The Amazing Spider-Man Official Villian Casting & Discussion Thread

[TheWrathOfGod]

Bruce will play Shemp #1/ comedic relief character.

 

[TheWrathOfGod]

I'd be happy with Kraven and the Lizard. But Kraven needs to blow his brains out ala last hunt.

 

[Anubis]

He'll play a Major, in the army.

 

[Retroman]

True.

And may I remember that we got a plot summary and a Q&A more than a year in advance of S-M3 here on these boards?

Oh yes, you're right, i remember that now.

IMDB said that Rosemary Harris would be playing Aunt Carnage in SM3.

Take it with a grain of salt.

 

[WillardNation]

I would be totally cool with Clive Owen as Kraven. But throw the Lizard in there too.

However, I am not cool with Skrulls being the villains in Avengers.

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

^^ Lol, agreed.

 

[LightningFlash]

Wonder how much screen time Aunt Carnage would've been given..

 

[colonel sanders]

Wonder how much screen time Aunt Carnage would've been given..

Well since Venom didn't get more than twenty minutes, I would imagine not very much.

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

yessir!!



plus, bruce campbell WILL be mysterio in SM5, fox is interested in making epic movies, not cash, and the hype is all a dream.

 

[Hectorminator]

I'd be happy with Kraven and the Lizard. But Kraven needs to blow his brains out ala last hunt.

Word.

 

[Silver Knight]

Lizard or bust for me.

 

[Rodrigo90]

I dont want Kraven to be a "nice guy gone bad". They have eliminated all evil aspects from the bad guys in these movies. Kraven in my vision is a cold blooded, mass murdering, psychotic hunter with zero empathy. He lives only to hunt,kill and to claim the head of what (or who) he hunts as his trophy. His hunt is his life. We have no insight into his backstory,he just is "The Hunter". He will go at any length to get his trophy and eliminate anything that gets in his way. He is pure evil.

Lizards goal in the movie should be to turn everyone in NYC into Lizards.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I would like a little more development for Kraven than that, but not in any way should he be a "nice guy gone bad." I always liked that he was descended from Russian nobility. That to me means he has a certain arrogance towards "peasants." Connors and Spider-Man are nobodies to him, so what does it matter if they die during the course of the hunt?

Lizard wanting to turn NYC's residents into reptiles is a little corny to me but he needs a better scheme than just being a mindless animal that eats people (although I want him to do that, too.)

 

[chaseter]

I have said that too. Please no Lizard wanting to turn everyone into Lizards. That is just too dumb. I would just like to see a slow transformation with Connors and then finally him losing his mind and becoming a beast that will kill people. I just want him in his lab trying to cure himself...not in the sewer trying to create a race of Lizard people.

So:

- Connors takes the serum and his arm grows back overnight.
- Connors starts getting scales.
- Connors starts to change more, starts missing classes.
- Connors is now a full Lizard but retains his mental abilities. He is now missing and visits his house at night but is afraid to talk to his wife.
- Connors is now a full blown monster and attacks his wife/family/people on the street. He drags him/them/etc...down to the sewers to eat.

 

[Rodrigo90]

He does have development. If I were in charge of the movie. His backstory would be set in scenes in Africa. A village is being terrorised by a pack of Lions and he kills each one single handedly. He kills the local police for hunting him. He travels to NY to hunt and kill the Lizard. Spider-Man gets in his way and vows to have both their heads as trophies. After losing battle with Spidey, Kraven tracks him down at his home. He attacks Peter, Aunt May and kills Gwen Stacy. He eventually resorts to asking his GF Calypso for superhuman potions and the more he consumes,it makes him more powerful,but at the cost of his sanity. I would like him to be like the Joker with his straightforward motive and unpredictability.

 

[spider-neil]

I have said that too. Please no Lizard wanting to turn everyone into Lizards. That is just too dumb. I would just like to see a slow transformation with Connors and then finally him losing his mind and becoming a beast that will kill people. I just want him in his lab trying to cure himself...not in the sewer trying to create a race of Lizard people.

