New Poster, Classic Bad Guy: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Poster Teases Green Goblin

We’re still up to our elbows in wires and cables trying to replace the brokedown home theater PC – a new TiVo has been obtained, but upon approaching our cable TV company, we were told, “What is a… cable… card? Um… can you come back tomorrow when Cletus-Bob is here? He’s equally rude and dismissive, but he knows about ‘lectricity and… stuff,” – but there was something that really caught my attention.

Some big posters for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 have started showing up in certain movie theaters. The posters are split into three panels, with Spider-Man posed in the foreground with his back to the viewer, with Jamie Foxx as Electro attacking on the right, and Paul Giamatti stampeding on the left… and someone unexpected attacking from the center.

Ah hell; you can check it out for yourself after the jump.

Yeah, that looks like the ol’ Green Goblin up on that glider. Either that, or Christian Slater’s character from Gleaming The Cube has heard that this Spider-Man is also a skater, and he is pissed.

Now if I remember correctly, we met Norman Osborn at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man, which had to be a setup to eventually see ol’ Gobby, but I didn’t expect to not only see him this quickly, but this prominently part of the marketing at this point.

On one hand, I think it’s damn cool that Director Marc Webb and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman were able to keep the Goblin’s appearance mostly a secret for as long as they did, especially in the Internet age with Web sites like, well, this one around. But on the other, well, I’m a litle concerned. There is almost a direct correlation between the number of villains in a superhero movie and how good it is. Just look at the original Spider-Man trilogy: the first and second movies had one villain each, and they were killer. Spider-Man 3 had three villains, and let’s just say that there’s a reason I never considered buying the Blu-Ray versions until they unbundled the trilogy.

So there’s a real risk that too many villains could split and diminish the focus and kill the movie… maybe. If the movie handles the bad guys as a team, like maybe a precursor of The Sinister Six to keep things on point, well, this might wind up being pretty damn cool.

One way or the other, we should start seeing trailers showing up soon, because The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens May 2nd, 2014 in the United States.

(via Newsarama)