Who Are the 2 Spidey 3 Villians?

[The_Wippuh]

The 2 actors have been unvieled as Topher Grace and Thomas Haden Church.

Grace is known for his work on That 70's Show, but left it after this season's last episode. Church is the hit of every feel good article written about his life from Wings to indie movie gone massive, Sideways.

Here are my guesses.

Grace as Carnage and Church as Venom!

[ludothegreat]

Sandman has been confirmed for one of the villians while Venom is still in the rumor stages.

EDIT: After some more reading up on it I found out that Sandman is unofficialy confirmed. Also Topher Grace is rumored to be playing venom.

[mashie]

Oh no, not one more spider-man film...

[invalid lab]

sandman and venom.

I read up alot on movie sites and it seems the preproduction area for spiderman3 has a few venom busts lying around and recently did some screen tests with sand.

Do the math.

[Dash20]

I think it's a terrible idea to have more than one villain if they're featuring Venom. There's enough backstory to give Venom his own movie (and I"m not talking about the Secret Wars. I'd be perfectly happy with the 90's cartoon origin). I can't really accept the credibility for Sandman either, so hopefully they'll make Venom the focus and Sandman the walking brute. And what is to become of the second Green Goblin? Have they abandoned the idea, or will Harry switch sides last-minute (like he did in the comics)?

I doubt this has any relevance to the movie now, but the newest Spider-Man game seems to have Venom as a main focus. The reason I doubt the connection is because of the cel shading style of the game that makes it so different from the first two. I guess time will tell.

[Malatory]

I thought 3 was to have the Hobgoblin (Not the 2nd Green Goblin). and 4 was to have Venom.

[The Grendel]

I'd rather not see either goblin.
Bringing the goblin back (either green2 or hob) worked fine in the comics and even in the cartoon.

But bringing it back to the big screen would be a BIG mistake, Sure all of the fans who know the story front to back would like it. BUT the movie is targetted at more then just the die hard fans. The average Joe who doesn't know anything other than the movies isn't going to like going back to a similar villain for the movie.

Besides, there are so many different villains to choose from for spiderman. Why go back to something that's allready been done? (yeah yeah, I KNOW there were 3 different goblins: but how many changes do YOU think they could make to it?) I hope they stick to using new characters for the movies, instead of the other Goblins.

-Grendel

[The_Wippuh]

Church does have that look that Sandman possesses. As long as they don't use the serpent guy, I'm fine. There's really no way to make that character cool on the big screen.

The other actor reminds me of Venom in no way whatsoever. They need to get some meathead to play Venom. The slight build of Grace reminds me of Carnage way more.

[Malatory]

Refresh My memory on the history of spiderman ... The End of Spiderman 2 gives the opening on a Villian for Spiderman 3 (Son of Ozcorp -sp-) finds all of his dads goodies. Wouldnt that lead to Hobgoblin ?? Or would it be the return of the Green Goblin??

(My my works proxies/ firewalls didn't block a lot of things I would look for the list I seen on the Vilains to go up agains spiderman).

[Dash20]

The Hobgoblin seems more plausible than GG2, even though Harry IS the second Green Goblin. But I think only the minority of comic book loyalists will complain about straying from the source, and wouldn't have a significant impact on the box office.

I have to agree with The_Wippuh, Topher Grace isn't well suited for Venom. Carnage, okay, but a meathead is needed for Venom. I feel that Grace and McGuire resemble each other in a number of ways, namely age. Perhaps Grace's character is a classmate gone evil, are there any Spidey villains that would fit that description? Just bouncing theories, because I've really no clue what I'm talking about (too many comics to catch up on ).

Help me out here.