Marvel Studios has improved in recent years, particularly with Josh Brolin’s Thanos and Michael B. It was thrilling then, and remarkably holds up now when so few villains from the modern glut of superhero movies have left an impression. Released at a time when CGI superhero brawls were not yet a dime a dozen, Spider-Man 2 pivoted on several spectacular set-pieces of Tobey Maguire’s web-head fighting Molina’s not-so-good doctor. But it was Molina’s dry wit and savviness to underplay the menace, as well as Raimi’s canny eye for spectacle that turned Doc Ock into such an iconic winner. Connors/The Lizard’s backstory from the comics, had some broad strokes of humanity added by Alvin Sargent’s final drafts of the screenplay. The film’s Otto Octavius, who was also given elements of Dr. With Molina’s Doc Ock, however, Raimi and the actor crafted a compelling villain who married the zaniness of early Stan Lee and Steve Ditko comics, and its mad scientist authority figures who wanted to take over/destroy the world depending on the issue, and a character actor’s ability to make a meal out of what could be a thin part. While Dafoe was still excellent at chewing scenery as Norman Osborn, his villain kept a foot left planted squarely in the campiness of 1990s blockbusters, specifically the Batman franchise that predated director Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man.
But the movie’s depiction of the character inside that plastic green costume left something to be desired.
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Willem Dafoe was, of course, perfectly cast as Spider-Man’s arch-nemesis from the comics, the Green Goblin, in the original Spidey movie from two years prior. When Spider-Man 2 came out, Molina’s Doc Ock was a breath of fresh air in superhero cinema. While his inclusion might point to a cunning (or haphazard) backdoor into a “Sinister Six” movie, it also suggests Marvel Studios and Hollywood itself is learning to be more discerning about what needs to be rebooted for the sake of franchise continuation, and what does not. In the case of Molina, this is a good thing. The movie doesn’t have a title as of yet, but with Molina joining Jamie Foxx-who played Electro in the much less revered The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)-clearly the film is going to be playing with the space time continuum, and bringing back some old favorites. Nearly 15 years and two reboots later, it turns out they could! Indeed, THR confirmed Tuesday that Molina will return as the metal-armed scientist in the Tom Holland-led, and Marvel Studios produced sequel to Spider-Man: Far From Home. This of course seemed like wishful thinking at the time: Molina might’ve been the best Spider-Man movie villain up to that point, but Sony couldn’t bring him back after he took a nuclear-heated bath, right? Way back in 2004, many speculated Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus would return after Spider-Man 2, even though he ended that movie by vanishing beneath the Hudson River.
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