Thursday, July 18, 2013

SDCC '13: Foxx As Electro Footage & Jones Role Revealed?

The people attending the panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con-this year will get a good first look at footage of Jamie Foxx as bad guy Electro in Marc Webb's "The Amazing Spider-Man 2".


However, in the first tease for a SDCC panel, Sony Pictures has released a quick footage sneak peek ahead of the Friday afternoon presentation.  Can a teaser trailer be far behind--perhaps online by this weekend?



In related news, co-star Felicity Jones (Like Crazy), has seemingly confirmed what her role will be. Jones tells View London: "It’s all quite shrouded in secrecy, but I’m the Goblin’s girlfriend - I’m in a relationship with him, and his accomplice. I’m on the dark side."

Andrew Garfield will return as Peter Parker and Emma Stone is gonna reprise her role as Gwen Stacy. Do these recent set pics confirm that the classic story The Night Gwen Stacy Died is part of the film? For the record Stone endorsed the idea last August when The Amazing Spider-Man was still in theaters...

Dane DeHaan ("Chronicle") has won the role of Harry Osborn Osborn of course is Peter Parker's best friend and eventual enemy who was played by James Franco previously. Paul Giamatti plays the villain, the Rhino Chris Cooper has been cast as Norman Osborn--who eventually becomes Spidey's number one foe--The Green Goblin--The character was played previously by Willem Dafoe. Former Office star B.J. Novak has an unspecified role in the film.

Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner are writing the script based on a previous draft by James Vanderbilt.

Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach will produce.

The new film is now in production to meet its May 2nd 2014 release date.

Both The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man 4 already have release dates.

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