OK, we’ve all seen The Amazing Spider-Man, right? Specifically, we’ve all seen the ending cookie. If not, we’ll discuss it below. Heavy, heavy spoilers from this point onwards, folks.
Everybody who doesn’t want to be spoiled out? Yes? Good? Onward.
So, the ending has Curt Connors stuck in a cell. Rhys Ifans has this to say:
Capone: Okay, what do you think about that ending?
RI: Well, Connors is basically locked up in a very high-security mental institution.
Capone: We were debating whether it was a prison or a mental institute.
RI: It’s not a zoo. [laughs] I kept seeing it as maybe a mixture of both. Then a representative from OsCorp appears miraculously in the room. How he gets in there and how he leaves, we don’t know. Maybe we will find out. But it’s not Norman Osborn.
Capone: It’s not? You can say that?
RI: Yeah. But it is someone who is in the employ of Norman Osborn without question.
Capone: Someone we’re familiar with, who we don’t know is employed by Osborn?
RI: Yeah.
So, basically, that leaves us with a pretty short list of Spidey villians who this could actually be. Let’s see here: older gentleman, ties to Norman Osborn, ties to Peter’s parents and their genetics work…
My guess? Professor Miles Warren, aka the Jackal.
If you know the character’s history, it makes sense: Warren goes insane after the death of Gwen Stacy and goes after Spider-Man. Genetics obviously play a pretty heavy role in what Sony’s already pushing as a new trilogy. Warren is a geneticist. We all know Gwen’s going to die. And the movie and the game make a pretty big deal of the whole transgenics thing.
Granted this could be completely derailed by Sony, but it feels about right.
What’s your guess?
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I think it was a psychotic hallucination… Dr. Conner’s isn’t a one and done character and we are probably 2 movies away from the green goblin. If it follows Ultimate world it could have been either Dr. Octavious (a stretch) OR Dr. Edward Brock Sr. this would introduce venom in two as Brock would be the new dr. looking for the cure for the dying Norman Osborn
Long stretch what if… Miles Warren aka the Jackal
I don’t think they’ll do Doc Ock if for no other reason that “Spider-Man 2″ really nailed the character, and Sony probably wants to lock down the rights to as many characters as humanly possible.
Somebody I know is insisting it’s the Chameleon. God, I hope not.
Yeah I have heard that rumor too but he’s the Red Skulls bro… would Sony have the rights to him? I really am leaning towards Eddie Brock Sr. and get Venom into the mix because he is a fan fav., also the rumors of Sony really wanting to have a Venom series of movies, establish him as more of an anti-hero and bust out Carnage.
Why is it that when i see it could be the Jackal, I’m immediately drawn to Family Guy? “Jackal, Jackal, Jackal, it’s a Jackal, Jackal, Jackal”. Maybe I’m just narrow minded…
I always think of that awful Bruce Willis/Richard Gere movie.
Yes, and Richard Gere’s dreadful Irish accent
This could be a stretch, but with the distinct use of lighting as the entrace and exit of the character, my mind has to go to Electro.
That would actually be pretty interesting, although it seems odd they’re making Max Dillon some aging white guy.
Mysterio also would work… would explain how the dude appeared and reappeared and also make the old dude a red herring to us.
*appeared and disappeared.
If they really are going the “Ultimate Route” (whatever the hell that means) my guess is that it is Eddie Brock Sr.
Otherwise, yeah, Jackal is a good theory.
Ok I will stop posting but Filmdrunk posted a link to an interview with Arad Avi where he kind of talked about a possible game changer…
“Arad: Believe it or not, Kingpin was on loan to Daredevil, so again, anything that is part of the Spider-Man Universe or introduced in the Spider-Man Universe–without getting too legal beagle here–is an opportunity, and if we have a story that Kingpin is important, I’m sure we can handle that.”
Jackal? Oh how much I wish this led to the clone saga. Then we get Ben Reilly, and Kane, and then the world collapses in horrible story-telling.
Hey, the sequel could be called the Spectacular Spider-Men!
It makes more sense to have Electro. The guy appeared after lightning and disappeared afterward. Also the Electro is one of Spidermans earliest villains and it would tie spiderman to tony stark because Electro is always stealing from stark. Mystero might work, but why use lightning and not fog or something crazy like that.
if you look at the way the movies themes and its plot focus were chosen i think it suggests that ultimately they are moving towards a mutagenic nightmare somewhere in the series. their main plot topic is really focusing on genetics in both the movie and the game and the idea fits in perfectly with the theme of peter being lost within himself, a theme that was fairly evident in the last movie. also you have the introduction of smythe in the video game that is supposed to pick up in story where the movie left off so i believe he might be the next villain or he is used to bring in the next villain. im just really hoping for the man spider somewhere in the series.