Kirsten Dunst has revealed the identities of villains who'll appear in the next Spider-Man movie.

While promoting her latest film Elizabethtown the actress let slip: "We have really great people as the villains in this film, Thomas Haden Church and Topher Grace [as] Venom and Sandman." Dunst then paused and added, "Maybe I wasn't supposed to say that."

Although both actors were known to be linked to the movie, the characters that they would play had not previously been announced.

However, Dunst seemed to be unsure as to which baddie each actor would portray according to zap2it. She first hinted that Church would play Venom, an alien symbiote, and Grace would portray Sandman, a criminal who can turn his body to sand, but changed her mind when a journalist questioned her. "It's the other way around. You're right," she said.