Monday
Jan102011
C. Thomas Howell Added to Spider-Man Reboot
Mon, January 10, 2011 
Holy 80s alert, Spider-Man!
C. Thomas Howell, whom history will forever remember for donning black-face for Soul Man in addition to The Outsiders, The Hitcher and Red Dawn (was a finalist for Back to the Future too!), has joined the cast of the Marc Webb/Andrew Garfield 3D reboot.
The actor confirmed the news on his Facebook account (via Movie Hole). But he's wisely not saying much beyond that.
Doesn't scream J. Jonah Jameson, a role that remains uncast to the best of everyone's knowledge - unless the cigar-chomping Daily Bugle editor doesn't appear in the redo.
Norman Osborn, on the other hand, yeah it's not hard to visualize Howell in that role. Assuming the plan involves building up the Green Goblin for any down-the-line sequel.
Reader Comments (4)
Def could see him as norman.
Now add Jonathon Silverman to the cast and we have ourselves a hit!
Nice to see him get mainstream work ; it saddened me a little bit to see him in that Asylum/end of the world movie recently. I always thought this guy was underrated. The Hitcher (the original that is) is one of my favourite thrillers and even Soul Man isn't as bad as people say.
A new report suggests his character is named ray and he could possibly be ray cooper a more recent character and father of charlie cooper who is peter current gf in the comics.