The man who first brought legitimacy to live action Superheroes in 1989 with his iconic portrayal of the Caped Crusader in Tim Burton’s: Batman, is eying to play the primary villain in the return of another heroic icon to the big screen. Rumors are that Michael Keaton who a little over a year ago provided a through provoking commentary on the superhero genre in the academy award winning film: Bird-man will ironically play Adrian Toomes a.k.a The Vulture in Spider-man Homecoming.
It seems that filmmakers have been trying to bring the vulture to the big screen for almost a decade, the character was rumored to be the antagonist of the never produced Sam Raimi Spider-man 4. According to those that were lucky enough to read that script before sony sadly canned the project, that version would have featured a female version of the character know as the Vultturess played by Anne Hathaway, who roughly a year later went on to play Catwoman in Christopher Nolan’s: The Dark Knight Rises in 2012. However Hathaway was rumored to be only one of two Vultures in the film, the second would have been a more classic interpretation of the character played by John Maclkovich.
Also who can forget that at some point it was assumed that the villain would play a major role in Marc Webb’s vision for Spidey, as the Vulture wings were actually teased at the end of 2014’s The Amazing Spider-man 2. At that time it was believed that Colm Feore would play the character at the very least in a Sinister Six film that Sony also had to scrap when they cut a deal with Marvel to share the profits and rights of Marvel’s most popular character.
The decision to go with Vulture here makes perfect sense, at this point he is one of the only original
Spider-man Villains who has not been given a film to soar in. Originally appearing in Amazing Spider-man #7 released in December 1963, the character of Adrian Toomes was nothing more than someone who used his advanced technology of flying to be a petty thief. It wasn’t until later incarnations of the character in both the comics and the 1990’s Spider-man cartoon that aired on Fox that the villain was given added depth. Later takes on the now classic Spidey Villain saw Toomes credited with earning a Masters in Engineering that validating his knowledge to develop the Vulture Tech. It wasn’t until Amazing Spiderman #387 that the character was given his now famous ability to steel the age of others to return a more youthful and vigorous version of himself.
Spider-man Homecoming from Marvel Studios and Disney hits theaters July 7th 2017
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