After Avengers: Endgame (Anthony and Joe Russo, 2019), the Marvel Cinematic Universe did not have a similar grouping of characters in the same movie. Until the premiere of Spider-Man: No Way Home at the end of last year. The third film starring Tom Holland brought together a wide variety of characters. Although it seemed enough, at some point in the production there were more names than expected.
Spider-Man: No Way Home integrated universes, through the different characters and actors summoned, in a single film. That, about which at first there were doubts in relation to how to fit so many roles, turned out in a good way. Beyond the convenience of the script, the film responds to what it raises in a convincing way. The result? One of the most important film events of recent years.
As this phenomenon is distanced, perspective is taken and some details that could not be revealed before are known. It was what happened with Andrew Garfield explaining the origin of one of the phrases of the encounter between the different versions of Spider-Man and it happens now that one of the writers confessed, without giving much detail, that there were more names than those thinking at the time of add more characters Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Spider-Man: No. Way Home could be bigger than seen
The information was learned through screenwriter Chris McKenna, who during an interview with The Wrap explained the following: “Honestly, I don’t know if we’re allowed to do it, but there were great (considerate) characters. But almost too big“.
Beyond studying that possibility, they wanted to look for something more compact, as explained by Chris McKenna:
“It was always about a balancing act of how we tell not only a story with all these amazing villains that we know we want to bring to this movie, the classics, but also, how do we keep this one of Tom Holland as Peter Parker so he doesn’t get completely overshadowed? Because at the end of the day, it’s not going to be a great Spider-Man movie if you’re not telling an emotional story. from peter parker“.
Chris McKenna
Spider-Man: No. Way Home It is an emotional film that, taking into account the previous two starring Tom Holland, was necessary within the story. Contrary to classic Spider-Man stories, this version did not have the point of suffering that is usually associated with the friendly neighbor. Because, within so much entertainment and heroic sense, there is also a lot of tragedy when it comes to Spider-Man. Digging deeper into the film, Chris McKenna commented:
“We had these riches… This giant idea with all these great actors, but we also had to tell a story that felt like we were telling a personal story for our main character.”
Chris McKenna
The feeling is that they did.