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Will Philip Seymour Hoffman Play Spider-Man’s Villain?

You wouldn’t normally think of Topher Grace and Philip Seymour Hoffman going up for the same roles, and yet when it comes to the Spider-Man reboot, all bets appear to be off. Buried deep into a Deadline report about the movie’s still-uncast female leads, Mike Fleming drops a super-weird bombshell: Industry scuttlebut has it that Hoffman is being courted to play the villainous Venom, whom Grace transformed into in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3. Also of note: Dianna Agron is now in the running for blonde love interest Gwen Stacy, yet her arduous one-line-an-episode work schedule on Glee may be a stumbling block. [Deadline]

Will Philip Seymour Hoffman Play Spider-Man’s Villain?