While most actors keep quiet about what’s going on with major movies they’re attached to, Jamie Foxx seems so excited about being part of Amazing Spider-man 2 he can’t help but talk about it and the plans for his villainous character Electro.
He’s been chatting to MTV about his character’s origins, which seem a little different to how he was in the comic. He says, “What you’ll see is that, for his whole life, no one is talking to him. People have stolen his ideas at the big company. He’s a nobody. At a certain point, Spider-Man bumps into him and says, ‘You’re my guy. You’re my ears and eyes on the street.’ Then he says his name, and no one has ever said Max Dillon’s name. He goes, ‘Wow’ and, when Spider-Man leaves, he sort of thinks that, ‘I am Spider-Man’s partner.’ He’s cutting out Spider-Man’s face and pasting it on all his boards. Everything goes bad with his mom. She doesn’t remember his birthday. He has something tragic happen and, when it turns on, he lights it up.”
Spider-man wasn’t part of Electro’s origins in the comic-books, but it makes sense for the more integrated approach of this new version of Spidey.
Foxx has also talked about his costume, saying they’ll be going for a more grounded look than the outlandish lightning mask and spandex suit the villain wears on the page. “It won’t be green and yellow. It will be a different color. They (the producers) want something for the future. They want to have it more grounded and not as comic book-y, so it won’t be green and yellow. They want to try new things, like a liquid rubber and things like that, and there are all these bolts and stuff in my arms when they are hanging me upside down and trying to figure out what happen. How did he become this way? So, it will be some new stuff. In the script, this villain is the first time it’s been written really, really well. Andrew Garfield and Marc Webb both commented on how great the script is, so it should be an exciting time.”
The movie will start shooting in February.