The Amazing Spiderman 2 has started
filming this week and is due to be released in the summer of 2014 (on
the 10th anniversary of the sequel no less! Take that, Sam
Raimi! Even though your versions made more money and were more
critically well-received! Ha!) The story will pretty much be
Spiderman doing Spiderman stuff and learning more about his past. Or,
if we learned anything from the first film, promising to learn about
his past but in the end only just hinting at a bunch of stuff that
can be used to draw people into future sequels. While the cast will
more or less stay the same with Andrew Garfield's spot-on portrayal
of Michael Cera portraying Peter Parker, this past week has revealed
some big names for the future villains. The Amazing Spiderman offered
us Rhys Ifans' haunting performance of a scientist who becomes
corrupted after wearing a baggy lizard suit, but the world of
Spiderman is moving on as Jamie Foxx has been confirmed to play
Electro. A guy who does electric stuff. Or something. (Is he going to
charge me $80 to look at my television and tell me I need a new one?
They're the real supervillains!) But much like a Saturday afternoon
infomercial, wait! There's more! Paul Giamatti has recently been
confirmed to be on board the film as The Rhino. Yes that's right,
Jamie Foxx and Paul Giamatti as the villains for the next Spiderman
film. Both have contributed significantly to some of the smarter
films of Hollywood with their spectacular performances as of late.
With the likes of Sundance gem Win Win and newest piece of Tarantino
genius Django Unchained, what better way for these two to progress
their acting abilities than reading lines out while green spandex and a
giant rhino costume? But who are we to dismiss this casting so
early when Alfred Molina took a depart from more dramatic roles and
did a spectacular job as Otto Octavian in Spiderman 2? (Again, thank
goodness the Amazing Spiderman films exist to correct all the
horrible horrible flaws in Sam Raimi's original films.)
But we now have reason to further our
excitement for the film as Danny Devito has been confirmed as of
today that he WILL be in the sequel as none other than the new Doc
Ock himself!
“We were going to include a really
extensive build up to the new Green Goblin with an intricate Oscorp
sub-plot. But one day Danny Devito wandered in out of nowhere and
started waving his arms about while babbling incoherently. Everyone
loved it. It was then and there that I realized THIS is our Doc Ock.”
released in a statement from director Mark Webb this morning.
“I just sorta showed up and now they
got me playing a marine biologist or something.” Devito said this
morning. “I haven't even read the script. Having worked on Always
Sunny, ya just know that improv really works in major comedies like
these. It's mostly just me running in and waving my metal tentacles
around. Sometimes I don't even bother with the costume.”
“When Mark Webb asked me to rewrite
the entire script to fit in Dr. Octopus, I knew I'd have to think
fast to fit the shooting schedule and not destroy the story we've
already developed for months. I think one scene I came up with has
Peter getting a burger or something. He's about to take a bite when
Doctor Octopus (Devito) just runs in laughing before stealing the
burger with one of his tentacles. Peter just sorta shakes his fist at
him and has one of those "well there's $3 down the drain" moments. I dunno, it shows he's there and
that he's not a very nice guy. That's what counts. I guess.”
Revealed Alex Kurtzman, one of the screenwriters.
“It makes about as much sense as me
being in the film.” Paul Giamatti admitted when asked how he felt
about this newest addition.
“It all boils down to two major
points.” Mark Webb declared to all the fans skeptical of this
radical change. “One, Otto is a universal Spiderman villain.
There's a lot of depth to his character that I think Devito can
really tap into and reveal the human side that leads him to his certain actions as a villain. Two, you're going to pay to see it no matter what we
do. Technically we don't have to even try.”
Clearly, we could see that from the
first film.
The Amazing Spiderman 2 will be
released May 4, 2014.
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