“Amazing Spider Man 2” Cast: ‘Rhino’ Produces And Stars in Christmas Drama “All Is Bright’; Next Projects Are Spidey And Shakespeare

"The Amazing Spider Man 2" has busy actors for villains. Paul Giamatti, who will play Rhino, has an indie Christmas movie. His next project after Spiderman: Shakespeare.

In an interview with Collider, Giamatti shares his views:

On how he got involved with a Christmas drama: I actually am a producer on it.  I have a very small company.  We've done a couple of things.  We're gonna do some TV stuff now.  And I actually knew this writer, Melissa Gibson, who's an Obie Award-winning playwright.  She writes very, very interesting, almost surreal, quirky plays.  She writes for the showThe Americans now, too.  So, she had wanted to do a screenplay.  She's Canadian and she's fascinated by these hard-luck guys she'd seen selling trees on the street.  She said, one day, that she had two ideas.  One was about Christmas tree salesmen, and one was a heist movie, and she thought, "Why don't I try to make them the same movie?"  So, I was interested to see what she would come up with, and we encouraged her to do it.  I wasn't even intending to be in it, and then I read it and liked it and thought that I would like to be in it, too.  And then, we got Phil Morrison interested as the director. 

On being a villain on a super hero movie: It was totally awesome!  That's so crazy to me!  It's crazy to me that those are the big-budget movies now.  There was a time when those would have been the low-budget piece-of-crap movies.  But now, it's amazing!  I totally wanted to play a villain in a comic book movie.  I've been waiting my whole life to be a villain in a comic book movie.  When I was a kid, I didn't even know I wanted to be an actor, but I knew that I wanted to be like The Wolfman, or some bad guy in something.  That's what I wanted to do.  I wanted to be those guys.  For Halloween, that's what I would do.  I wanted to be The Mummy.  So, it's great.  I get to do that.  It's awesome! 

On his next project being another Romeo and Juliet adaptation:  The adapted language was interesting.  I'm curious to see how it works.  In some ways, it was just as hard as doing the actual Shakespeare, and yet I think it's clearer to the ear, for people to hear it.  But, it was just as tricky, in some weird way.