Marvel Studios Concept Artist Talks SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME's Final Spidey Suit And Ambitious Future Plans

Marvel Studios Concept Artist Talks SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME's Final Spidey Suit And Ambitious Future Plans

Spider-Man: No Way Home concept artist Ryan Meinerding has explained how he approached the web-slinger's final swing suit, revealing he experimented with an idea which could be revisited in Spider-Man 4.

By JoshWilding - Aug 07, 2023 01:08 PM EST
Filed Under: No Way Home

In the closing moments of Spider-Man: No Way Home, we followed Peter Parker as he moved into his New York City apartment and became the classic Amazing Spider-Man, homemade suit and all. 

It's widely been described as the wall-crawler's best big screen costume, largely because it looks like it's been torn straight out of the comic books.

Marvel Studios Head of Visual Development Ryan Meinerding is credited with creating the design and explained his approach to that suit in Spider-Man: No Way Home's new "Art of" book. 

"It's a classic red-and-blue suit with a spider that feels more grown-up - a little bit influenced by the spiders that he saw on Tobey and Andrew's suits," Meinerding explains. "The journey that he's been on, the pain that he's been through losing both Tony and May and then losing his friends at the end has allowed him to get to a place where he is not just the friendly neighbourhood kid Spider-Man."

"Now he's more of a grown-up Spider-Man. He is owning that identity in a strong way. It's such a big movie, and ending on something like that feels right, it feels like it's earned. Now we have a fully-fledged Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe who is classic."

The artist goes on to reveal that he created a number of variations of this costume, exploring different spider symbols and colour options. That included attempting to bring a Steve Ditko-inspired Spidey to screen, where the blue is visible only at the edges, and the material appears mostly black.

"The challenge with that one," Meinerding says, "is just how you get that in the real world. It's still in the back of my head."

"I'm always going to be trying to figure out how we can do that. I know there's some material that's going to exist someday that we're going to be able to do it with and it's going to be super cool." 

Chances are Spidey will get yet another new suit when he returns to the MCU, though we don't currently know when that will be. Tom Holland was in talks for Spider-Man 4 prior to the strikes beginning and is expected to be a lead character in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty

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