{"id":742088,"date":"2026-08-18T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742088\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:54:11","slug":"spider-man-scrapped-villain-salary-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742088\/","title":{"rendered":"“Spider-Man” Scrapped Villain & Salary Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sony Pictures<\/p>\n

While Tom Holland has been selling Sony\u2019s \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d as avoiding the usual Marvel issues and going into production with a solid script, it doesn\u2019t mean changes weren\u2019t made along the way.<\/p>\n

One such change is the film\u2019s primary villain. On the latest episode of The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith<\/a> podcast, co-writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers confirmed that Chameleon was originally going to be that character.<\/p>\n

There was one catch though, Sony\u2019s \u201cKraven the Hunter\u201d film already featured the character. McKenna said:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were thinking, \u2018God, what\u2019s a classic Spider-Man villain that nobody has really done yet in the films?\u2019 We were going, well, Chameleon. But how do you do that? We hit upon the idea of mind control. What if Chameleon was using mind control? But then, they already used Dimitri, Kraven\u2019s half-brother, in Kraven. So we couldn\u2019t do Chameleon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The writers stuck with the idea of a telepathic baddie, ultimately settling on a character who remains one of Marvel\u2019s most iconic telepaths.<\/p>\n

A bunch of other villains make appearances including:\tWilliam Metzger, Savage Hulk, Scorpion, Tombstone, Boomerang, Tarantula, Shocker, and Ramrod.
Others rumored included Mister Negative, the Jackal, Rhino, Hammerhead, the Enforcers, and Paste-Pot Pete.<\/p>\n

The comments come as The Wrap<\/a> reports that 30-year-old Tom Holland looks set to earn over $100 million for the film \u2013 a combination of $20 million salary and backend bonuses awarded for the film\u2019s box-office success. The actor earned $250,000 for his first appearance in the role ten years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony Pictures While Tom Holland has been selling Sony\u2019s \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d as avoiding the usual Marvel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-742088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}