Just hours after some fans had begun to speculate that The Office‘s B.J. Novak might play Dr. Otto Octavius in the forthcoming Spider-Man sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (see more on his mystery role here), The Daily Bugle–the movie’s viral marketing site–made its first reference to the villain.
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Personally, I would not want to see Dr Octopus in this current Spider-Man movie series, largely because I feel that the character was so well created in Tobey's Spidey flick, that I dont want another try at it. While I would not condemn it, I just feel like Spidey has enough villains, they dont need to make another film with Octopus as one of the villains. But hey, that is just me.
I would much rather see Venom, Carnage, and Mysterio on film.
Alfred Molina's Doc Oc was incredible, It's a lot to live up to.
I'm a little concerned with the scope of this second movie. There seems to be so many characters at work, it's reminding me of Spider-Man 3; that is, will there be room for all the characters to get their fair share of time on-screen?
There are two questions at hand for me at this point then.
1 Will the new Doc Ock live up to the highlight of the old franchise?
2 Will they make Doc Ock as important as he has become in the comics? Marvel basically took Green Goblin away from Spidey, and because of that Doc Ock has become basically the arch nemesis of Spidey since then. So will he be just as vital in the movies, or will Green Goblin still be the key villain?
I loved Doc Ock in the original Spider-Man movies.. I cant imagine anybody else playing the role