Sam Raimi, Director of all movies in the Spiderman franchise, spoke in the latest issue of Empire magazine and told them who he’d like to be the featured nemesis of Peter Parker’s alter ego in Spider-Man 4.
“I like it in the Marvel comics when Spider-Man fights Morbius,” said Raimi. “He’s really cool. A vampire! I like that combination of superhero plus supernatural.”
After Spider-Man 3, it was assumed by many that The Lizard would play a major role if there was to be another sequel as he was featured as an important secondary character in the movie playing a mentor-type role to Peter Parker in that film.
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It would make sense to see The Lizard and Morbius as the two villains as they would work well together in the same film having had quite a bit of history together in the Spider-Man comics. On top of that, they share obvious similarities: Both are/were doctors, both work with different animals for their experiments and both achieved power from the same method.
Dr. Curt Connors (The Lizard) had his arm amputated due to an injury sustained by a blast while being a military surgeon. Later in life he studied the limb-regenerative capabilities of lizards and long story short, he turned into a humanoid-lizard hybrid.
Dr. Michael Morbius on the other hand, was a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who suffered from a rare blood disease. Using experiments involving vampire bats and electroshock therapy, he ended up with super strength some side-effects similar to that of Vampirism and now he must drink blood from his victims.
I think this is a great idea for the next Spider-Man movie and if done right, can make up for the mess that was Spider-Man 3. This time they can focus on two characters and the film can be darker-themed with the nature of the characters involved. That being said, I’m getting a little tired of all of the Spidey villains partly redeeming themselves at the end and not being truly bad. That applies for both of these characters who are not entirely bad guys.
We should also not forget that Vampirism is definitely a current hot topic with the success of the Twilight books and movie which is turning into a series of films as well as the True Blood HBO series which is pre-production for a second season.
What do you think of The Lizard and Morbius making their big screen debuts?
Spider-Man 4 brings together Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi yet again, and is expected to hit theatres in 2011.
Source: /Film
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cheese guys, they`re just making a movie, this is just a world, now really, do you really want to just leave something that you have never got to see before and see those other villains? you have lived so long, with so many journeys in life and you got to explore the past and the long-observed physical features occupying this earth, so don`t you want something new to get added to your imagination for once? when, when will you ever get summoned by the fact that you want to see something more reputated, supreme and exciting, usu. like these 2? why do we love Spiderman? because he is a very sensitive, believable, intamate character with the perfect kind of interesting abilities to walk on walls, websling and trap thugs in webs, imagine if there was someone in your city who had these abilities. if you saw this occuring and you feel like there`s something revolving around your mind what would you know you would want the best for to make the reality air to refresh and clean the cap of the thing containing all of your aspects? come on, Venom only sucked cuz he didn`t fit with those 2 other villains, Sandman and new goblin. but why not use them in Spiderman 5? they should be able to get the story straight, and the effects and ratio of the camera zooms can`t be the trouble becuz they`ve done this before with so many characters even more descriptive than these 2. although shouldn`t they hire people to help them with the costume making?
YEAH I WANT TO SEE THOSE MORE SYMBIOTES BUT WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO??????????
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, WHY ISN`T ANYBODY ELSE COMMENTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by the way, Topher Grace is 5`11″, or rounded to 5`11″ but really like 5`10.75″, come on that`s not so bad. i mean sure Venom was like huge and buffed but come`on.
Alright i realized that the fact that Venom was in it to make it 3 villains was the reason why they had to make Sandman not ACTUALLY a bad guy, AND that caused most of the fightscenes to be kind of short.
And i have to admit, i guess after all SM2 wasn`t that bad. I`ve been watching it lately, and actually, as a matter of fact, it was great! I used to think Doc Ock was one of the more weaker villains but i heard once that each of his arms weighs a ton. That makes sense cuz he`s DOCTOR OCTOPUS, and an octopus`s arms DEFINITELY weighs more than a ton! But if he was only as strong as i thought he was i would`ve much rather preferred him in the first movie and Green Goblin in the second movie. The first movie was kind of early for the Green Goblin, i thought.
But not ALL of the fightscenes in Spiderman 3 were terrible!!!!!!! At least the first fightscene with Peter and Harry was cool!!! I thought that was the best fightscene in the franchise even though Spiderman 2, i admit, was the best. That fight with the 2 friends was WAY better than the fights with SM and GG1 in SM1. For me,(a huge Spiderman fan) the first movie could`ve been ALOT better as an intro to the series.
And since i keep hearing that they don`t have enough energy to keep doing more than one villain, even though i`m not sure if it would keep me 100% satisfied, i`d rather just have Lizard alone. What, does Lizard NOT have a story without Kraven? Ok, if the Kraven/Lizard is as cool as people say, then guess i wouldn`t mind launching a shot for it into the hoops. But wait, that`s 2 villains, although Kraven doesn`t really count as a villain and since they both have a story together i don`t really think they would run out of energy to fit them both in, also if this story is as good as suspected then i think it`d keep me 100% satisfied for later movies.
Oh, and listen, if Morbius isn`t a real Vampire enemy, then i`ll just say that he`s an OK choice but just not all of a worthy choice. I heard lately that they decided not to use him, though.
Oh and lately i`ve been thinking about what people have been saying that Venom and Carnage aren`t the only villains and that there are so many other villains out there, so i guess when i said that they`re ORIGINAL i don`t think i really meant that they`re ORiginal, i think i just meant that like pretty much everything else we`ve seen on screen before they aren`t ANYTHING like these two villains. It`s hard to explain what i mean by that, but anyway, i still want the return of Venom and Carnage in the franchise that TOBEY MAGUIRE is in. Maybe they can use those villains in the next franchise.
Oh wait, do i mean UNORIGINAL? sorry. oh wait, i think that`s what you meant too 492.
However, not doing any more symbiotes after the way the story was developed in SM3 would be COMPLETELY AWKWARD!!!!!!
Since it made Peter turn evil and then he blew it up to get rid of it, Carnage is the way it`s supposed to go, also due to the fact that Spiderman vs. Venom was a big battle. It`s supposed to come as a surprise that symbiote`s aren`t dead, also if they`re not gonna do CaRNAGE then how it would it make sense to have another SM film when Venom was ALREADY IN SM3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the final movie(SM5) Spiderman has to have his biggest battle so Carnage is the ONLY way for that to happen and it`s not like they DON`T have a story, they have ways of handling these villains, EVEN if they were alone in SM5 it`d still WRECK THE SERIES???????!!!!!!!! And even if the sample of Venom is dead they still have to mention it bc who`ll know what happened to it but for them to mention it they HAVE to have a story with the symbiotes…
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