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The worlds most A-grade B-actor, Bruce Campbell, was stopped at the red carpet premiere of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and pressed for details on the upcoming Spider-Man 4. Seeing as hes had a role in each of the three Sam Raimi Spidey pictures so far it wasnt too much of a stretch to assume hed be on the call sheet for the next go around too. Not only did he confirm that, he also claimed a January start date for the project. But what could he reveal about his appearance in the film?
According to the info garnered by Access Hollywood, Campbell is expecting his role in the next film to be a major part. Of course, they translated this in their headline to there being a villainous role in the works for the actor, despite the absolute lack of evidence to support this supposition.
Its just about possible that Campbell has been playing the same character in each of the films so far, one guy who just doesnt seem able to hold down a job. Explicitly revealing that could be a fun quirk. Or maybe they could hold that off until the fifth installment, already rumored to be at the basic planning stages.
Campbells little roles in the series have turned out to be rather important to the overall narrative – from giving Spider-Man his mask name to creating serious tension in the Peter-MJ romance or, last time around, facilitating Peters wedding proposal, if in a slightly embarrassing manner. Perhaps this kind of significance is all Campbell meant by major, and he knew he could pull a few legs and start a wave of speculation with his use of the term yet still justify it later? I wouldnt be surprised. But then, I wouldnt be surprised if his comment was based on nothing at all. What would surprise me, if pleasantly, would Bruce Campbell actually taking one of the lead roles in the film.
A whole host of talented writers have taken a pass at the Spider-Man 4 screenplay and Raimi swears that the lessons of part 3 have been learned (hopefully this means that Avi Arad has been chained up in the dungeon with Sean McNamara and their Robosapien) so I guess Im back to full on optimism.
Source: /film
Neil’s comment – there have been a lot of voices saying Campbell should be Mysterio. I can’t disagree, I think he would awesome and I’d love to see Mysterio on the big screen. The character may have a fish-bowl for a head and Raimi hates having faces obscured by masks but it could easily be re-worked so you can see his face. Secondly it’s not too much of an unbelieveable villian, look at Scarecrow, that worked in Batman Begins, I can see Mysterio as a similar sort of character that puts Spidey into a sub-concious daze. Now get on the floor and do the Bruce Campbell (MC Lars).