{"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 – The Lizard!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Well, it was only a matter of time before we found out, though I didn’t expect it to happen quite so fast. When it was announced<\/a> at the beginning of the week that Rhys Ifans had been offered the role of the villain of Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man<\/strong> reboot, no one knew which villain he would be playing. Now, thanks to the folks over at The Wrap<\/a>, we know that Spider-Man will be facing off against the Lizard!<\/p>\n

For the uninitiated, the Lizard is actually biologist Dr. Curt Connor, whose attempt to make a serum replicating a lizard’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

\"\"<\/a>There’s no word yet as to how close the screenplay will follow the comics origin or if they’ll try and tie it in with Peter Parker’s own transformation into Spider-Man by having both a lizard and a spider get doses of radiation but Peter’s mutation doesn’t turn out as bad as Connor’s. Sure it sounds like a crappy idea, but this is Sony we’re talking about. Remember, they’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

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’s three 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":"

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