{"id":10269,"date":"2010-10-14T06:58:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T11:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=10269"},"modified":"2010-10-14T07:01:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T12:01:58","slug":"and-the-spider-man-villain-is-the-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/14\/and-the-spider-man-villain-is-the-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"And The SPIDER-MAN Villain Is &#8211; The Lizard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/RhysIfans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10239\" title=\"RhysIfans\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/RhysIfans-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>Well, it was only a matter of time before we found out, though I didn&#8217;t expect it to happen quite so fast. When it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/11\/rhys-ifans-offered-spider-man-villain\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> at the beginning of the week that Rhys Ifans had been offered the role of the villain of Sony&#8217;s upcoming <strong>Spider-Man<\/strong> reboot, no one knew which villain he would be playing. Now, thanks to the folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/movies\/column-post\/exclusive-sony-new-spider-man-villain-lizard-21693\" target=\"_blank\">The Wrap<\/a>, we know that Spider-Man will be facing off against the Lizard!<\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated, the Lizard is actually biologist Dr. Curt Connor, whose attempt to make a serum replicating a lizard&#8217;s ability to regrow its tail in order to regrow a severed arm results in him changing into a six-foot tall half-man, half-lizard with a penchant for picking fights with a certain wall-crawler.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Lizard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10273\" title=\"Lizard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Lizard-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s no word yet as to how close the screenplay will follow the comics origin or if they&#8217;ll try and tie it in with Peter Parker&#8217;s own transformation into Spider-Man by having both a lizard and a spider get doses of radiation but Peter&#8217;s mutation doesn&#8217;t turn out as bad as Connor&#8217;s. Sure it sounds like a crappy idea, but this is Sony we&#8217;re talking about. Remember, they&#8217;re the ones who forced Raimi to include Venom in his third Spider-Man film, a move which unbalanced the film to a harmful degree.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of this news, though, I have to feel a bit sorry for Dylan Baker, who had played Dr. Curt Connors in two of Sam Raimi&#8217;s three <strong>Spider-Man<\/strong> films. Although his character never underwent the transformation into the Lizard, it was obvious that Raimi was establishing the character to be used in a later sequel in a larger capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Well, it was only a matter of time before we found out, though I didn&#8217;t expect it to happen quite so fast. When it was announced at the beginning of the week that Rhys Ifans <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/14\/and-the-spider-man-villain-is-the-lizard\/\" title=\"And The SPIDER-MAN Villain Is &#8211; The Lizard!\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[2394,2197,2809],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"category-news","9":"tag-marc-webb","10":"tag-rhys-ifans","11":"tag-spider-man-reboot"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10269"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=10269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}