The story works hard to integrate various elements from Spidey's history, and the score works even harder to let you know what you should be feeling at any given moment. July 14, 2015 | Dumbed down, tarted up, and almost shockingly uninspired, it's the worst superhero movie since Green Lantern. September 24, 2012 | This is a grittier webslinger saga, led by a Peter Parker with swagger and angst and a tone defined more by emotional resonance than wide-eyed wonder. It still has plenty of fizz. July 4, 2012 | This might be a fun summer blockbuster if only it even remotely needed to exist. The Amazing Spider-Man is considerably more fun-and, yes, even touching-than so premature a reboot had any right to be. July 3, 2012 | On the whole, it's passable stuff, a surprise, given how mechanical the masked character seemed. Boy, this new Spider-Man movie is becoming the biggest casting goldmine in Hollywood, eclipsing Justice League by leaps and bounds.
Spider-Man: Homecoming, fresh on the heels of adding Donald Glover to the impressive list of names, has added two new cast members, according to reports—Deadline is reporting that Silicon Valley‘s Martin Starr has signed on, and Variety is sharing that Prometheus‘ Logan Marshall-Green (aka, not-Tom Hardy) has been added as the film’s villain, though neither speculates on which characters they’ll be.Because we like speculating and are exceedingly good at it. There’s already a fair amount of talk about who will be playing whom in Homecoming, and Deadline even offhandedly mentions that the previously announced Michael Keaton would be playing the Vulture, even though that has yet to be confirmed (we asked and everything). So let’s, for a moment, assume that the Vulture isn’t a factor. Marshall-Green could be playing any number of villains. We’d hope this new version of the webslinger–the third iteration of the character in film since the year 2000–would avoid Norman Osborn/the Green Goblin for a third time as well, and even the Lizard would be a bit too soon.
We personally hope—especially if they use the Vulture—that it might be a character like the Shocker, or Mysterio, or even Kraven the Hunter. We’d be way into one of those. As for Starr, that’s a bit trickier. If he’s playing a villain, it could be the computer genius Alistair Smythe, or the Tinkerer, who has the silliest name ever. If he’s not a villain, it might be interesting to see him play someone like…wait a minute, there aren’t that many non-villain characters for a dude in Starr’s age range huh? I’m sort of at a loss with him. But, that doesn’t mean he won’t be playing someone very popular or well-known. Spider-Man: Homecoming is the long-awaited melding of Sony’s Spider-Man franchise with Marvel Studios. Jon Watts is directing the script by John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein (so it’ll be funny, surely), and will star Tom Holland as Peter Parker, Marisa Tomei as Aunt May, Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, and actors Michael Keaton, Tony Revolori, Zendaya, Michael Balbieri, Kenneth Choi, and Laura Harrier as unconfirmed characters.
Who do you think Martin Star and Logan Marshall-Green will play in the movie? Also, what the hay is with all these great actors?!?! Let us know in the comments below! But, like, who’s Donald Glover playing in the movie? Images: HBO/20th Century FoxAfter losing his arm in an explosion, Dr. Curtis Connors devoted his life to creating a serum to regenerate lost limbs. Using DNA from reptiles, who naturally regrew lost limbs, Connors created a serum he was sure would work. Using himself as the first test subject, Connors injected himself with a dose of the formula, and was ecstatic when his arm began to regenerate. However, the reptilian DNA his serum was based on mixed with, and altered, his own DNA, and turned him into a vicious creature known as The Lizard. While Connors was eventually "cured" by Spider-Man and returned to his human appearance, in times of anger, stress or sadness, Connors body often reverts back into his reptilian form. More recently, his Lizard alter-ego took over his body, also "evolving," not being able to turn into a human any more.
Dr. Curtis Connors is a professor at Empire State University. He accidentally turned himself into a large creature called Lizard. Dr. Curt Connors was a biology teacher and ESU and scientist studying reptiles and cell regeneration. Connors had lost his arm. He became so desperate on regrowing his arm, that he tested his reptile potion on himself. The serum regrew his arm but also turned him into a Lizard creature. He went through New York’s sewers like an animal. Peter Parker needed money so he had to try to take pictures of the strange Lizard creature and sell them to The Bugle Bugle. When the Lizard kidnapped Martha Connors, Spider-Man had to intervene to save her. He discovered that the Lizard was Doc Connors mutated. He used a gene-cleansing device to cure Connors and save Martha. He helped Spider-Man to identify his alien costume as a hostile alien symbiote. He also helped Spider-Man get through a mutation disease. Connors was studying a supposed fountain of youth called the Tablet of Time.
This makes him the target of both Silvermane and Kingpin. He transforms into the Lizard and goes crazy again but soon turns back to normal and is kidnapped by Tombstone for Silvermane. He turns back into the Lizard and battles the younger Silvermane who defeats the brute easily. Curt is cured again by being exposed to the Tablet’s rays. He again helps Spider-Man when Vulture accidentally turns into Man Spider after absorbing Spider-Man's youth. Connors returns Spider-Man's youth but leaves the disease in Vulture. When Vulture and Scorpion team up to destroy Spider-Man and Connors, he turns into the Lizard again but reverts to normal after his lab explodes. Mutant lizards that lived in the sewers found out that Dr. Connors created them later abducted Connors. He became their Lizard King and ruled over them and the games they participated in. With help from Mary Jane Watson, Debra Whitman, and Martha Connors, Spider-Man was able to return Curt to his human self. During the Secret Wars, the Beyonder kidnapped Lizard to be a part of his team of villains.