Electro's Redesigned Powers In No Way Home Explained By VFX Team
The Spider-Man: No Way Home visual effects supervisor recently discussed the redesign of Electro's powers. No Way Home premiered in December 2021 and quickly shot to the top of the box office, a spot it seems likely to hold even after 6 weeks. Directed by Jon Watts, Spider-Man: No Way Home saw Peter Parker (Tom Holland) face the multiverse with the help of MJ (Zendaya), Ned (Jacob Batalon), and Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch). The MCU's first introduction of the multiverse on the big screen brings with it a host of old villains and two more Spider-Men (Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield) from previous movie series.
Among these returning villains is former Oscorp electrical engineer, Max Dillon (Jamie Foxx), known as Electro. In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, a tragic accident involving a tank of genetically modified electric eels turns Max into a blue being with electric powers. When Electro returns in No Way Home, however, he has shed his blue coloring and now emits yellow lightning which is more closely connected to his mainstream comic book incarnation. In addition to the new costume, Electro's powers behave differently in No Way Home than they do in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Electro seems more electricity than man. Now, Electro uses an arc reactor to power himself.
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Visual effects supervisor for Sony Pictures Imageworks, Chris Waegner, explains some of the changes made to Electro's character in an interview with Before & Afters. Waegner says their team designed Electro to be more dynamic in Spider-Man: No Way Home, so that his powers would threaten the heroes just with his presence. He also mentions how they thought about Electro's
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