Determined to get every surface detail correct, from villain casting to a great-looking suit to a Mary Jane that looks like a person (don’t you dare start dumping on Shailene Woodley- get that shit out of my face), Marc Webb continues to make great decisions about how his film will look and sound.
The latest? Chris Cooper is coming onboard as Norman Osborne.
It’s a tough gig, following up Willem Dafoe’s touched, amazing performance as the Green Goblin across Raimi’s trilogy, but Cooper can do crazy and quietly menacing with the best of them. I can’t imagine they’re going to cram a full-on Green Goblin into this film as well, but the planted seeds should be well-performed.
In any event, we still have no substantive reason to believe that things like a coherent, interesting script will be in place, but everything else just keeps getting better.
Source | THR
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I’m sure Chris Cooper can pull this off better than Dafoe did, who failed to convince me that he was ever NOT crazy.
*dresses in Goblin suit*
“Ok Peterrrrrrrrr…. MANIACAL LAAAAAUGH MANIACAL LAAAAAAAUGH…”
What’s your name? Will you give yourself to this pro-…. Wait. What? Peter Parker? Not Kenneth Kitsom? Not Jason Bourne? What planet am I on?
This is great great news. The cast can’t get any better and I really hope that Webb is building towards a Sinister Six. Am I the only person who thinks Patton Oswald would make a fantastic Dr. Octopus?
Biffspitoff, Of course the cast could get better. Recast…Mary Jane! Chris Cooper should be a great Norman Osborne. I hope he is not…Iron Goblin in this.
I didn’t care for Iron Goblin either Duke. What I dislike even more is the Ultimate version of Goblin. I always thought that it would have been cool to have Norman’s face actually deforms to the point where it looks like the mask from the comics. He could wear a Norman Osborn mask to cover up his real face. I take Renn’s side about Ms.Woodley and as Mary Jane she will do just fine. Fairly sure they’ll do something different and I’m looking forward to it.
I’m a bit confused, you wanted Norman to transform into the Goblin. . . but you didn’t like the Ultimate version of Goblin? Was he too Hulk-like?
What about the Spider-Man Noir version? Where he’s naturally all scaly but wears a human mask. They could change it so he became scaly through an accident and then wears fake skin (of course, then I guess they’d just be ripping off ANOTHER Raimi movie).
After seeing Chris Cooper rap to Muppets, I think he can do anything.
I mean having Osborn’s face actually mutate into something ugly and gross like in the Noir version (which was great btw) makes more sense. And yeah, the Ultimate one is too “Hulk-y” and when Rami was doing it it would have been a nice little nod to Mr. Durant. And imagine a scene with Harry when his Norman mask slips a little or something. It just seems more natural to have Osborn deteriorate because of the serum then to wear a rubber mask. It actually seems they might be going this way considering the way they handled Connors. I just don’t like the muscle-bound, fireball shooting Goblin. At all.
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