Things We Saw Today: Could We See the Return of Willem Dafoe in Spider-Man: No Way Home?

Finally, a rumor that I can THRIVE with. On Collider’s Jeff Sneider‘s most recent podcast, he said that he’s heard—and is “pretty sure” it’s accurate—that Willem Dafoe is the main villain and leading his own version of the Sinister Six against Tom Holland’s Peter Parker. As the official Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark superfan, this is truly my dream situation.

All I want in this world now is for Willem Dafoe to have to sing this song and introduce his own Sinister Six.

While I am well aware of this just being a rumor, I’m going to bask in the idea of Willem Dafoe coming back as the Green Goblin. The reason he worked so well was that he understood the campiness of Norman Osborn and just how frightening he could be, too. You believed that this man lost everything and wanted to do his best to get some sort of power back. It’s why he was the only Norman turned to Green Goblin we saw in the live-action movies (we did have another Norman, but he never took on the Green Goblin mantle onscreen).

Would I give my firstborn to have this rumor be real? Honestly, yeah. You can also take my cat. Take my savings. I just want Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina to be back in the world of Spider-Man again so I can cry about it for the next twenty years. (I’m going to pretend like I did not realize that Spider-Man, the movie, is almost twenty years old.)

(via ComicBook.com, image: Marvel Entertainment)

Here are some other stories we saw out there today:

• Miles Teller to Replace Armie Hammer as Star of #TheGodfather Making-Of Series #TheOffer https://t.co/e8PsUk7V8a

  — TVLine.com (@TVLine) May 28, 2021

• The first trailer for the new Gossip Girl is here! (via CBR) 

• *taps mic*

  Oh hello. Hi there. Nice to see you. A bit of news:

  BIDEN RELEASED HIS BUDGET AND IT DOESN’T INCLUDE THE HYDE AMENDMENT. #BeBoldEndHyde pic.twitter.com/c8F08Wfkix

  — ⚓️🚢Imani Gandy 🚢⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) May 28, 2021

• Bill Cosby was denied parole when he refused to go to therapy for violent sexual predators. (via HuffPost)

• One of the first photos of #Harambe is going on sale as an NFT: https://t.co/Mujlw202Hd pic.twitter.com/vNuOKjmaGX

  — ComicBook.com (@ComicBook) May 28, 2021

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