The upcoming Spider-Man reboot has added a few more names to it's growing cast list, and they are kind of unexpected castings. The first two are the casting of Peter's parents, Richard and Mary Parker. Campbell Scott and Julianne Nicholson will be portraying Petey's parents, in I'm assuming a flashback or something like that, as yea, they die.
The other casting news is the addition of Irrfan Khan (Slumdog Millionaire) as a character named Van Atter, who is listed as being a villain. Khan joins Rhys Ifans (The Replacements, Little Nicky) as more than likely Dr. Curt Conners/ The Lizard.
But who is Van Atter? It's certainly not a known name in the Spider-Man mythos, and it took some digging to find out who this character is. But find out, I did. And if this is the character that Khan will be playing it opens up a lot of plot possibilities.
This is the Proto-Goblin, whose name is Nels Van Atter, and he has only had one appearance in the history of Spidey comics, and that was in Peter Parker: Spider-Man -1. Proto is a failed test subject of the Goblin serum, later used by Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin. So if Khan really is playing the character of the Proto-Goblin, it could mean that they are setting this movie up early for the Green Goblin to maybe be the franchise baddie as opposed to the one movie then I die appearance.
Now this is actually a pretty good idea, and I'm quite surprised by this random character grab from Spidey's past. Impressive. What do you think, Action News Team? Is this villain just a little too obscure to be getting the big movie treatment?
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