Part of the appeal of Jon Watts’ Spider-Man: No Way Home – in addition to seeing all three live-action Spider-Men on screen for the first time – was reuniting with multiple villains from the franchise’s legacy. Willem Dafoe was able to lose himself as Norman Osborn one more time, and Alfred Molina continued Otto Octavius’s redemption arc. It was beautiful, and a big part of the reason why Spider-Man: No Way Home ranks so high on our list of every Spider-Man movie, ranked. Moving forward, it would make more sense for Sony to continue exploring these established villains, whom fans have grown attached to, instead of trying to launch characters no one has even heard of before (hello, El Muerto). And from the sounds of these Thomas Haden Church quotes, conversations have been had.
Thomas Haden Church first played Flint Marko, aka Sandman, in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3. He’s the villain Raimi wanted to focus on (as documented in the Spider-Man Hollywood history book, With Great Power), because he had a compelling story regarding his young daughter, and the reasons why he was forced to turn to a criminal lifestyle. In a new interview with Acidman on Pilot Productions, however, Church makes it sound like there’s a chance his Sandman might return, only… cured! As he explains:
