From social media platform mogul to webslinging hero, Andrew Garfield‘s stock has yet to reach its peak, and now the actor will add another project to his resume that will surely bring his name up a few more ticks. Variety broke the news that the actor will star alongside Ken Watanabe in Martin Scorsese‘s adaptation of Shusaku Endo‘s novel Silence. Like the novel, the film will center on Jesuits who spread Christianity in 17th century Japan.

Garfield will play Father Rodriguez, one of the priests who will attempt to spread the word of the Gospel, while Watanabe will play the priest’s interpeter. The report says that as soon as Scorsese completes his work on The Wolf of Wall Street, which is scheduled for a December release, he would start to film Silence in Summer 2014 for a holiday 2015 release.

Last week, we saw the first photos of Jamie Foxx as Electro on the set of the upcoming sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Yesterday, director Marc Webb tweeted a photo of Foxx as Max Dillon before his electrical transformation into the villainous Electro. Webb captioned the photo: “Day 52. My name is Max.” Shortly after, Webb released the first official look at Foxx as Max Dillon, Dane DeHaan tweeted the first photo of his character, Harry Osborn.

Check out the pictures below and tell us what you think!

Here’s your first look at Jamie Foxx as the Electro, the villain in Marc Webb‘s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (see photos here below). According to Spider-Man lore, Maxwell “Max” Dillon gained the ability to control electricity after being struck by lightning while working on a power line.

It doesn’t look like Webb’s take on Electro will involve any mishaps with power lines, but instead the product of further combining human and animal DNA. While people have been quick to toss out a Mr. Freeze reference from Batman & Robin, Foxx appears less frozen and more luminescent. He looks closer to Abe Sapien than Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dr. Victor Fries. You know what Foxx’s villain really looks like?

Sony has announced that The Amazing Spider-Man 2, directed by Marc Webb, has officially entered the production phase and has released the film’s official synopsis. The studio also confirmed a couple of new casting additions, one of which we reported on just days ago. Hit the jump to check out the plot description and the two new casting additions.

Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, and Sally Field all return to reprise their respective roles. Jamie Foxx, Dane Dehaan, and Shailene Woodley will join them in the highly anticipated sequel. In addition to those three, Paul Giamatti, who is rumored to play The Rhino, has been confirmed. Colm Feore (Chronicles of Riddick and Thor) also joins the cast.

The casting of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is about to take one very strange turn. Paul Giamatti is reportedly in talks to play the Rhino. If this actually happens, he would be joining Electro (Jamie Foxx) as a possible pair of foes to face off against the webslinger. Like Crazy star Felicity Jones is also rumored to be in talks to join the cast.

For those who may be unfamiliar with the hulking villain, The Rhino is a Russian hitman endowed with a powerful thick hide for defense equipped with a large razor sharp horn for offensive destruction. A constant threat to Spider-Man, the Rhino made his debut Amazing Spider-Man #41 in 1966.