Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 American superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It was directed by Sam Raimi from a screenplay by Raimi, his older brother Ivan, and Alvin Sargent. It is the third and final installment in Raimi's original Spider-Man trilogy. The film stars Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, alongside Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, Bryce Dallas Howard, James Cromwell, Rosemary Harris, and J. K. Simmons. Following the events of Spider-Man 2, as Peter Parker has managed to finally handle his personal life as a college student and photographer with his dual life as the masked vigilante: Spider-Man, along with balancing a blossoming relationship with Mary Jane Watson, he encounters and is bonded with a mysterious extraterrestrial symbiote, which enhances his super-human abilities and brings out the darker, more repressed side of his personality, while facing off against his former friend: Harry Osborn, who is now a super-human assassin seeking to avenge his father’s death and obsessively hunting down an escaped super-powered convict: Flint Marko, who was the true culprit behind the murder of Peter's father-figure/uncle: Ben Parker.