Not that we’re complaining – especially if they also bring back the marvellous Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn – but what on earth could be going on here? The obvious answer is that the as-yet-untitled third Marvel-Sony Spider-Man movie ( let’s call it “Spider-Man 3” and hope against the hoodoos) is going to mirror the Oscar-winning animation Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, and delve deeply into the Multiverse concept that has been firmly entrenched in the comic books for decades. Yet, somehow, it now seems to be acceptable to cast villains from entirely different superhero universes in the brave new world of Marvel-Sony Spider-Man films. While Doc Oc was never recast, we got a new Green Goblin and an entirely fresh backstory involving Parker’s father that was never satisfactorily resolved.
The Amazing Spider-Man movies were always intended to be a complete reboot of Peter Parker’s story, to the extent that Webb’s debut 2012 instalment infuriatingly repeated much of the work already carried out in Raimi’s Spider-Man from 2002 – the death of Uncle Ben, that fight with Flash Thompson, etc. Rarely has the idea of superhero movie as epic tragedy worked quite so beautifully, and it is the British actor’s ability to inspire pathos and antipathy that lies at the heart of its brilliance. Not only is Tobey Maguire’s wallcrawler at the peak of his powers, but we get a clever take on the Doc Oc origins story in which Molina’s multi-limbed supervillain is both hateful and sympathetic as the overreaching scientist who finds himself under the control of his own, artificially-intelligent metal limbs.
The former, Sam Raimi-directed sequel is widely considered to be the best of the early Spidey movies, the Empire Strikes Back of its milieu.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the wonderful Alfred Molina, AKA Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 (2004), will be joining Jamie Foxx’s Electro (from 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2) in the forthcoming sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming. A nother week goes by, and yet another fan-favourite Spider-Man supervillain we never thought we’d see again is apparently on their way back to the big screen.
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