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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is continuing in the pre-production phase, pushing through it with seemingly reckless abandon. Director Marc Webb was brought back in to director, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone signed back on, Jamie Foxx confirmed his involvement as bad guy Electro, Shailene Woodley signed on as the new Mary Jane and, hell, Dane Dehaan was just cast as the new Harry Osbourne last weekend. And if those last two castings don’t make you feel a hint of familiarity with The Amazing Spider-Man 2, than this next one certainly will; Uncle Ben will be returning for the sequel.

Martin Sheen himself confirmed the news of his involvement during an interview with Ireland’s The Late Late Show (via Slashfilm). Here’s the actor’s brief confirmation of his return:

“They’ve called me back, I don’t know what the part is gonna be, but I’m going to be ‘Uncle Ben’ once again in Spider-Man next year. We shoot it in February.”

So the actors report confirms two things; one, Uncle Ben will be coming back in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (as, I don’t know, this entire freaking article might have keyed you in on). And more importantly, he will be shooting his scene (and or scenes) in February, which makes a Spring 2013 start for production more than likely. This was expected though, considering how fast Sony is putting this production together.

Also expected is Uncle Ben’s return itself which, quite honestly, doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. Despite being killed within the first act of every single Spider-Man movie, he still manages to pop up for a scene or two in both Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3. That said, I really hope his “cameo” this time around will be something different than what we’re used to seeing…lord knows The Amazing Spider-Man 2 could benefit from differing from the other films a tad bit more. And since the whole “talks to Peter in a time of crisis during a dream” thing was done so well in Spider-Man 2, I really hope The Amazing Spider-Man 2 won’t steal this scene for verbatim. If they are bringing back Uncle Ben for another go around, they should at least try to mix it up a tad.

Which yes, is my subtle way of pushing through my Zombie Ben idea for the villain in the film. C’mon Sony…how could it fail?!

-Matthew