So the rumour over at Comic Book Movie just now is that there are to be four villians in the new Spiderman film. Four? Isn’t that a bit too much and a bit too crowded for a single movie? We’ve already seen how too many villians can drown a movie (Batman franchise anyone?) so why would they do it in Spiderman, a franchise that seemed to be made with a lot of care and love for the original material and doing something most Hollywood movies don’t do…learn from their past mistakes.
Perhaps this is a sign that they really are thinking of making two movies back to back and splitting the villians between the two? A main villlian in #3 with an introduction to another, then a main in #4 with an introduction to another or some such combination. Wouldn’t that be better than throwing four villians into one story against one hero? I can just see exposition thrown at the audience to explain these characters in the first twenty minutes and everyone left feeling dazed, lecturing and hand held, a bit like I did in Daredevil.
What do you think, is it a good or bad idea? Who could the villians be, or who would you want, especially bearing in mind that they will be fighting for screen time together.
