I apologize for the JJ discussion but it'd be nice to at least announce who Felicity will be. It's like "SIN CITY 2" right now... Robert Rodriguez keeps gathering up different actors for roles but they're undisclosed or top-secret. I'd rather know who is playing who then being left in the dark.
If she's Betty Brant then a lot of these people on here thinking this movie is going to be "villain overkill" will rest a little easier, but if she's Black Cat I can see these anti-Marc Webb folks' enmity will grow even more. Personally, I still say and believe that there were some poor editing choices in "ASM" but it's still a well-scripted, acted, and directed comic book movie. I still think "Spider-Man 3" is the worse of the worse because you could tell there were too many cooks in the kitchen adding in last-minute ingredients; too much studio intrusion and meddling and that's why the movie failed. I also feel Sam Raimi used up the two best characters in Spider-Man's rogues gallery that he ultimately felt he had no one left. While a visually stunning character, Sandman had little to do, and the movie should've just been Venom and Harry as the villains.
Now, to many Rhino is just a thug who crashes into things and is a bit of a doofus, but I like that Marc Webb, as he's doing with Electro, is trying to make these characters less one-dimensional bad guys, but have layers to them. Obviously, I don't want like the Raimi films where every supervillain has to relate to or have some correlation with Peter Parker--- we've seen that TOO MANY times, but I would like to at least see either both men as Oscorp scientists, or people who wanted to change the face of the company and the world, and both got shafted by Oscorp. Maybe in the beginning, Alex O'Hirn is a Russian mob boss and Spider-Man disrupts an arms deal of his, and Alex escapes. Norman, being the shadowy character he is, comes to him with an offer to get back at Spider-Man. Alex accepts the deal and becomes Rhino.
If you add Black Cat into the mix then I guess the only way I see it working is if Felicia Hardy's father owes money to O'Hirn and dons the skintight catsuit and robs banks to pay off his debts, or she is an associate of O'Hirn's and they rob banks together--- sort of like after "Batman Begins" all of the freaks started coming out of the woodwork ala Joker in "The Dark Knight" and Catwoman and Bane in "The Dark Kight Rises." So, all of sudden New York is being overrun by costumed villains and then you have J.Jonah Jameson and the Daily Bugle blaming Spider-Man for bringing in these menaces and even lying to the public that Spider-Man is in cahoots with them. The N.Y.P.D.'s alliance with Spider-Man would also be tested. But then you also got the triple-love-triangle thing again that hurt Raimi's films.
I'm sure they can make it work but the movie has to at the very least be 2 hours and 20 minutes or 2 and half just to fit in everything. Although, more than likely, Aunt May and Mary Jane's scenes will probably get the least amount of screentime.
