Jamie Foxx may be getting a second chance at playing an electrifying villain. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor is in talks to reprise the role of Electro in Tom Holland’s 3rd Spider-Man movie. If Foxx agrees to star in the film, he’ll have to give an Oscar-worthy performance to erase the bad memory of his last attempt at the character.
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When Jamie Foxx was announced as Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, fans had plenty of reasons to be excited. The character had never been brought to live-action before, the suit design looked cool and the role was being occupied by an actor who gave a stunning performance in Django Unchained. But when we actually watched the film, we got a hammy villain with terrible motivations and barely any screentime to shine. (And the less that’s said about the scene where he uses electricity to play a dubstep version of Itsy Bitsy Spider, the better).
Marvel films have gotten much better at giving their villains full backstories and complex motivations in recent years. If they get their hands on Electro, they may be able to create a sympathetic and intimidating villain. And although fans may be reluctant to give Foxx another chance, he would hardly be the first actor to get redemption in a second superhero outing.
Chris Evans went from the goofy Human Torch to Captain America, Michael B. Jordan went from the boring Human Torch to the unforgettable Kilmonger and Julian McMahon went from a horrible Dr. Doom to the terrifying Magistrate on Marvel’s Runaways. And that was just Fantastic Four redemptions!
Jamie Foxx has the motivation and creative talent behind him to nail the role of Electro if he gets a second chance. Hopefully, we’ll see him and Spider-Man 3 in 2021.
Chris Evans was goof by bloody lovable as Human Torch. I’m not saying his Cap isn’t better. It was by far with the writing and production behind but I maintain his Human Torch was a delight.
As far as Jamie Foxx’s Electro I didin’t hate him, directly but it was just a bad movie over all. Just poorly written you’re never going to look good if you have nothing worth saying.
I’ve said this once or twice but it really irks me. Jamie Foxx played the role perfectly. The role called for a person on the autism spectrum. He was Ultimate Electro, and that’s how the character was written. He played it so perfectly that I had flashbacks to my own childhood, an intelligent but socially unaware and inept person who struggled for years to understand why everyone mocked me and took advantage of my honest nature. As a result, I’m now a bitter, cynical bastard who refuses to “get along” with people because of being betrayed too many times by “normal people.” Jamie Foxx makes me want to cry a little inside for the memory of my lost innocence so many years ago. All anyone can talk about is that they made him act doofy. It seems about par for my life that out of two accurate depictions of autism I’ve seen in movies, the one who looks like me is ridiculed off the screen.
I’m wondering if the MCU is going to try and merge the other 2 Spider-Man franchises together using Electro? We have Dr Strange Multiverse movie in the works. Maybe we’ll get a chance to see Toby, Andrew, and Tom all suit up at some point?
@3. Foxx posted a poster on twitter (yesterday) to that extent had Electro looking down at 3 spidermans(men?) but it quickly got removed.
@2 – you expressed a lot of my thoughts really well.
There was something that really resonated with me with his portrayal, regardless of how good or bad the movie was in other ways. I didn’t hate him, I didn’t find him unsympathetic, etc. I mean, I didn’t approve of him either but I personally found his character arc believable.
Also, speaking of multi verse theories (I’d love to see them nod to Spider-Verse too if they could but there may be legal reasons preventing that. I also heard they thought about playing around with that in Spider-Verse, but decided it would be too confusing)…I don’t know that this means anything or not but it’s kind of a funny coincidence, but we also have JK Simmons as another Spider-Man character who jumped from one continuity to the other (actor wise, that is).