ASM2 Screenwriter Orci Talks Oscorp, Sinister Six Movie

“We Must Keep It At Oscorp…”

Amazing Spider-Man 2 screenwriter Roberto Orci spoke with IGN recently and talked about the rebooted Spider-Man film universe’s villains.

Regarding Oscorp…

Oscorp plays an important part in how our villains get created, obviously, in the first one. So because Peter becoming Spider-Man came out of that, rather than saying, “And then this alien came from space,” or whatever, they’re doing human-hybrid, weird stuff at Oscorp. That’s where Gwen Stacy works anyway as well. So the idea of it representing the good and the bad of science, that it can do great things, but it can also mess you up and do weird things and transform people — as all science can be used for good or bad. So it’s nice to have that organizing principal, but it wasn’t like, “We must keep it at Oscorp.” It flowed naturally from the story development.

And on the Sinister Six getting a movie of their own…

IGN: How do you approach a film like Sinister Six that is so villain-centric. Do you take an approach similar to Marvel’s Thunderbolts, where it’s a group of villains that are now – at least to some degree – “being good”?

Orci: That’s the discussion we’re having right now; how exactly do you do that, and how do you do it without betraying the audience and making them all mean? Drew Goddard [Cabin in the Woods] is going to be writing that one, so it’s kind of his problem. [Laughs] I’m kidding. We’re all working on each other’s stuff. So we want to be true to it, but there are some antiheroes in this day and age. There’s been examples of that even on TV — Vic Mackey on The Shield, one of the great antiheroes of all time. There are ways to milk that story. Audiences have seen everything. They’ve seen all the good guys who never do anything wrong. Is there a story in seeing the other side? That’s the challenge, and that’s the fun. I’m not sure how we’re going to do that yet.

To read more info from Orci check out IGN’s interview.

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