'Spiderman: Homecoming' Confirms Its Second Villain: Michael Chernus set to play 'The Tinkerer' in Spidey's first MCU film
After battling alongside (and against) his fellow Marvel superheroes in Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker (played by Tom Holland) gets the silver screen for himself in next year's Spiderman: Homecoming--with the Vulture (played by Michael Keaton, who incidentally also played DC Comics' Batman in 1989).
Now, however, he's got two supervillains in tow, as Michael Chernus joins this stellar cast to play Phineas Mason, or "The Tinkerer," in this first Spiderman MCU movie, to be directed by Jon Watts and co-produced by Amy Pascal, Kevin Feige, and Eric Hausermann Caroll.
Chernus roles
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Chernus is known for his roles in Captain Phillips, Aloha, The Bourne Legacy and tv series Orange Is the New Black. The next Spidey film also sees the return of many familiar names on the marquee, such as Marissa Tomei, who plays Aunt May; Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man, and Zendaya as Peter's new love interest.
The Tinkerer is one of MCU's top scientific minds, having first debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #2 in 1962 alongside fellow villain Vulture. While not among the ranks of Spidey's biggest enemies, he is known as a weapons supplier to other villains--and, as such, fans can expect all sorts of weaponry and possible action-packed fighting scenes.
Teased at Comic Con 2016
"Spiderman: Homecoming" was teased out at last month's San Diego Comic-Con, where Watts promised hyped-up fans that the film was a "straight-up high school movie." While the trailer is exclusive for the event, first looks of the trailer, Deadline reported, showed a montage of high school photos of the Avengers, Peter's life in the fictional Midtown High School.
The premise is just as simple: the affable and humorous teen tries to work out being a high school student and a super hero on the sidelines. Clips also showed hilarious shots of him making web fluid in chemistry or watching call backs of Civil War on YouTube, with the final reveal of the Vulture.
Swing by the theaters on July 7, 2017 to catch this film.
