Ready for some shocking news? See what I did there?… Jamie Foxx is returning as Electro in Spider-Man 3. Foxx previously played the classic Spidey villain Electro in the Andrew Garfield-starring The Amazing Spider-Man 2 but, as of now, those films aren’t connected to the MCU films with Tom Holland as the web-slinger.
Story details are being kept under wraps, but having Foxx return is a stunner as it shows a further melding of the previous Spider-Man movies into the current Holland series, which is the first one that has Marvel running point on production. Far From Home began that idea by bringing back J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson, the character he played in the Tobey Maguire-starring Spider-Man trilogy.
Foxx played Electro in 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which starred Garfield as Spider-Man. The film failed to impress critics and underperformed at the box office with $708.9 million globally. Those underperforming box-office returns — along with the 2014 Sony hack — paved the way for Sony to make the unprecedented move and strike a deal with Marvel Studios to share the character, leading to Holland starring as the web-slinger in the Avengers movies and Marvel talent such as Robert Downey Jr. appearing in Sony’s solo Spider-Man films.
Jon Watts, the filmmaker behind Homecoming and last year’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, is in the director’s chair for the third installment, which Sony has dated for November 5, 2021. Most of the supporting cast from the previous movies — including Zendaya, Marisa Tomei, Jacob Batalon, and Tony Revolori — are expected to be on the call sheet when cameras roll in Atlanta this fall.
