Thomas Haden Church/Spider-Man 3 rumors [Archive]

Mar 25th, 2005, 01:27 PM

So, apparently the web's abuzz with the rumor/fact(?) that Thomas Haden Church is playing "the" villain in the third Spider-Man movie. A lot of people seem to be convinced this villain is Venom, but when you look at the guy you can pretty much rule that out, right?

http://www.tvtome.com/images/people/1/2/88-9385-sm.jpg

Not exactly buff like Eddie Brock, let alone Venom. I'm assuming the foundations for a Venom story might be laid in the coming movie, but a different villain's going to appear first. Who could it be?

Stiltman?

Sam

Mar 25th, 2005, 01:32 PM

Carnage. :eek

But I know in the comic book that Venom came first.

But that guy kind of looks like a guy who would play Carnage. :(

sports

Mar 25th, 2005, 01:40 PM

http://spiderman.sonypictures.com/

Click on ''Daily Bugle'' or...

Thomas Haden Church, who was most recently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Sideways, has been cast as Spider-Man's new archenemy in the next chapter of the Spider-Man® adventure, it was announced by director Sam Raimi and producers Laura Ziskin and Marvel Studios' Avi Arad.

:( I want to see Venom and Carnage team up and open up a can of whoop-ass on Spiderman and I want 6 films, not just 3.

He's too old to play Venom or Carnage.

Mad Melvin

Mar 25th, 2005, 02:23 PM

I´m guessing that the villain for the next movie is electro. Thomas Haden kinda reminds me of Sandman though. :/

Spectre X

Mar 25th, 2005, 02:58 PM

Well, Raimi detests Venom, so it probably won't be him.

Sandman or Electro could go, though.

Emu

Mar 25th, 2005, 02:59 PM

Venom is the only thing that could make the next spiderman movie watchable. :(

executioneer

Mar 25th, 2005, 03:33 PM

mysterio! :x

Schimid

Mar 25th, 2005, 06:12 PM

I don't know, I think he looks like a perfect Venom. Maybe that's just me.

I wanna see Mysterio as his next villain. Preferably, Rey.

ArrowX

Mar 25th, 2005, 06:21 PM

Fuck no man if they cleaned him up a little he could be the doc that becomes lizard? I think Mysterio would rock ass. If they mak him HobbGoblin I'll kill someone. who the fuck is going to team up with Teh new GG?

pjalne

Mar 25th, 2005, 06:27 PM

EDIT: Nevermind

thebiggameover

Mar 25th, 2005, 06:55 PM

Thomas Haden kinda reminds me of Sandman though. :/

thats what im thinking....

or maybe boomerang... :lol

darkvare

Mar 25th, 2005, 08:40 PM

Well, Raimi detests Venom, so it probably won't be him.

Sandman or Electro could go, though.
and i think they dont have rights either

ziggytrix

Mar 25th, 2005, 08:43 PM

how could they have the rights to spiderman and not be able to get the rights to a particular spiderman villan???

Chojin

Mar 25th, 2005, 09:11 PM

Don't mentally tax him - He's an ICP fan.

N00bKill3R

Mar 25th, 2005, 10:07 PM

Fuck no man if they cleaned him up a little he could be the doc that becomes lizard?
They already had that guy in the second movie, he was the teacher with the one arm... fag.

ArrowX

Mar 25th, 2005, 11:29 PM

I forgot about that thanx for reminding me.
I think they should have Campbell there dressed as a frenchman and Cll him the Dastardly Chin and He can have conversations with his chin like in those old Kraft Dinner Commercials.

Don't mentally tax him - He's an ICP fan.
and mexican

DeadKennedys

Mar 26th, 2005, 12:09 AM

He looks exactly like Venom's host. Besides, Venom's a badass, who wouldn't pay to see him?

Immortal Goat

Mar 26th, 2005, 12:40 AM

I don't know, I think he looks like a perfect Venom. Maybe that's just me.

I wanna see Mysterio as his next villain. Preferably, Rey.
It won't be mysterio, I can guarentee it. They put him in the Spiderman 2 game, and he was a complete puss.

ziggytrix

Mar 26th, 2005, 12:41 AM

no one has mentioned the vulture... is he just way too gay for the big screen?

ArrowX

Mar 26th, 2005, 12:44 AM

I'm pretty sure Vulture Scorpion and Rhino were in teh Games of the Movie so theyre out. That sucks. I would pay motherfucking moneys for a movie with the Insideous 6 :( that would be the TITS!

ItalianStereotype

Mar 26th, 2005, 01:04 AM

I want to see Venom and Carnage team up and open up a can of whoop-ass on Spiderman and I want 6 films, not just 3.

have you ever even HEARD of comic books?

Mike P

Mar 27th, 2005, 11:36 PM

If that that guy buffed up and dyed his hair, he would be a good Eddie Brock. I'm sure if someone hits him a few times with a board, he'd make a good Venom, as well.

I remember Raimi saying something about wanted to have the Sandman in a movie, because he would look cool to do. The only problem I have with that is that Sandman is basically a thug with superpowers, and can't carry a whole movie on his own.

