With Jamie Foxx as Electro and Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus reportedly on board, this long-talked about movie might soon become an (alternate) reality
Another 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. 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.
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. 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. 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.