Donald Glover will return to the Spider-Man universe with his own movie spin-off about Hypno-Hustler. The actor appeared briefly in the first film of the new spider trilogy. And since then many have kept the hope of seeing him return with a very substantial role.
So good at the end of this week The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the actor and singer will give life to Hypno-Hustler. One of the lesser known villains of the wall-crawler. The project will be part of the new collection of films focused on other licenses from spider-man that Sony seeks to take advantage of for the construction of its new universe.
Although Hypno-Hustler is certainly unknown to many, his profile is suitable for Donald Glover to do something very interesting with him. He is a character who is related to the world of music and who has developed hypnotism skills that he uses to commit crimes and robberies to many people in his audience.
According to the confirmation Glover would work hand in hand with Myles Murphy, the son of Eddie Murphy, who will be in charge of configuring the script for the film. Thus Glover will join Dakota Johnson, Bad Bunny, Jared Leto and Tom Hardy in a cinematic universe of antagonists who have the opportunity to create their own stories, far from the ins and outs of the young Peter Parker.
Who is Hypno-Hustler?
Hypno-Hustler first appeared in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #24 in 1978. He barely has a dozen appearances in the comics, but he has the potential to work in a relevant way. The character was created by Bill Mantlo, also responsible for Rocket Racoon.
Hustler’s real name is Antoine Delson, who is the lead vocalist for the band Mercy Killers. In the comics, during a show at the nightclub called Beyond Forever, Delson is caught robbing the safe by the owner of the place. So he uses his special equipment to hypnotize him and get away with it.
Seeing that the trick works properly, what Delson does next with his band is to organize presentations to hypnotize his audience and obtain valuable belongings from them. Of course in one of those Peter Parker is close with his friends and his girlfriend. So he decides to confront him and stop his little criminal enterprise.
The upcoming Hypno-Hustler movie with Donald Glover does not yet have details, nor a production team. We are expected to get more substantial news in the coming year.
Luis Angel H. Mora My most stable relationship is with the movies, parties and music. I love writing about cinema, meeting new people and sharing ideas. Idealistic in every way, I guess that’s my Ascendant Aquarian trait.