[9], McKenna and Sommers began working on the script in earnest by December 2019. Vary of Variety noted that these reports were not confirmed and questioned whether the returning actors would be making more than cameo appearances. [109][additional citation(s) needed] The next month, Holland described it as "the most ambitious standalone superhero" film,[97] and again denied the rumors that Maguire and Garfield would appear. Before Parker can cure anyone else, his spider-sense goes off. [196] It was also the highest-selling film on physical media for 2022 in the US according to The NPD Group. Directed By Jon Watts Cast Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jacob Batalon Release Date December 17, 2021 Posters Featured Video Related Movies Marvel Insider Watch, The film also passed the presale records of The Rise of Skywalker in Poland and No Time to Die in Portugal. [109] Hannibal Buress was revealed to be reprising his role as gym teacher Coach Wilson,[112] with Buress releasing a music video in August 2021 revealing that he had filmed scenes in Atlanta. Theres no way well be able to avoid spoilers for 20 days while we wait. [213], Amelia Emberwing of IGN gave the film 8 out of 10, stating that its "impact on the universe as a whole, as well as the overall emotional beats, all feel earned" while praising the performances of Dafoe, Molina, and Foxx. "[60] However, after this fan reaction continued at Disney's biennial convention D23, and at the urging of Holland who personally spoke to Disney CEO Bob Iger and Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group chairman Tom Rothman,[61] the companies returned to negotiations. [b] Strange prepares to reverse the contained spell and send the villains back to their respective universes, but Parker argues that they should first cure the villains of the insanity that would lead to their deaths, to possibly change their fates upon their return. [63], Discussing the new deal in October, Iger attributed it to the efforts of Holland as well as the fan response to the end of the original deal. The group finds this universe's Parker, nicknamed "Peter-One", who is ready to give up and send the villains home to die. [39] Watts served as a stand-in for Church on-set by providing motion-capture reference to the uncredited body double who physically replaced Church in the role. Sony wanted to expand the deal to include more films while keeping the same terms of the original agreement. [49] Jake Gyllenhaal appears as Quentin Beck / Mysterio via archive footage from Far From Home. He also wondered if Sony was wary of committing marketing that noted the film's December 2021 release date amid the resurgence of the COVID-19 Delta variant. December 15, 2021. [65] Zendaya was confirmed to be reprising her role as MJ from the previous films in the sequel. [190] ComicBook.com's Russ Burlingame said the poster was what "we've all been waiting for" and "a big change in the way [Sony] initially promoted the movie" since they "continued to play coy" on the cameos after the film had released. The story tunnels Peter Parker through a process. In the film, Parker asks Dr. Stephen Strange (Cumberbatch) to use magic to make his identity as Spider-Man a secret again following its public revelation at the end of Far From Home. Jon Watts & More Return For Spider-Man: No Way Home . WebThe Japan release date is January 7th 2022. He also felt the trailer played into "Marvel's ongoing reluctance to let Tom Holland's Spider-Man star in his own Spider-Man movies" since the trailer gave Parker "zero memorable moments" amongst all of its elements. Batalon and Zendaya note that Holland could not be trusted with the actual title since he had "accidentally" revealed the second film's title. He believed it was already "getting a little more clear for people [as to] where we're headed" at that time and added that the release of No Way Home would reveal more of this plan. McKenna felt this made it "even more frightening, to start fooling around with these things, because it's the fear of the unknown". [92] To reduce interactions between cast and crew members on set during the pandemic, the production reportedly relied on "innovative new technology" that scanned actors into a visual effects system that can apply make-up and costumes to actors during post-production. [224] In India, the film's box office on its opening day was 320 million (US$4.0million) to 345 million (US$4.3million), beating Endgame and the Indian film Sooryavanshi (2021). The re-release celebrates 60 years of Spider-Man in comics and 20 years of Spider-Man in film,[186] and features approximately 13 minutes of additional and deleted scenes. Directors Jon Watts Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jamie Foxx Genres Science Fiction, [143] Regarding the use of these other themes, Giacchino did not want their use to be fan service and finding ways to include them in a "very targeted" way. [81][79] On October 23, filming occurred in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. [185], Spider-Man: No Way Home was released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on digital on March 15, 2022,[191] and on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on April 12, 2022. Strange explains that the corrupted spell summoned people from other universes within the multiverse who know Spider-Man's identity. WebMarvel Studios' Spider-Man: Homerun | First Trailer Concept (2021) Hiro Re 43.7K subscribers Subscribe 45K views 2 years ago Are you saying there is a multiverse? Strange reluctantly casts the spell, and everyone returns to their respective universesincluding Eddie Brock,[c] who unknowingly leaves behind a piece of the Venom symbiote. [220] Spider-Man: No Way Home returned to first place at the box office, earning $1.8 million on the first day of the release of The More Fun Stuff Version,[221] and went on to finish third with $6.5 million over the four-day Labor Day weekend, finishing behind Top Gun: Maverick and Bullet Train. The movie carries from the get go a feeling of consequence and a farewell to how things used to be. [16] Norman Osborn / Green Goblin from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy was not the main villain of the film in the first version of the script, despite still appearing as an antagonist; after the film lost "other characters", McKenna and Sommers concluded that the Green Goblin "had to be" the main villain and rewrote the script to give him a second chance to replicate his actions in Spider-Man (2002), but in a darker way related to Holland's version of Spider-Man. The video ends on a whiteboard showing the film's