Well, this is quite the surprising news. Yes, as the headline suggests, Jamie Foxx may be reprising his Electro role.

Foxx played Max Dillon, aka Electro, in Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 back in 2014, and now The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the Academy Award winner is in talks to play Electro in the to-be-titled follow-up to Spider-Man: Far From Home.

Marvel and Sony have yet to comment on all of this just yet, and there are also questions over Electro should Foxx indeed pick up the part once more. Would this be the same Electro that we saw in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, or would this actually be Foxx playing a different incarnation of the electrifying villain?

If this is indeed the one and the same Electro of ASM2, that obviously opens up a whole host of questions about the possibility of the multiverse. That concept was teased in Far From Home – first by the lies of Mysterio, then by the appearance of J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson – and we do have Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness on the way, and that could maybe, possibly, somehow open the door for Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Wall-crawlers.

At present, this next Spider-Man picture is set for a December 2021 – and, as ever, expect more on this Jamie Foxx/Electro story as we get it.