The “Spider-Man” reboot has a lead, a love interest and, now, a bad guy. Rhys Ifans, the slouching British actor announced earlier this week as the project’s unnamed baddie, will be playing the Lizard, according to The Wrap.

The Lizard is, as you might imagine from his name and the picture above, a gigantic lizard. He’s actually a scientist named Curt Connors who loses his arm, tries some wacky experiments to regain it and, as often happens in this situations, winds up mutating into a velociraptor. (The Lizard is part of a bigger trend in Spider-Man’s villains, where he faces quasi-anthropomorphic baddies named the Lizard, the Scorpion, the Rhino, et cetera.) If I recall correctly, the character is friendly with Peter Parker, which is why Spidey always winds up protecting his wife and son.

Credit to Marc Webb and Sony: They could have easily gone back to the Green Goblin with this one (or, worse, Venom), but are instead trying something markedly different. The Lizard actually appeared in Sam Raimi’s original trilogy: Dylan Baker played his human alter ego in both sequels, seemingly setting up the Lizard’s appearance at some point in the series.

(It’s worth noting that the villains that worked in the first films — the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus — were humanistic in nature. The more outlandish the sci-fi (like a giant sand monster or an alien Topher Grace), the less the villains resonated. Of course, an outlandish villain (like just Sandman) wasn’t the third film’s only problem by a long shot.)

Since the film reportedly is working with a much smaller budget, it’ll be interesting to see how they go about tackling the Lizard, who will require some solid CGI to properly pull off.