Collider.com recently talked to John Malkovich about Spider-Man 4 and how it fell apart. It seems Malkovich just can’t get into a Spider-Man movie. He turned down the Green Goblin role in Spider-Man 1 and he accepted the role of the Vulture in Spider-Man 4. Here are some of his quotes.
“Well, I think a lot of the people who sort of follow that genre… I’m not sure, I never really spoke with Sam about this, but I’m not sure they — maybe the kind of fanbase, the fanboys — either didn’t approve of that character as an adversary for him to some extent…or maybe the studio. Or maybe that was totally unrelated to why it fell apart.”
Malkovich then talks about his disapointment that the movie didn’t happen.
“Yes [I was disappointed],” he says. “But because I like Sam and I like Toby [Maguire] and all that stuff, and the producers, two of whom I’d met before because I’d been offered the first [film] … I came to like them, so sure why not? But it didn’t play out.” “
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Thanks for the link, I think! I was a bit disappointed that they got my name wrong- nice of you to correct the record.
didn’t he pass on the Green Goblin because a comic book movie was beneath his thespian skills and not up to the high standards of Con Air?
I sure didn’t want to see a movie based on the Vulture. But at the time I didn’t know not having a Vulture movie equals rebooting the entire movie franchise. Ohs well.
You know, if this story had broken a few days ago, we could have talked about it with our “return of the Vulture” coverage on ASM Classics… I guess it simply wasn’t meant to be…