According to The Wrap, we now know which villain actor Rhys Ifans will be playing as the main heavy of Sony's Spider-Man reboot: Dr. Curt Connors, aka The Lizard.
Fuck. That is all. Just... Fuck...
Okay, perhaps a little more - but still "fuck" basically covers it.
No information is provided (yet) as to what the character will actually "do" in the film, but in the broad strokes this would seem to make perfect sense: The reboot is (still, supposedly) aiming to transform the franchise into a "Twilight"/early-"Buffy" style high school genre flick, and Connors usual origin as a science teacher who turns into a monster after using genetic experiments to try and grow his amputated arm back would fit very snuggly into that kind of template - it requires VERY little explanation ("What is 'The Lizard?'" "um... he's a lizard.") his story-arc can occur independently of Spidey's until they cross and being a schoolteacher he can be "around" the main plot without bending the story (such as it is) into knots.
However...
If you recall, the original three Spider-Man films spent a bunch of B-story time setting up Dylan Baker as the Lizard-to-be. So now, not only will fans (to say nothing of Baker) not get to see that storyline culminate, they'll see a cut-rate version in it's place. Joy.
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