Jamie Foxx is returning to the Spider-Man movies, which could mean big things for the entire franchise.
According to Foxx, he is coming back for another round against the Web-Slinger, but this time he won't be blue. The idea is that Foxx is returning as his Electro character from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and while that might be confusing for mainstream movie fans, it could open the door for something amazing.
For one thing, it is fun to have Electro back again. While The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was far from a great movie, Electro bore a similarity to Sam Raimi's Sandman in Spider-Man 3. He was a tragic villain who never wanted to be bad but found himself pushed to evil through misunderstandings with the police and battles with Spider-Man. Electro's return also opens the door for the final scenes of that movie to play out in the new Spider-Man world.
At the end of that movie, someone talked to Harry Osborn at Ravencroft Institute and said things were proceeding as planned. Harry said he wanted to put together a team, but keep it small. He then said that everything they needed was at Oscorp Industries, and this included Doctor Octopus's arms. The idea was that with Electro and Green Goblin introduced, and the items the movie showed at the end, there would finally be a chance to form the Sinister Six. The movie even ended with Rhino in action, and there is no way Sony cast Paul Giamatti for that role just to throw it away on one crowd-pleasing final shot of the movie. That is four characters, and with Vulture, who is out of prison based on the Morbius trailer, and maybe introducing Kraven the Hunter, you have the six promised in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
That isn't even the most interesting plot to consider. While the Marc Webb movies were leading to the Sinister Six, that wasn't the main storyline for Peter Parker. What mattered here was that Peter learned more about his parents' disappearance. In the comics, Peter assumed his parents, Richard and Mary, died and mostly just relied on his Aunt May and memories of his Uncle Ben. It wasn't until years later that it turned out his parents were working with Nick Fury and the CIA. The two ended up presumed dead after a failed mission against the third Red Skull.
In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Peter learned his parents were involved in something dangerous as well. There were memories from his childhood when they had to rush out in the middle of the night, never to return. He even got some information to investigate and started to close in on what happened to his parents. He followed the clues and discovered a video of his father explaining everything.
In the video, Richard mentions that Norman Osborn made a deal with a foreign organization to use his work, but he refused. He said Norman falsified information against him to steal his work. Richard admitted he was the one who was working on the modified spiders that gave Peter his powers. However, the human DNA he implanted in the spiders was his own, and only he and his bloodline can replicate his experiment. It was a huge twist, and then Richard said he had to disappear, and that meant he might never see Peter again.
By bringing back Jamie Foxx and Electro, either Sony or the MCU can take the seeds planted in the The Amazing Spider-Man franchise and run with it. There is so much greatness that can come from both the Richard Parker story and the birth of the Sinister Six. The return of Electro sets up that opportunity if the studios want to finish what it started.