MUMBAI: Following Anil Kapoor who plays the main villain in the Tom Cruise starrer Mission Impossible:4, Irrfan Khan has bagged the role of the main villain in the upcoming and yet untitled Spiderman film to be directed by Mark Webber.

Khan will be playing the role of Van Atter (one of the main villains in the film) and would clash on screen with the new Spiderman played by Andrew Garfield. Besides Khan, the film will also feature yet another villain Dr.Connors aka The Lizard played by Rhys Ifans. The new Spiderman film is expected to hit screens in 2012.

Incidentally, Khan has been a part of several Hollywood films like The Namesake, A Might Heart and Slumdog Millionaire.