Yahoo News Spider-Man: Homecoming's Vulture is more than a villain
Your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man is swinging into cinemas on July 7 for Spider-Man: Homecoming featuring a younger, cheekier Spidey in Tom Holland.
We weren't sure how we felt about ANOTHER Peter Parker reboot so soon after Andrew Garfield put on the Spider suit, but Holland's appearance in Captain America: Civil War convinced us otherwise.
As if you needed another reason to go and see this movie, now Michael Keaton has revealed a tantalising titbit about his Spidey baddie The Vulture.
It's all going to be a bit more nuanced than that...
Talking to Variety around the release of his new movie The Founder, Keaton said that it had been a while since he played a truly villainous role.
"Yeah, Vulture, recently," he began. "But not to give too much away... interestingly, he is and he isn't, that character.
"He's a really interesting - and more interesting than I thought - villain because there's parts of him that you go, 'You know what? I might see his point.' Really, really. It makes it interesting to play."
Marvel has struggled with really nailing its villains and more recently we've seen bad guys, and girls, who are conflicted and relatable. Zemo in Civil War certainly broke the mould as a man motivated by grief, with no super-powers or high tech and who wasn't an evil genius.
In the comics, Vulture is the alter-ego of Adrian Toomes, an inventor who creates a harness which means he can fly (and has superhuman strength), but turns to crime after his business partner screws him over. We got our first glimpse of him in the Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer.
Exactly what his beef will be with Spidey, we're yet to learn.
Spider-Man: Homecoming opens on July 7 in UK cinemas.
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