Sony Pictures has released more images from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and we’re starting to get to the “flipbook stage” where, by the time the film is released in May, there will probably be so many images, clips, and trailers that you’ll be able to put together the movie without seeing it.  We’re only in January, and I would say that one of these images already takes things too far, but this strategy is nothing new for blockbusters.  It’s total secrecy during filming and then spilling almost everything afterwards.  I personally find it irritating, but I suppose it’s nice for the people who are super-excited for Spidey’s next adventure.

Hit the jump to check out the images, and if you want to jump even further ahead in the Spider-Man saga, there are also some new comments from writer Roberto Orci on how they’re handling The Sinister Six, Venom, and more.  The Amazing Spider-Man 2 stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti, Dane DeHaan, and Sally Field, and opens in 3D on May 2nd.

Images via Total Film.

Speaking to IGN, Orci says that although Drew Goddard is taking lead on Sinister Six, they’re all working on each other’s projects, which also includes The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and Venom.  He also says they’re still figuring out how to do it, but did mention the idea of using anti-heroes in the vein of The Shield’s Vic Mackey:

That's the discussion we're having right now; how exactly do you do that, and how do you do it without betraying the audience and making them all mean? Drew Goddard [Cabin in the Woods] is going to be writing that one, so it's kind of his problem. [Laughs] I'm kidding. We're all working on each other's stuff. So we want to be true to it, but there are some antiheroes in this day and age. There's been examples of that even on TV -- Vic Mackey on The Shield, one of the great antiheroes of all time. There are ways to milk that story. Audiences have seen everything. They've seen all the good guys who never do anything wrong. Is there a story in seeing the other side? That's the challenge, and that's the fun. I'm not sure how we're going to do that yet.

Orci also strongly indicated that villains will be coming out of Oscorp, including Venom:

Yeah. Oscorp plays an important part in how our villains get created, obviously, in the first one. So because Peter becoming Spider-Man came out of that, rather than saying, "And then this alien came from space," or whatever, they're doing human-hybrid, weird stuff at Oscorp. That's where Gwen Stacy works anyway as well. So the idea of it representing the good and the bad of science, that it can do great things, but it can also mess you up and do weird things and transform people -- as all science can be used for good or bad. So it's nice to have that organizing principal, but it wasn't like, "We must keep it at Oscorp." It flowed naturally from the story development.

So if you’re expecting the alien symbiote, you might want to let that go right now.

As for how they plan to include the villains from a narrative perspective, Orci says they want to make sure they have some thematic purpose rather than being randomly dropped in:

The way we do it is to make sure that their presence is based on a character thing that necessary for the theme of the movie. You can't just throw somebody in there to show up and make it harder on Spider-Man. The stories that we have for these guys, they're tragic villains, you're going to find out, a little bit. It's not as simple as "Evil dude shows up." Jamie Foxx has some very touching scenes. As long as I can describe their stories and character terms, then I feel like it's okay. If you can't, then you know you're having them crash-land out of nowhere, and what's that about?

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Finally, he explained how the “brain trust” is going to function with regards to the future Spider-Man movies:

So the idea of, let's get a core group of writers and producers and directors -- and even though I might not be the one writing Venom, I'll be in the meetings talking about how to make it interesting. We could be putting in easter eggs and planning ahead in the previous movies, and then that guy over there is going to write that movie, and Ed Solomon's gonna write another one with us. So having a committee, a board, of people who are creative, who are filmmaker, who just keep it all together, that's kind of going back to the way we started [in television].