As of last week, we officially have our Director (500 Days Of Summer’s Marc Webb), our Gwen Stacy (Zombieland’s Emma Stone), and our Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Social Network’s Andrew Garfield) locked in for the upcoming untitled Spider-Man reboot from Sony Pictures. Now, word is coming in that Welsh actor Rhys Ifans has been cast as the film’s unnamed villain.
It’s been said that Ifans’ most popular role was alongside Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in 1999’s Notting Hill, but fans of cheesy genre comedies remember him from such fare as Little Nicky, The Replacements, and Pirate Radio. Now Ifans is taking on more of a colorful role as he battles with Garfield’s Spider-Man in the upcoming reboot.
The film is said to have little-to-no correlation with the previous Sam Raimi trilogy and will reboot the entire franchise for a whole new audience. As we said, Ifans may be locked into the film, but Sony is keeping a pretty tight lid on which exact villain we can see him as.
Who would you cast Rhys Ifans as? Could he out-goblin Willem Defoe’s Green Goblin? Or is it time that Electro finally makes it to the silver screen?
Sound off and let us know what you think. Spectacular Spider-Man (tentative title) is currently slated for a July 3rd release date in 2012.
Anmoldeep Chahal
October 14, 2010 at 4:40 pmI honestly see Rhys Ifans as Carnage cause he has that crazy look as Celeset Kassidy. I don’t even know if he will do good as Shocker or not. I’m just going to leave it in the director’s hand. Whatever villain they choose for Ifans, better be a bad ass villain and he better do a good ass job as that villain. No joke. My number one favorite superhero is Spider-Man, my second one is Iron Man, and I don’t know my third one yet.
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