The Sinister Six rumors

Rumors about the The Sinister Six film.

Cast

• Jamie Foxx will reprise his role as Electro.
• Paul Giamatti will reprise his role as the Rhino.
• Rhys Ifans will reprise his role as the Lizard.                 
• Michael Massee will reprise his role as Gustav Fiers.
• Dane DeHaan may appear as Harry Osborn/Green Goblin.
• The studio are eyeing Ryan Gosling for a role.
• Tom Hardy, Danny McBride, Jonah Hill, Chris O'Dowd, Michael Peña, Joel Edgerton, Jason Clarke, Sharlto Copley and a number of others are wanted for the Sandman.
• Emily Blunt, Keri Russell, Ruth Wilson or Rose Byrne will play Scorpia.
• The studio are looking at Emilia Clarke and Elizabeth Olsen for roles.
• Sean Penn, Tom Hardy, Denzel Washington, George Clooney and Daniel Craig were also all discussed/rejected for roles, with Penn directly mentioned as a Doctor Octopus candidate and Woody Harrelson is too.
• Colin Firth is also suggested as the Vulture.
• Idris Elba, Jackie Chan and Bryan Cranston are being looked at for roles.
• Channing Tatum is rumored to play Venom.

Characters

• Doc Ock will appear.
• The Gentleman will appear.
• Electro will appear.
• The Rhino will appear.
• The Lizard will appear.
• Mysterio will appear.
• Shocker will appear.
• Vulture will appear.
• Kraven the Hunter will appear.
• Harry Osborn will be Green Goblin as a member of the team.
• Spider-Man will make a cameo.
• Venom and Carnage will appear as the film's villains.
• Sandman, he'll apparently be the movie's comic relief.

Story

• The team will be anti-heroes.
• CONFIRMED:The film won't have the original line up.
• The line up for the team are Green Goblin, Rhino, Lizard, Black Cat, Carnage, Vulture, and Doctor Octopus with Alistair Smythe in place as their armorer.
• The lineup are the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Rhino, Vulture, Kraven the Hunter and Mysterio. The image believed to be mysterio could, however, also be Shocker (due to the lined pattern on his mask) or Chameleon. 
• DEBUNKED: The end of the film will show a dying Doc Ock mindswapping with Peter Parker, setting up Amazing Spider-man 4 as the Superior Spider-man saga.
• The film may lead to The Amazing Spider-Man 3.
• CONFIRMED: Spider-Man will reluctantly work together with the Six against a dangerous threat.
• Doctor Octopus is described as the team's leader and needs to have quirks so as not to be boring as The Sinister Six's straight man.
• Sandman will assume a gigantic form at one point.
• Gog, an interdimensional monster, will be the main antagonist, having been brought to Earth by a failed teleportation scheme thanks to Doc Ock, and Harry sets aside his grudge with Peter to help take the beast down, while Doc Ock gets away.
• The Venom Symbiote will appear in a post-credits scene to set up Venom.

Production

• DEBUNKED: Drew Goddard will write the film and also has his eye on directing.
• Production on the film could begin as early as January 2015.
• DEBUNKED: The film may be the 2015 Spider-Man film.
• The film may take the original release date of The Amazing Spider-Man 3.
• CONFIRMED: The film could be cancelled.