SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Director Says MCU Trilogy Was An Extended Origin Story For Classic Spidey

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Director Says MCU Trilogy Was An Extended Origin Story For Classic Spidey

Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts shares his take on his trilogy being an extended origin story for Peter Parker, with the third chapter bringing the hero more in line with the comic books...

By JoshWilding - Aug 11, 2023 06:08 AM EST
Filed Under: No Way Home
Source: The Direct

Most fans agree that Marvel Studios' Spider-Man trilogy was a huge win for the iconic web-slinger, but some decisions were made along the way which didn't sit well with a lot of longtime fans. 

For starters, putting Peter Parker in a technologically advanced suit made by Iron Man saw the hero dubbed "Iron Boy." The hero becoming an Avenger was also a far cry from the years Spidey spent as an outcast from his fellow heroes. However, Spider-Man: No Way Home ended on a very comic-accurate note. 

No longer remembered by the world, Peter - now living in Manhattan - donned a homemade suit minus any Stark Industries technology and set out to protect the Big Apple as a street-level superhero. 

Talking in Spider-Man: No Way Home - The Art of the Movie, director Jon Watts explained how his trilogy ultimately serves as an extended origin story for the classic version of the wall-crawler. 

"When we were doing 'Homecoming,' the discussions were always about how we do something that you haven't seen before with Peter Parker," the filmmaker says. "That steers you down a couple different paths.

"[It] leads you to doing things like having his best friend find out his identity, and having his aunt find out, and then, at the end of the last movie, having the whole world find out."

"So that was a fun thing to play with these new aspects. But in the end, you know, it was nice to be able to have everything coalesce into, at its essence, the simple story of Spider-Man," Watts concludes. "We just really all took our time telling the first issue of 'Spider-Man' - that origin story."

Prior to the WGA strike beginning, Spider-Man 4 had begun taking shape. Rumour has it the movie will see Peter team up with Daredevil to battle The Kingpin, telling a classic Spidey story without any world-ending threats or a helping hand from Earth's Mightiest Heroes. 

Despite that, Tom Holland's Spider-Man is expected to be one of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty's lead characters. 

Spider-Man 4 doesn't currently have a release date.

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rebellion
rebellion - 8/11/2023, 6:18 AM
Lol. 3 films to make everyone forget about peter and start over. Idiotic.
Tonic24k
Tonic24k - 8/11/2023, 11:17 AM
@rebellion - Well no. Because the story is about him and his journey. Not everyone else in the world.
kider2
kider2 - 8/11/2023, 12:22 PM
@Tonic24k - Characters grow with their relationships.
IronSpider101
IronSpider101 - 8/11/2023, 7:09 PM
@rebellion - Yeah I cannot STAND this cop-out. Filmmakers have been doing it now for a couple of decades and it takes advantage of overzealous fanboys who will praise anything that has their character's name on it. They did it with Daniel Craig 007, they did it with the JJ Star Trek, they did it with Henry Cavill Superman and they did it with Tom Holland Spider-Man. I'm sure there are other examples though too.

First movie: A reboot. But this reboot doesn't have a take on the character, it just knows what makes it different from the last/previous takes. It gets generally positive reception, though has its critics. Aformentioned fanboys will defend it by going "Oh but this is the story of how he became that character. He had to go through this movie to become the hero we all know".

Second movie: Immediately proves those fanboys wrong by doubling down on all the weak elements of the previous instalment. The sequel is typically received a lot more poorly by critics and audiences.

Third movie: They contrive an ending where at the end, the hero becomes the hero you wanted to see at the end of the first movie. The creatives, and those fanboys who were running defense for the first movie come back and say "Aha, you see, it was a trilogy origin story this whole time!"


I've sincerely just never understood the fanboy attitude that says "It'll make sense once the sequel comes out." Force Awakens was another example. Imagine waiting for dessert to decide whether or not you enjoyed your dinner.

"Ah man, my chicken was undercooked and raw... but it'll all make sense once I've had the lava cake"



rebellion
rebellion - 8/12/2023, 3:25 AM
@IronSpider101 - amen to everything
JdiennoPSU
JdiennoPSU - 8/12/2023, 3:19 PM
@Tonic24k - journey before destination.
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 8/11/2023, 6:26 AM
Thank God for meme-obsessed idiots online, because if it weren't for them and their Bully Maguire shenanigans, they'd probably realize what a mid entry No Way Home really is.
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