Hey Spidey fans! After confirming that Lizard is a sure villain in the Spider-man reboot, here is another villain confirmation brought to us by IGN.
Heat Vision is reporting that Irrfan Khan (Slumdog Millionaire) will be playing a villain named Van Atter in the soon-to-be-shooting Spider-Man film. Rhys Ifans, of course, has already been cast as the Lizard.
Who the heck is Van Atter, you ask? Good question. We here at IGN know us some Spider-Man, but Van Atter doesn’t ring a bell. Badass Digest thinks they might know who it is, however. Brace yourself.
“The Proto-Goblin was a character who appeared in one issue of a Spider-Man comic ever, a Flashback issue (a stunt when Marvel told ‘untold tales’ of characters),” explains Badass. The link being, apparently, that the character’s real name was Nels van Adder. “The basic story is that he was an employee who was tested on by Norman Osborn before Osborn became the Goblin. George Stacey plays a role in that story; the reveal that Peter’s parents were spies came from another Flashback issue. Could Webb’s Spider-Man be pulling heavily from a couple of weird 1990s comic books?”
Badass mentions Peter’s folks because they’re also in the movie: Campbell Scott (Damages) and Julianne Nicholson (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) are in talks to play the doomed Parkers, who after their deaths leave the future Spidey to be raised by Aunt May and Uncle Ben. But still… Norman Osborn isn’t in this new movie, right? Or is he…
Oh, and Annie Parisse (Rubicon) has also come onboard as “the villain’s wife.” Which villain? It’s not clear.
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