N00bKill3R

Mar 27th, 2005, 11:47 PM

The only problem I have with that is that Sandman is basically a thug with superpowers, and can't carry a whole movie on his own.
Double villian anyone?

Mike P

Mar 28th, 2005, 01:33 AM

The only problem I have with that is that Sandman is basically a thug with superpowers, and can't carry a whole movie on his own.
Double villian anyone?

That would work. Hm. I think the Green Goblin and the Sandman were on a trio in the comics. I'll try to find out if they were, and who was on it. Because if they did that, well, that would be pretty cool.

Ah, and if they wrote Spider-Man like Spider-Man (ie- wisecracks) and got a better actress to play Mary Jane Watson.

Zomboid

Mar 28th, 2005, 03:32 AM

Does no one remember batman forever and batman and robin? I'm sorry, but having two villains is just asking for bad luck and people to remember the batman series going downhill at #3.

executioneer

Mar 28th, 2005, 05:17 AM

batman returns had two villains too :/ or did catwoman not count or something

Mar 28th, 2005, 06:34 AM

Two villains could work, and I think is going to be inevitable. They just have to think it through. The Riddler and Two-Face had nothing in common, and Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze even less. They could either pick a few guys who've actually worked together against Spider-Man in the comics, or who don't work together and just fight Spider-Man on their own. Like the Rocket Racer and Big Wheel.

Mad Melvin

Mar 28th, 2005, 08:35 AM

I think the second villain will be that Harry Osbourne kid. Hobgoblin?

ziggytrix

Mar 28th, 2005, 11:30 AM

in the comics hobgoblin was someone else, just a crook who robbed the green goblin's caches. harry was just the green goblin II. :P

and he's gotta be a villian in the next one, they spent too much time building that up in spiderman2 not to run with it in 3.

Mar 28th, 2005, 11:34 AM

I could go with Harry becoming the Hobgoblin. Mostly just because I want to see Hobbie in a movie.

ItalianStereotype

Mar 28th, 2005, 01:34 PM

um, sinister six anyone?

Zomboid

Mar 28th, 2005, 05:44 PM

batman returns had two villains too :/ or did catwoman not count or something

I was a little tipsy when I posted that. Not drunk, but apparently intoxicated enough to not remember her. Anyway, it was alright with 2, but when they had the riddler and two face it blew ass >:

ArrowX

Mar 28th, 2005, 07:06 PM

From all the shit the IMDB dorks ar throwing around it sounds like Venom and Man-Wolf :(

El Blanco

Mar 28th, 2005, 10:26 PM

I hope they write a good story that has villain that will fit and not say just make some cookie cutter plot and crowbar two villains into it.

I've seen too many movies based on liscenced properties do that shit.

pjalne

Mar 29th, 2005, 08:51 AM

From all the shit the IMDB dorks ar throwing around it sounds like Venom and Man-Wolf :(

There has NEVER been real information on the IMDb boards.

mburbank

Mar 29th, 2005, 01:19 PM

Did you know that when Sandman made his first appearance as an FF villian his name was "Paste Pot Pete"?

I'm NOT making that up.

Mar 29th, 2005, 01:37 PM

Didn't Paste Pot Pete become the Trapster?

ziggytrix

Mar 29th, 2005, 05:23 PM

a brief google search indicates that max is getting senile :(

James

Mar 30th, 2005, 08:18 PM

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news05/050329c.php

Finally, AICN reports that multiple spies at Sony have confirmed that Thomas Hayden Church will indeed be playing the villain The Sandman. There's apparently a ton of Sandman conceptual art all over the Spidey-offices. The character was a prison escapee hiding out at an atomic testing facility when a explosion goes off. His molecules fuse with sand, giving him essentially shape shifting ability along with various other skills.

Mike P

Mar 30th, 2005, 10:03 PM

Did you know that when Sandman made his first appearance as an FF villian his name was "Paste Pot Pete"?

I'm NOT making that up.

Trapster was Paste Pot Pete, Sandman has always been Sandman, except when he mixed with Hyrdoman and became Mudman.

darkvare

Mar 30th, 2005, 10:15 PM

http://www.spiderfan.org/characters/images/black_tarantula/bt2.jpg
black tarantula would have been cool. He beated spider-man up. but let him live.

Don't mentally tax him - He's an ICP fan.
and mexican
you have the rights to mock about everything about me but dont mock my nationality please. >:

Emu

Mar 30th, 2005, 10:27 PM

Black Tarantula is cool, but not popular enough for the kiddies to recognize, I think. They'll go with someone who the general public can identify. I'm betting on Hobgoblin as being the main villain and maybe some Venom references thrown in.

ziggytrix

Mar 31st, 2005, 09:08 AM

Don't mentally tax him - He's an ICP fan.
and mexican
you have the rights to mock about everything about me but dont mock my nationality please. >:[/quote]

You can pretty safely ignore anything arrowx ever says and not worry about missing anything. I think maybe 1 out of his 3000 posts was even remotely funny or insightful.