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Neil Patrick Harris, who provides the voice of Peter Parker in MTV's upcoming Spider-Man: The Animated Series, told SCI FI Wire that he's not basing his work on Tobey Maguire's performance in this summer's hit movie. "They want Spider-Man himself to be more of a street-talking, sh-t-talking basketball kind of guy, and for Peter Parker to be much more stammery and a different pitch," Harris (Starship Troopers) said in an interview. "They have specific inflections that they want, and it really doesn't have much to do with the film. It's a cartoon, so it's chock full of one-liners. It's fun that during the battles with the villains, he gets to comment on their wardrobe and their lack of skills."
Harris described some of the new villains that Spidey will face in his weekly adventures and confirmed that some of the characters would be voiced by rock stars. "Just by the nature of there being more than one plot, there's got to be more than one villain and more than one situation that he has to fight and win," he said. "We're on our fourth and fifth show, and they're doing a lot of music crossovers. So one of the villains last week was Rob Zombie, and I think Pink might do one. Since it's on MTV, they're doing the music crossovers as best they can. [Zombie] played the head of a bandit organization, a rogue organization that was trying to disrupt the city."
Harris added that fans can expect to see some favorite comic-book villains amongst the new characters. "They're bringing back Dr. Octopus and some regular characters, but we have to do 22 [episodes], so we have to keep adding new people." Spider-Man: The Animated Series will debut in the fall.
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from www.scifi.com/scifiwire
Neil Patrick Harris, who provides the voice of Peter Parker in MTV's upcoming Spider-Man: The Animated Series, told SCI FI Wire that he's not basing his work on Tobey Maguire's performance in this summer's hit movie. "They want Spider-Man himself to be more of a street-talking, sh-t-talking basketball kind of guy, and for Peter Parker to be much more stammery and a different pitch," Harris (Starship Troopers) said in an interview. "They have specific inflections that they want, and it really doesn't have much to do with the film. It's a cartoon, so it's chock full of one-liners. It's fun that during the battles with the villains, he gets to comment on their wardrobe and their lack of skills."
Harris described some of the new villains that Spidey will face in his weekly adventures and confirmed that some of the characters would be voiced by rock stars. "Just by the nature of there being more than one plot, there's got to be more than one villain and more than one situation that he has to fight and win," he said. "We're on our fourth and fifth show, and they're doing a lot of music crossovers. So one of the villains last week was Rob Zombie, and I think Pink might do one. Since it's on MTV, they're doing the music crossovers as best they can. [Zombie] played the head of a bandit organization, a rogue organization that was trying to disrupt the city."
Harris added that fans can expect to see some favorite comic-book villains amongst the new characters. "They're bringing back Dr. Octopus and some regular characters, but we have to do 22 [episodes], so we have to keep adding new people." Spider-Man: The Animated Series will debut in the fall.
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