Willem Dafoe Joins JUSTICE LEAGUE Cast, But Who is He Playing?

Looks like Zack Snyder, Warner Bros., and DC are big fans of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies. They already hired J.K. Simmons (who famously played J. Jonah Jameson in the web-slinging trilogy) to play Commissioner Gordon in their new superhero team-up film Justice League, and now THR reports that they've just brought on Willem Dafoe to star in the movie as well. Dafoe, of course, played Spidey villain Green Goblin in Raimi's films.

His role is being kept under wraps, but THR says he's playing a good guy who will appear in Justice League: Part One and Justice League: Part Two. Snyder has been absolutely stellar at casting in his superhero movies thus far, pulling in A-list talent across the board for both Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (even Watchmen had a terrific cast), so it's not surprising that he'd be able to pull in another big name actor like Dafoe here. He'll join Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, and Ray Fisher in the movie.

The big question, of course, is who will Dafoe be portraying? Here's where it gets tricky, because the inclination would be to assume he'll be playing a famous DC character, but Snyder has already shown that he's willing to just (spoiler alert for BVS) kill off an iconic character like Jimmy Olsen without thinking twice about it; treating a well-known character like that tells me that Snyder is a wild card who's capable of just about anything, so I can't even hazard a guess as to who Dafoe might be playing here. I'd love to hear your guesses, though, so sound off in the comments.