The news for Spider-Man 4 / The Spidey Reboot has been chugging along pretty promisingly. But today comes a curious bit of casting that makes you wonder how overloaded this script might be.
THR’s Heat Vision reports that Spider-Man 4 has landed Campbell Scott and Julianne Nicholson for the unenviable role of Peter Parker’s parents. You know, the ones that died, and left him an orphan. Since Parker was defined by the sturdy life lessons of his aunt and uncle, it seems like a waste of time, talent, and money to work his parents into the narrative. From what I understand, they don’t even factor into Brian M. Bendis’ Ultimate reboot which is what this movie allegedly draws on.
But an even bigger question mark is raised over the newest villain to the piece. Look not at Spidey’s endless (and awesome) rogue’s gallery. THR says they’ve cast Irrfan Khan in the dastardly role of Van Atter. Who is Van Atter? What are his motives? Why must Spidey fight him? Damned if I know, as he’s not a character that exists in the comics. He may be a combination of a number of villains, but there’s no additional information from THR.
So there you go. Spider-Man’s greatest battle may be with the ghosts of his parents…and Van Atter who preys on them. Or something.
ETA: James Stewart in our comments and Badass Digest both point out that this could be Nels van Adder, the “Proto-Goblin” from one 1990s issue of Spider-Man. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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Spider-Man + Batman = Spatman (boo!)
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/progob.htm
Boooo! Does that mean we'll get Green Goblin in the sequel? That blows, even if they do the badass genetic transformation from Ultimate. Stacy'll die in that one. I just wonder if this means Spidey will end up teaming up with Lizard to take Proto-Goblin down, or vice versa. Either way, laaaame. The best news here is the casting of Cambell Scott, who's fucking awesome. Right on to that.
I'm going to throw out a guess of some sort of riff on Kraven the Hunter.
The actor in the role and how Kraven might work in with the Lizard would make a little sense, I suppose.
Actually in the Ultimate Universe version of Spider-Man, Peter's father, along with the father of Eddie Brock, were scientist's who were working on a symbiote that helped eat away at cancer cells. Of course, they are killed in a plane crash before they could understand what their project was capable of. When Peter meets up with a college age Brock, he discovers that the symbiote only works with Parker DNA, and then the Ultimate Venom is born. If they are using the Ultimate version as a basis I'd assume that Van Atter, who I can't recall being in the Ultimate version, would be a stand in for Norman Osborne and be sort of a business man who maybe had Pete's parents taken out because of his father's work. This could also be a guy Curt Conners works under as well.
The Proto-goblin thing makes sense, especially since Cpt Stacy was involved with the character, at least some what. I'm all for it.
You really have to appreciate the fact that this series does a great job of telling the story of Peter Parker and making him interesting, rather than relying on interesting villains to get people in theaters.
Spiderman will be battling an Iron Maiden CD cover?
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/progob.htm
Here is your movie, read the synopsis
Is this reboot going to be a darker than the previous ones? It would be nice to see a real bad ass full of action Spiderman movie for a change.
Sounds awesome. Erase Spiderman 3 from my brain with something that's actually good please and not just something that makes for a good trailer. NO JAZZ HANDS!
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Don't freak out because "Van Atter" became Proto Goblin in some version of the comics. Van Atter worked for Norman Osboarne. He may be a luckless assistant who gets monsterized before Norman "perfects" the formula to use on hiimself, or he may merely show up as a human, to POSSIBLY show up in sequels as "Protogoblin" while the Norman Osborne (Green Goblin) is the real villain of this. The character to become "The Lizard" showed up in SpiderMan 1, but that didn't mean he was the film's villain. It didn't even mean he'd be the villain for the next two films. So, relax. "Van Atter" being in the movie means little at this point, other than the fact that the writers are skewing towards the 90's comics for inspiration.
I've no faith in this movie, but still I hope that they don't clog it up with goblin melodrama and nonsense. We just had three goddamn films full of hobgoblins and greengoblins! The more I hear about this movie the worse it seems.
What a waste of MONEY, make marvel zombies instead or marvel porn. might as well go for broke
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