Lizard Was Almost Comic-Accurate In Spider-Man: No Way Home Concept Art
A Spider-Man: No Way Home concept artist has revealed an early, alternate design for the Lizard that is closer to his comic counterpart. No Way Home proved to be the blockbuster event of 2021, breaking numerous records at the box office after cinemas reopened following the COVID-19 pandemic. Audiences rushed to see the first multiversal crossover film in the MCU as Tom Holland’s Peter Parker teamed up with Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s versions of the wall-crawler to combat villains from across the spider-verse.
These threats included antagonists from Sam Raimi’s original trilogy, like Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock, as well as ones from Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man series, such as Jamie Foxx’s Electro. Included in the latter camp was also Dr. Curt Conners, AKA The Lizard, an Oscorp scientist who experimented on himself with Lizard DNA and became a reptilian creature. The No Way Home version was modeled after his The Amazing Spider-Man iteration, with actor Rhys Ifans returning to provide the voice.
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Ian Joyner, a Visual Development Supervisor at Marvel Studios, has released early concept art of an alternate design for the Lizard in No Way Home. The design is starkly different from that seen in his original film appearance and is much closer in line with the traditional comic book look. The Lizard has a more extended snout, as per his comic look, while sporting the lab coat and purple pants that the character is most often depicted in. Joyner’s description details how the aim of the design was to incorporate these comic book elements while also showing how beastly The Lizard had become as his mutation progressed. Check out the tweet below:
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