My interest in Spider-Man 3 squashed like…uh, something squashable

Updated on March 22, 2005 By Ken Begg 4 Comments

Rottentomatoes.com reports that Thomas Haden Church has been cast as the villain in the next Spider-Man movie. Good enough.

Then there’s this: “If you read this interview with special effects artist Tim Phoenix, you’ll come across the following passage: “He’s under contract not to talk much about Spider-Man 3, but Phoenix did say that the crew is in the conceptual design process for the villains, who are Man-Wolf and Venom.”

Obviously Church will, if this is accurate, play Venom. As an old-school fan, I couldn’t care less about Venom. And Man-Wolf?! OK, they introduced Jonah Jameson’s kid, the astronaut, in the last film, and he’s Man-Wolf in some of the less inspired comic books, but what a lame villain! Plus, he’s really kind of a knock-off of the Lizard, a classic Spidey foe, and we’ve already met his alter-ego too. So why not bring him in?

I really hope this report is all wrong, but the kids dig Venom (and Carnage), so I’m sure that part will be correct.

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  • Manwolf is one of those Spidey villains that the writers like doing occasionally, but that the vast majority of fans absolutely loathe.

    My only response to this rumor is a resounding, “Whatever.”

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  • Execs at the studio: “Hey, the kids think “Wolverine” is pretty cool. We got anything similar for “Spiderman 3”. “Man-Wolf”, huh? Hmmmm…we’ll see.”

  • John Nowak

    I think that the first two films were good enough that the team has earned some credit — they could announce it’ll be a team-up with Brother Voodoo, and my reaction would be “it’s about time someone did something cool with Brother Voodoo.”