So:

- Connors takes the serum and his arm grows back overnight.
- Connors starts getting scales.
- Connors starts to change more, starts missing classes.
- Connors is now a full Lizard but retains his mental abilities. He is now missing and visits his house at night but is afraid to talk to his wife.
- Connors is now a full blown monster and attacks his wife/family/people on the street. He drags him/them/etc...down to the sewers to eat.

the transformation could still happen as you discribe but his ultimate end game could be to pollute the water system to change new york into monsters. it would certainly make for a grand climax pretty much like doc ock wanting todestroy the city.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Lizard or bust for me.

Dude, Kraven won't be in the movie without Lizard. Chill out. Unless you want one villain only.

 

[Oscorp]

Maybe it would be good if we get Electro and Vulture / Electro and Mysterio Electro / Lizard etc. because that is something we wouldn't expect. Thing is, with Kraven and Lizard, the storyline is so obvious, it may not even be fun at all when it finally arrives because we've already found out the whole story long before. Maybe that would end up in a disappointment.

Maybe a stupid point by me, but I just want to prepare myself for some surprises and not be disappointed if Lizard and/or Kraven is not in the movie (even though I'd prefer a Lizard/Electro combo).

 

[anrrd_2]

^its def a possibility, though i think it just as much to do with the execution of the story as it does the story itself. If the story is done correctly and touches the audience on an emotional level, we wont care that we know. PLus, you have to consider that a large percentage of the audience probably hasn't read the comic before... I wouldn't be too worries about it. i would worry more about being force fed more dancing emo-peter and corny villians with minimal character development.

 

[Venom 1988]

the transformation could still happen as you discribe but his ultimate end game could be to pollute the water system to change new york into monsters. it would certainly make for a grand climax pretty much like doc ock wanting todestroy the city.

I'd only like to see this if the chemicals that the Lizard was releasing was not the correct formula but rather toxins that could potentially kill people. It would give him another sort of "Brundlefly" quality, that what he thinks hes doing seems logical to himself but because of the Lizard persona he doesn't make the correct formula.

 

[TheVelvetOnion]

Heres a thought... If Bruce Campbell plays an actual villian... these means any future movie past the next one would be campbelless... unless Campbell's character will be in the next 3 sequels...

If i had to guess i would possibly say Campbell is going to play the Chameleon. the reason i say this is because there is two possible villians he could play

Chameleon being one the other Mysterio... but if we look at the overal picture Mysterio is only good for one movie, where as Chameleon has a number of possibilities.

1. is connected to Kraven
2. was spidermans first villian... and according to bruce campbell his character is the only one to defeat him.
3. can be a villian that never really disappears. like he is caught and in prision... there is more endless possibilities with Chameleon than there is with Mysterio...

although out of the two i would prefer Mysterio... but think about it logically

Spiderman 4 - Lizard, Kraven & cameo Chameleon...
Spiderman 5 - Chameleon, Electro
Spiderman 6 - Mysterio, Rhino & Chameleon (Cameo) from prision...

 

[FaT_tONle]

Maybe it would be good if we get Electro and Vulture / Electro and Mysterio Electro / Lizard etc. because that is something we wouldn't expect. Thing is, with Kraven and Lizard, the storyline is so obvious, it may not even be fun at all when it finally arrives because we've already found out the whole story long before. Maybe that would end up in a disappointment.

Maybe a stupid point by me, but I just want to prepare myself for some surprises and not be disappointed if Lizard and/or Kraven is not in the movie (even though I'd prefer a Lizard/Electro combo).

I think you are being a little too overdramatic. I mean these movies are formulaic to begin with. We pretty much knew what was going to happen in the first three films anyhow. Bad guy gets evil powers, kidnaps the girl, Parker has relationship problems, villain becomes good at then end, Spiderman learns a new lesson. Don't expect them to deviate too much from that, and I ain't being sarcastic.

 

[GoldGoblin]

When Electro zaps Dr.Connors by accident during a fight with spidey and Dr.Connors serum in his body mutates and he becomes the Lizard,Electro then takes some of the formula dumps it into the drinking water of NY and threatens to turn the citizens into lizard monsters...

 

[Spider-Vader]

That one is better than all of your other ideas. But the drinking water thing is sort of lame, he should kidnap people & do it.