You’ve seen African-American Kingpin, but are you ready for African-American Electro?!? You better be, because Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx is set to play Electro in the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man. He recently confirmed the news and told Entertainment Tonight:
Electro is a great character. I met with the director, Mark Webb, I met with Andrew Garfield, and we talked. I think Electro will be an exciting character to play because he’s a…genius electrician-type person, and he gets the short end of the stick from the whole world, and the next thing you know he turns it on.
I’ve been a fan of Foxx since his days in In Living Color, but really came to appreciate his skills as an actor when he played Bundini Brown in Ali. He’s a great actor and I can’t wait to see his chemistry with Andrew Garfield. Considering Electro’s powers and modern CGI, the special effects should be awesome. Most of all, I’m hoping that Garfield busts out one of my favorite Spider-Man vs. Electro lines of all time:
There’s something I’ve always wanted to know. Are you AC or DC?
What do you think of Jamie Foxx playing Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man sequel?
So you are cool with this but griped about non Latino Bane?
Yes, because I’m positive Jamie Foxx won’t make Electro sound like Goldmember.
Bane’s voice is great. Just pointing out you griped about a Latino change but are cool with this.
His voice was awful, in my opinion. I also think you misunderstood my point. My problems with Bane were that too much of his great origin were rewritten. It wasn’t about him being portrayed by an actor of another race. It was that they rewrote a Latino character to be of another race, changed Venom to painkillers, and tied his origin into the League of Assassins. It totally changed the character for me and made it inferior to the one in the comics.
With all due respect; his (Bane’s) character in the comics was never really that good with the exception of Knightfall… which I was hoping that Dark Knight Rises would use as it’s inspiration for Bane.
-M
I disagree. I enjoyed his war against R’as al Ghul and his role in Secret Six.
Meh. It can’t be any worse than Michael Clark Duncan (rest his soul) as the Kingpin.
-M
I thought he did well in that role. That doesn’t redeem Daredevil as a movie, but MCD was, IMO, a good Kingpin.
Ray, which issue was that quote from? I’ve read that in one of the issues I’m positive, but couldn’t recall it specifically or find it in a quick search.
I actually don’t remember the specific issues, but I remember reading it during college and excitedly showing the panels to a few of my friends. Another great line from that battle is, “You remembered the hyphen. Thanks! Most people forget about it.”
I love when he reminds people about the hyphen. I laughed when one of the early issues had him complaining to JJJ about getting that right.
I’m more interested to see what role Harry is going to play and if they will show Norman or green goblin. Tbh I’m looking forward to seeing how this sets up the 3rd movie