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First Look at Lizard on Sat.'s Spectacular Spidey

Added by G~man on March 12, 2008 | |

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Looks like Spider-Man is going to have his hands full. As always, you can click on the image for a bigger view.

Here's the first official image of The Lizard, the primary villain to emerge in the Saturday, March 15 episode of "The Spectacular Spider-Man." The episode, entitled "Natural Selection," premieres at 10:00 a.m. ET/PT on Kids' WB! on The CW.

Popular animation and video game voiceover actor Dee Bradley Baker provides the voice of Curt Connors/The Lizard. Baker's credits include work on the hit shows "Avatar: The Last Airbender," "SpongeBob SquarePants," "Ben 10," "The Fairly Oddparents" and hundreds of
episodes within other animated series. Of note: For the Activision "Spider-Man" (2000) and "Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro" video games,
Baker provided the voice for The Lizard, as well as several other villains.

In "Natural Selection," Peter Parker and Spider-Man both must learn to own their choices when decisions made by Dr. Curt Connors transform Pete's mentor into The Lizard. The episode is written by Matt Wayne and directed by David Bullock.

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Spider-Man 4 with Raimi? Sinister Six? Lizard?

Added by G~man on June 26, 2007 | |

This post relates to: Sinister Six, Lizard, Spider-Man

What's in store for Spider-Man 4? Will Sam Raimi direct or even be involved? What about the Lizard? And now there's talk of the Sinister Six? MTV.com had this:

"Sony Pictures is going to be making many more 'Spider-Man' pictures," Raimi told MTV News Friday night. "I just don't know what [my] future holds yet."

But from what he told us after the ceremony, it sounds like the filmmaker is setting the stage to bow out while he's on top. "If I can't find the right story that would work for me and that I could tell really well, I would like someone else to tell that story," he said of the already-announced "Spider-Man 4."

Amending his statement, he added, "But if it's a great story and Sony will bring me back to the screen, I would love to."

Indeed, it might be Sony that ultimately chooses to end the partnership, which could be a result of Raimi's still-standing pact with Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst that either they all return or none of them does. "It would be really hard for me to make a movie without Tobey and Kirsten playing the two leads," he said. "I would seriously think about James [Franco] too, but he bit the dust in this last one."

Ultimately, if Sony considers the price tag too high for another Raimi/Maguire/Dunst collaboration, then the negotiations would turn to keeping Raimi onboard as a producer only. "I would still hope that Sony would offer it to me [to direct] first," he said. "But that is not my place to say; it would be more about if Sony decided not to go with me. If not, it would be really up to them to come to a solution [for me to still be involved as a producer]."

Either way, if this tangled web does still involve the filmmaker, Raimi has been busy brainstorming about the villains he'd like to get into the next flick. "I would love to see Electro, Vulture, maybe the Sinister Six as a team," he said.

Those three possibilities wouldn't necessarily cancel each other out. Since both were founding members of the Six, the Soviet supervillain and high-flying supergenius could appear in the next flick, be teamed with a returning Doctor Octopus and Sandman and form a supergroup to also introduce Mysterio and Kraven the Hunter.

To read the rest of the story, including Raimi's thoughts on the Lizard, go to: www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1563359/20070625/story.jhtml