Alfred Molina will be Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 3 (and he wouldn’t be the only familiar face returning …).
Alfred Molina will return as Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 3, the upcoming Marvel Studios and Sony film with Tom Holland, confirms The Hollywood Reporter. And it might not be the only familiar face to appear in the movie …
Upgrade: Collider’s Jeff Sneider sees the Alfred Molina thing and ups the ante: all the Peter Parkers of cinema will return in Spider-Man 3, turning the next installment into a reunion with all the live-action Spider-Man.
Although he does not cite his sources, he is completely sure that Andrew Garfield and Kirsten Dunst (Mary Jane Watson in the Raimi trilogy) will return. It also states that Tobey Maguire and Emma Stone (Gwen Stacey in the Marc Webb films) are currently in negotiations,
If the negotiations come to fruition, three generations would be found in a single film …
Original News: A few days ago a new rumor about the cast of Spider-man 3 (the third Spider-Man movie from Marvel Studios and Sony with Tom Holland). There have been many rumors about this film, which still has no official title, but this one has turned out to be real. Alfred Molina will be Doctor Octopus again, a villain who already performed wonderfully in Spider-Man 2, in 2004.
Sony or Marvel have not yet ruled on the cast of the film (it does not even have a logo or official title yet), but several sources from The Hollywood Reporter confirm Molina’s presence in the film.
According to the medium that gave the rumor a week ago, Geeks Worldwide, Molina would have already shot his scenes after working on the choreographies, which suggest it will have action scenes (which will not be a simple cameo, come on).
Alfred Molina was the main villain of the film Spider-Man 2, by Sam Raimi and with Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man, released in 2004. Molina will return to be Octopus, but it is not known if it will be a new version of the character, or if it will be the same, thus recovering the Raimi trilogy from the canon.
Let us remember that the current Spider-Man saga, with films directed by Jon Watts and starring Tom Holland, have nothing to do narratively with those of Tobey Maguire or with those of Andrew Garfield. However, this third installment can change all that, because in addition to Molina / Octopus there will be another previous villain, this time Jamie Foxx’s Electro that we saw in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Let’s remember that another of the confirmed characters for this movie is Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), which opens the door to the possibility of all of these villains overlapping across the multiverses …
Until December 17, 2021 (if there are no delays in between), which is when the film is released, we will not find out. It is currently being shot, and some images of the shoot have already come out.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
