has also starred in Seabiscuit, The Cider House Rules and Ang Lee's The Ice Storm.

Sam Raimi, who was also behind The Evil Dead, The Quick And The Dead and Xena: Warrior Princess, is now working on a sequel to the horror film The Grudge, which originally starred Sarah Michelle Gellar, and a reworking of the classic story Monkey's Paw.

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