{"id":5354,"date":"2012-07-04T13:02:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T20:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/?p=5354"},"modified":"2012-07-04T13:02:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T20:02:19","slug":"spoilers-marc-webb-rhys-ifans-explain-the-amazing-spider-mans-end-credits-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=5354","title":{"rendered":"[SPOILERS] Marc Webb and Rhys Ifans explain THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN&#8217;s End-Credits Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/534925_338537866222130_410437902_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5355\" src=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/534925_338537866222130_410437902_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1689023\/amazing-spider-man-post-credits.jhtmlhttp:\/\/\">MTV <\/a>caught up with both Marc Webb (the director) and Rhys Ifans (The Lizard) and asked just what exactly happened in the scene following the credits in The <em><strong>Amazing Spider-man.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spoilers follow the break:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*If you do not want key moments of the movie ruined for you, do not read any further.*<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/286728738298.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5357\" src=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/286728738298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"543\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>As Curt Connors is led into a jail cell, lightening strikes and a mysterious figure appears.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Man in the Shadows:<\/strong> Hello doctor. Did you tell the boy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curt Connors:<\/strong> Tell him what?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man in the Shadows:<\/strong> Did you tell the boy about his father?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curt Connors:<\/strong> No.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man in the Shadows:<\/strong> Well, that&#8217;s very good, so we&#8217;ll let him be&#8230;for now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curt Connors:<\/strong> You should leave him alone!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>And then suddenly with another flash of lightening, he&#8217;s gone.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So who was that in the mid-credits scene of <strong><em>The Amazing Spider-Man<\/em><\/strong>? According to<strong> IMDB<\/strong> it was actor <strong>Michael Massee<\/strong> (credited only as &#8220;<strong>Man in the Shadows<\/strong>&#8220;).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>Marc Webb, when asked if the shadowy figure at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man is indeed Norman Osborn:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nMarc Webb: &#8220;There is a silhouette as Peter enters Oscorp on a display, which reads our founder, Norman Osborn. And there is a back-story which I will not reveal. We wanted to convey that there were more forces at work than you may have initially thought. That&#8217;s all I can say about that. But I invite speculation. I think it&#8217;s very fun and interesting to listen to.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Webb goes on to say that the shadowy figure may not necessarily be the main villain in the next installment but that he will play a role.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_m_contentLBL1\"><\/a> <span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>Dr. Connors actor Rhys Ifans on that same end-credits scene:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br \/>\nRhys Ifans: Connors is sent to an asylum, a high-security asylum, as you would be if you threw police towers across the Brooklyn Bridge. And he&#8217;s visited by, shall we say, a representative from Oscorp. How he gets into that cell and how he leaves that cell without the guards knowing? We have yet to find out.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ifans goes on to say the he isn&#8217;t signed up for more Spider-Man films but and that &#8220;nothing is written in stone&#8221; but he was happy to see that his character was alive at the end of the film.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_m_contentLBL2\"><\/a> While\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: medium\">I have indeed seen many theories recently on the internet about the identity of the &#8220;shadowy figure&#8221;, some ranging from <strong>Green Goblin, Mysterio,<\/strong> and even to Richard Parker. And even some actually thinking it was <strong>Dr Connors<\/strong> simply speaking himself like he did as the <strong>Lizard<\/strong> earlier in the film.\u00a0 It is indeed interesting to note that this character may not be the next movies villain, but will indeed play a substantial role.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/534925_338537866222130_410437902_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5355\" src=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/534925_338537866222130_410437902_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1689023\/amazing-spider-man-post-credits.jhtmlhttp:\/\/\">MTV <\/a>caught up with both Marc Webb (the director) and Rhys Ifans (The Lizard) and asked just what exactly happened in the scene following the credits in The <em><strong>Amazing Spider-man.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spoilers follow the break:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*If you do not want key moments of the movie ruined for you, do not read any further.*<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=5354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;[SPOILERS] Marc Webb and Rhys Ifans explain THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN&#8217;s End-Credits Scene&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics-videogames","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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