Speaking to Black Film and MTV about his forthcoming role as Max Dillon, the man who becomes Marvel supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Jamie Foxx’s costume description sounds uncannily like the Ultimate Universe take on the character.
“It won’t be green and yellow,” said Foxx. “It will be a different color. They want something for the future. They want to have it more grounded and not as comic book-y, so it won’t be green and yellow. They want to try new things, like a liquid rubber and things like that, and there are all these bolts and stuff in my arms when they are hanging me upside down and trying to figure out what [happened]. How did he become this way? So, it will be some new stuff… The suit is really slick. It’s actually black. It’s a new age.”
He also revealed a bit about the character’s origin story, saying, “You’ll see that in his whole life, no one is talking to him. People have stolen his ideas at the big company. He’s a nobody. At a certain point, Spider-Man bumps into him and says, ‘You’re my guy. You’re my eyes and ears on the street. And he says his name — no one has ever said Dillon’s name… He sort of starts thinking that somehow, he’s Spider-Man’s partner.”
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is due 2 May 2014, while The Amazing Spider-Man is out now. Order it now on DVD for £10 and Blu-ray for £14.99 from Amazon.co.uk. Thwip thwip.