{"id":28862,"date":"2019-08-03T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T04:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=28862"},"modified":"2019-08-03T21:57:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T01:57:17","slug":"far-from-home-mysterio-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/far-from-home-mysterio-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Far From Home Mysterio addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

As mentioned in today's new review<\/a>, Sam Raimi was planning to use Mysterio in his unproduced Spider-Man 4<\/i>. In fact, the idea made it so far as the storyboard stage:<\/p>\n

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According to artist Jeffrey Henderson<\/a>, the film would have opened with a montage of Spidey dealing with random villains who would never be able to support a movie on their own: Shocker, Prowler, Rhino, and yes, even Mysterio:<\/p>\n

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Now, that sounds like a cool thing all on its own. But as the storyboards reveal, Mysterio would have been played by none other than Bruce Campbell, which raises the question: were all his appearances in the first three movies Quentin Beck just trying to hold down day jobs?<\/p>\n

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Well, there's nothing to say they weren't, so we're going to assume \"yes.\"<\/p>\n

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Now, in the wake of Far From Home<\/i>'s release, Campbell gave an interview which supposedly \"debunked\" this rumor, saying Raimi had never gotten in touch with him about the role. Well, that doesn't really disprove anything: all it says is that Sam Raimi had a reasonable expectation that his old friend would be available and willing to appear in the new movie, just as he had been for the first three.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>