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Why no crew cut for J. Jonah Jameson?


Did J.K. Simmons ditch the hairpiece so that the MCU version of JJJ (i.e. an Alex Jones type of internet pundit/blogger) wasn't TOO similar the one that he portrayed in the Sam Raimi movies?

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id say so

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They should have kept it. That's the way the character looks in the comics. I could understand if the reverse happened -- Raimi made him bald but the original comic book version had hair so they were making him more accurate to the source material, but the Raimi version was spot on so they should have kept the same look.

Alex Jones has hair, so bald JK Simmons = "MCU version of Alex Jones" makes no sense at all.

Also, bringing in a previous actor to reprise his role makes it possible to pretend that Tobey Macguire Spider-Man is taking place in the same universe.

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he is the perfect Jameson.

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bringing in a previous actor to reprise his role makes it possible to pretend that Tobey Macguire Spider-Man is taking place in the same universe


But he's not reprising the role

He's playing a BALD J. Jonah - seriously that's why he's bald in my opinion. Because (A) by now Simmons is a big enough name that we all know he's actually bald and (B) by making J. Jonah bald, the filmmakers are telling us that this is a different J. Jonah from the Raimi version.

Same actor, slightly different character - think of Blackadder (same actor playing his own descendants)

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