I never got around to seeing Andrew Garfield in The Amazing Spider-Man, although I heard good things about this current franchise reboot, and the first film made money. It made so much money that they’re currently working on a sequel, of course. Jamie Foxx plays Spider-Man’s new nemesis, Max Dillon/Electro. These are some photos of Foxx in character as Electro, taken in Times Square late Monday night.
I barely followed the casting controversy for this role – I guess in the comic books, Electro was originally a white dude and now they’ve cast Jamie Foxx in the role. As it turns out, people don’t care that much, maybe because Jamie’s skin is glowing blue and no one feels like being racist against blue people. According to the Spider-Man mythology, Maxwell Dillon was an engineer fixing a power line when he was struck by lightning. The lightning gave him a super-power: the ability to control electricity. In the 21st century, shouldn’t we have an evil villain who can control… dun dun dun… nano-technology?!?!
In all seriousness, I think this is an interesting career move for Foxx, whose career kind of stumbled a bit after his Oscar-winning turn in Ray. Jamie has done interesting work over the past decade, but he’s not the most consistent actor, and before now he’s never seemed to show any interest in the comic book stuff. Anyway, enjoy these photos while you can. You won’t actually get to see Blue Jamie in the theater until summer 2014.
Photos courtesy of PacificCoastNews.com and WENN.com.
Ummm I don’t think I like Jamie Foxx so this may pose a problem.
Me either.
Me neither. Even with an Oscar win (and even that is laughable) I can’t take him seriously.
I don’t know how to feel about it honestly. I was super happy Electro was being included in the movie, he’s not as well known as the ones included in the previous movies. He’s always been one of my favorites, but to be honest I’m not sure about the blue skin/ lack of his trade mark costume. I understand they don’t want it to be as comic booky, but still. As long as the essence of Max is there I can’t complain i suppose.
I’m also happy about the fact Rhinos making an apperance! I dunno how they are planning on bringing Rhino to life but i hope the actor does a decent Job I have my reservations about Paul Giamatti being able to pull him off but well see.
This would totally freak me out if I had seen him in Times Square Monday night.
What…the hell…is this? I can’t stop laughing, he looks like a mutated smurf had sex with a lizard and this is the result.
And I know this is from the comics but getting struck by lightning turns you a lovely shade of blue? Whaaat? If anything, he should be crispy fried and burnt, not Dr. Manhattan-y.
Seriously, this is too funny. I think I might have to re-watch Django in order to stop giggling.
He looks nothing like that in the comics. He’s a white dude with a green and yellow costume, and a burnt face. His costume ia cheesey as hell but he sure the hell ain’t how he looks in this movie
I definitely prefer my Jamie Foxx black. 🙁
I’m not a Spider-Man fan, anyway, and this just confirms it for me. What a waste of perfectly good male hotness.
omg look at his arms holding that popcorn…he he
he’s so hot.
i think he can play funny (horrible bosses) roles and serious roles all well. i just loved loved django unchained and him!!
These pics look freaky. I’m not into Spider-Man, I don’t know the dynamic between this dude and the other characters, so “creepy” is my only comment.
ZOMG Y’ALL IT’S WHITEFACE!
/sarcasm
Sorry, I had to. 😉
I love Jamie Foxx :D, he can look like a blue freak or whatever, I don’t care.