Aside from ongoing anticipation/speculation surrounding Beyoncé’s Super Bowl performance, next month’s Oscars, and the recently greenlit Entourage movie(!)—what, Turtle and Vince don’t deserve to carouse with supermodels onscreen like the rest of us?—Hollywood has been quietly buzzing about casting rumors surrounding Spider-Man 2, Marc Webb’s next installment in the superhero reboot franchise. Yesterday, it was reported that Paul Giamatti—our favorite unofficial Robert Pattinson understudy—is in negotiations to play the villain Rhino in the sequel, which is scheduled for release next year. (“Rhino” may not be a handsomely named character, but it is an improvement over the actor’s 1994 N.Y.P.D. Blue credit: “Man in Sleeping Bag.”) If Giamatti signs on to the role, he will be joined by Jamie Foxx (as fellow villain Electro), and charming starring couple Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, as Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy.

Countering the excitement over these casting reports, James Franco—who co-starred in Sam Raimi’s preceding Spider-Man franchise—has offered his thoughts on last summer’s iteration, The Amazing Spider-Man, which some saw as an unnecessary installment. “Ehhhhhhh,” the actor offered MTV as his initial unimpressed reaction. “I mean, they could have strayed a little bit more from the original. It was like, ‘Why?’ I guess they made a lot of money. Congrats. Good for them. Sam and I moved on. We made Oz.” It bears noting that the closed caption for the entire sound bite will simply read, “Meow.”

Franco’s latest collaboration with Raimi is Oz the Great and Powerful, a fantasy adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s novelThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz, due in theaters this March. Fortunately for Franco, no cast members from the 1939 adaptation are available for derisive comment.