Hey folks, Harry here... Well one of my wall-crawlers peeking over the shoulder of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN production has given me the drop on what the current situation is with Otto Octavius... that's right... Doc Ock aka Dr Octopus. There's been a great deal of speculation on who would get the tentacles, but now that I've heard... well, it makes a whole helluvalot of sense.
In casting the Green Goblin, Sam Raimi went with a great character actor, someone that you wouldn't instantly think of. Well, right now a very solid offer is on the desk of ALFRED MOLINA to play the man in the badass goggles.
That's right Satipo is going to play Dr Octopus... For those of you that are Alfred Molina impaired, that's the "You throw me the idol, I'll throw you the whip" guy from the opening of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK... Remember the crazy coke head Rahad Jackson in BOOGIE NIGHTS? Or his fantastic Diego Rivera in Salma Hayek's FRIDA? Or his wonderful turn in CHOCOLAT? And... um, his.. um exercise is subtlety that was his Snidely K 'Whip' Whiplash in DUDLEY DO-RIGHT?
If Alfred accepts the offer then again we have a case of a Marvel film making a very very smart CHARACTER CASTING decision. He's just the right size of portly, he grits his teeth quite well and I really hope they give him the Elton John hair-cut!
