The Amazing Spider-Man 2 viral marketing site mentions villain Big Man
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 continues to use viral marketing and social media as well as any movie in recent memory, specifically through The Daily Bugle Tumblr page that has posted multiple fake newspaper articles that reference various villains and other characters in the Spider-Man universe. The latest one on Tuesday references a bit of an obscure villain but an interesting one nonetheless.
Reporter Frederick Foswell, who was eventually exposed in the comics as the villain Big Man, wrote the article. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created the character, who clashed with a young Spider-Man and teamed up with the Enforcers to try to bring down the web head.
Check out the brief article below:
"Despite corroborated reports that a central figure has risen to claim greater control over the Russian organized crime families, the NYPD continues to deny the existence of the lazily nicknamed 'Big Man.' (Was 'Scary Crime Boss' already taken?) Can't we come up with a more pointedly clever nickname for this hard-nosed criminal?
In the four months since the terrorist attack on OsCorp Tower, violent crime is way up. Everyone's afraid of everyone. The nuns are wearing bulletproof habits. Cabbies are afraid to HONK. Hot dog vendors are staying INSIDE their carts. I even overheard someone use the word SORRY.
Is this climate of fear a result of the NYPD shifting its focus towards the potential threat of super-human activity?
I don't know about you, but Spider-Man doesn't scare me. Nothing in red spandex scares me. It's time for the mayor's office to address the real question at hand: Which is a bigger police priority - organized crime or super-humans?
A source who requested anonymity said, 'They just want to do real police work, not chase after unicorns, wall-crawlers and giant mutated reptile-men.'"
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is set for release on May 2, 2014 and stars Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, Jamie Foxx as Electro, Paul Giamatti as Rhino, Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn (and, presumably, Green Goblin), Chris Cooper as Norman Osborn and Sally Field as Aunt May Parker.