You may remember that a couple of weeks ago, every actress under the age of 35 in Hollywood seemed to be in the running to play Black Cat, who would be one of the new villains in Spider-man 4. Well, if Movieline is to be believed, that’s not quite right.
The idea that Black Cat would be the main villain came from fairly reliable sources that said Felicia Hardy would be in Spider-man 4. In the comics, Hardy becomes sexy villainess Black Cat, so it was presumed that’s what would happen in the movie. However new info suggests that instead of becoming feline, she may end up as a Vulturess. This would be a brand new supervillain, and the daughter of comics character The Vulture.
This fits well with earlier rumours that Spider-man 4 would feature a father-daughter villain team, although at the point, the sources reffered to the bad guys as the Vipers.
Sam Raimi is apprently circling John Malkovich to play The Vulture, with Anne Hathaway as The Vulturess, although it doesn’t sound like any deals have been signed yet. In another shift away from the comic books, it appears Malkovich’s character will come in as the new owner of the The Daily Bugle, and shake things up a bit.
It also seems that while Dylan Baker had hinted that we may get to finally see Dr Curt Connor (who he’s played in the last two Spider-man films), turn into The Lizard, apparently the studio was wary of signing off on such a strange looking bad guy, so it appears he may have to remain in his human form and we’ll get even Vultures instead..