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Gough, who's still laying out the movie's story with Millar, declines to reveal what bad guys they're considering for the movie. ''I can't really talk about it -- [Marvel Studios chief] Avi Arad will send the X-Men out to kill me,'' he says. ''But quite frankly, there are a lot of fun villains [in the Spider-Man mythos].'' Dunst, meanwhile, told Entertainment Weekly that as far as she knows, the movie will use two villains from the comic books: the metal-armed Dr. Octopus and the scientist turned scaly human reptile the Lizard (or at least that's what we think Dunst meant when she referred to a ''lizard thing'').

But another possibility suggested by the first film's conclusion is the return of the Green Goblin, with Norman Osborn's son, Harry, under that fright mask -- a scenario straight from the comic books. Goblin portrayer Willem Dafoe, who might seem locked out of a sequel, tells EW.com that he has an idea of how Raimi could use him despite his character's death: ''Haven't you heard of flashbacks? Or he could be sort of an Obi-Wan Kenobi voice guiding his son through the paces: 'Avenge me.'''

Villains aside, Gough predicts that the second movie should be able to explore Spider-Man's world even more deeply than the first, which had the burden of starting the story from scratch. ''Sam Raimi told us you almost have to look at each movie as a season of television,'' says Gough. ''In the first season you have the origin story, which, is in a way, the easiest story and the most difficult as well, because you always want to put a fresh spin on it. The challenge is always, what's the next story after that.''

Originally posted May 08, 2002
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