Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts opened up about how he managed to build a major scene for the blockbuster film.
The third film in Tom Holland’s Marvel trilogy about the web-slinging superhero welcomed previous actors who played the iconic role: Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.
In conversation with the Collider, Watts revealed that while they were working on bring all three web-slingers on the same screen, he came across a fan-art on Reddit that aligned with his original idea.
"There had been rumors that Tobey and Andrew were going to be in the movie, and this is while we’re shooting," Watts shared. "We were writing the script, and we were working on where we wanted to reveal the guys, and it always seemed like Peter's going to be sad because Aunt May has just died, and that the portals are going to open, and the two Spider-Men are going to step out."
In the movie, Peter Parker had sought Doctor Strange for help, but a spell goes wrong, which results in the merging of alternate universes, brining in dangerous foes and including Maguire and Garfield’s Spider-Mans.
"It’s probably a rooftop somewhere. It’s all sort of hazy. You’re still trying to figure it out," Watts explained the fan art. "It was on a rooftop. It was sad, two Doctor Strange portals were open and two Spider-Men are stepping out."
The fan art convinced that director that he could not go forward with that idea if that's "exactly what everyone thinks we’re going to do, we absolutely can’t do that".
Hence, he wrote a different script which made the final cut. The Spider-Men appear from the portal at Ned's Filipino grandma's house in Queens.
"It made perfect sense in the story because it’s kind of the first time we leave Peter's narrative. We don’t know what’s happened to [Tom’s Peter]. We’re with Ned, we’re with MJ. They have to lay low," Watt said about the scene.
Holland is now gearing up for the film's fourth instalment, Spider-Man: Brand new Day, which is set to release in July 2026.
