![]() ![]() But it was Molina’s dry wit and savviness to underplay the menace, as well as Raimi’s canny eye for spectacle that turned Doc Ock into such an iconic winner. Connors/The Lizard’s backstory from the comics, had some broad strokes of humanity added by Alvin Sargent’s final drafts of the screenplay. The film’s Otto Octavius, who was also given elements of Dr. ![]() With Molina’s Doc Ock, however, Raimi and the actor crafted a compelling villain who married the zaniness of early Stan Lee and Steve Ditko comics, and its mad scientist authority figures who wanted to take over/destroy the world depending on the issue, and a character actor’s ability to make a meal out of what could be a thin part. While Dafoe was still excellent at chewing scenery as Norman Osborn, his villain kept a foot left planted squarely in the campiness of 1990s blockbusters, specifically the Batman franchise that predated director Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. But the movie’s depiction of the character inside that plastic green costume left something to be desired. Willem Dafoe was, of course, perfectly cast as Spider-Man’s arch-nemesis from the comics, the Green Goblin, in the original Spidey movie from two years prior. When Spider-Man 2 came out, Molina’s Doc Ock was a breath of fresh air in superhero cinema. While his inclusion might point to a cunning (or haphazard) backdoor into a “Sinister Six” movie, it also suggests Marvel Studios and Hollywood itself is learning to be more discerning about what needs to be rebooted for the sake of franchise continuation, and what does not. ![]() In the case of Molina, this is a good thing. The movie doesn’t have a title as of yet, but with Molina joining Jamie Foxx-who played Electro in the much less revered The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)-clearly the film is going to be playing with the space time continuum, and bringing back some old favorites. Nearly 15 years and two reboots later, it turns out they could! Indeed, THR confirmed Tuesday that Molina will return as the metal-armed scientist in the Tom Holland-led, and Marvel Studios produced sequel to Spider-Man: Far From Home. This of course seemed like wishful thinking at the time: Molina might’ve been the best Spider-Man movie villain up to that point, but Sony couldn’t bring him back after he took a nuclear-heated bath, right? 17, 2021.Way back in 2004, many speculated Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus would return after Spider-Man 2, even though he ended that movie by vanishing beneath the Hudson River. with a kind of mean look on my face.”ĭoc Ock fans will get to see a de-aged Molina go at it with Holland’s Peter Parker when Spider-Man: No Way Home premieres in theaters on Dec. “I just do that a lot, and the arms are doing all the killing and smashing and breaking. “I then remembered that it’s the tentacles that do all the work! My basic physical move as Doc Ock, as the actor, is just this,” he said as - according to Variety - he glared at the Zoom camera and made a menacing noise. Then he realized, however, that he had four helping hands, er tentacles. Jackson in Captain America: Civil War and Captain Marvel respectively, he didn’t think he could convincingly play the character with the same amount of physicality he gave when he was 17 years younger. When Molina expressed concern to Watts that even with the CGI wonders Marvel had done to Robert Downey Jr. and Samuel L. In a world with multiverses, however, does one ever truly die? No Way Home director Jon Watts doesn’t think so, and also told Molina that Doc Ock's story would pick up right after the final events of the 2004 movie. The first issue Molina’s character will overcome is the fact he died at the end of 2004’s Spider-Man 2, where he went down with his reactor when his work threatened to destroy New York City. But things will work a bit differently for Doc Ock in No Way Home. “It was very interesting going back after 17 years to play the same role, given that in the intervening years, I now have two chins, a wattle, crow’s feet and. “It was wonderful,” Molina told Variety when asked about playing Doc Ock again. SYFY WIRE has reached out for confirmation, but the studio's tight lips about Otto Octavius being in the Tom Holland-led film haven’t stopped Molina from talking - in a new interview with Variety, Molina confirmed he’s reprising his role as the tentacled villain, and also shared some tidbits about his upcoming MCU performance. Even though the news broke months ago, Sony hasn't officially admitted that Alfred Molina is reprising his role of Doc Ock in the upcoming Spider-Man: No Way Home. ![]()
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