true title, among various other titles featuring the word "home" that were apparently considered. December 15, 2021. [234] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a rare "A+" grade on an A+ to F scale, the first live-action Spider-Man film and the fourth MCU film overall to earn the score after The Avengers (2012), Black Panther (2018), and Avengers: Endgame. [259] That October, Holland said No Way Home was being treated as "the end of a franchise" that began with Homecoming, with any additional solo films featuring the MCU Spider-Man characters to be different from the first trilogy of films and feature a tonal change. [178] In November 2021, the film was reported to be getting a theatrical release in China, making it the first Phase Four film to do so as Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Eternals were not released in the country,[179] though as of February2022[update], there is no release date,[180] in part because of diplomatic tensions between China and the United States,[181][180] including the U.S. diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. [227] As of February27, 2022[update], the film's largest markets are the United Kingdom ($127.3million), Mexico ($76.2million), Australia ($67.9million), France ($65.2million), and South Korea ($63.1million). [202] The More Fun Stuff Version was released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on digital on October 18, 2022 as Spider-Man: No Way Home Extended Cut,[203] when it also began streaming on Starz. Germany. [22], At the beginning of November, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. revealed that he would be reprising his role as Jason Ionello from Homecoming and Far From Home in a similar role to those films that would have "very little to do with the core" story. [3][4] It is the highest-grossing film of 2021,[205] the seventh-highest-grossing film of all time,[206] the third-highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada,[207] the highest-grossing Spider-Man film, and the highest-grossing film released by Sony. [94] Cumberbatch began shooting his scenes in Atlanta by late November, before beginning work on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness which began filming that month in London. [70] In April 2020, Sony rescheduled No Way Home's release to November 5, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [105] Around Christmas 2020, McKenna and Sommers rewrote the introductions of Maguire and Garfield as well as much of the third act in time for those actors to start filming. The new Spider-Man movie arrived in US theaters on December 17, 2021, a day after the UK and Dec. 16 screenings Peter-One realizes that the only way to protect the multiverse is to erase Peter Parker from everyone's memory and requests Strange to do so while promising MJ and Ned that he will find them again. But when a spell goes wrong, Peter is forced to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man. It is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and the 27th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). [262] Feige said in February 2023 that they had a story for the film with "big ideas" and that writers had begun work on it.[263]. Peter-Two stops him, but gets stabbed by the Goblin. If the character is to become the next Tony Stark, this is the way to etch a few more scars into a more interesting hero's facade. Sommers said, "Once it was collectively decided that we were going to take this swing, we had to commit and we had to do what was right for the story." In the United Kingdom, the film outsold No Time to Die three times in the same twelve-day span before their release, while Brazil's ticket sale was 5% above Endgame at the same point. He then discovers that the Goblin persona retook control of Osborn, who convinces the uncured villains to betray Parker. [120] In September 2021, Garfield again denied he was in the film, saying, "No matter what I say it's either going to be really disappointing for people or it's going to be really exciting". Not too surprising, but it is said that the untitled Spider-Man 3 will have the word Home as part of its official title. [162] The trailer had 355.5million global views in its first 24 hours, becoming the most viewed trailer in that time period. [146] In late February 2021, Holland, Batalon, and Zendaya released three stills featuring their characters from the film alongside fake logos with the titles Spider-Man: Phone Home, Spider-Man: Home-Wrecker, and Spider-Man: Home Slice, respectively. Thomas Haden Church reprises his role as Flint Marko / Sandman, a small-time thief from Raimi's Spider-Man 3 who received an ability to transform into sand. As Norman Osborn arrives and attacks, Strange teleports Parker back to the Sanctum and locks Octavius in a cell next to Curt Connors. [132] Dunst said she was not in the film,[133] but would "never say no" to reprising her role of Mary Jane Watson. [42], Reprising their roles from previous MCU Spider-Man films are Angourie Rice as Betty Brant, Parker's classmate and Ned's ex-girlfriend;[43] Hannibal Buress as Coach Wilson, Midtown School of Science and Technology's gym teacher;[44] Martin Starr as Roger Harrington, Parker's academic decathlon teacher;[45] J. Every Spider-Man Suit Confirmed & Rumored For No Way Home Every Spider-Man Suit Confirmed & Rumored For No Way Home By Cooper Hood Updated Aug 30, 2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home will feature multiple versions of the Spider-Man suit for Tom Holland to wear. [231], The film also set records in Mexico with $7million in the first-day ticket sale, which was 40% above Endgame. [232], The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 93%, with an average score of 7.9/10, based on 425 reviews. Spider-Man 4 potential release date, cast and more - Digital Spy December 13, 2021 (Los Angeles, California) Azerbaijan. [62] Sony and Disney announced a new agreement at the end of September which would allow Marvel Studios and Feige to produce another MCU Spider-Man film for Sony with Amy Pascal, scheduled for July 16, 2021. The film was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on December 15, and in the United States on December 17, where it opened in 4,325 theaters including in IMAX and other premium large formats. [193][191] The home media includes a gag reel and various behind-the-scenes featurettes, including two roundtable discussions: one with Dafoe, Molina, and Foxx, and another with Holland, Maguire, and Garfield. [95][96] Filming ran for seven-to-eight weeks using the working titles Serenity Now and The November Project, before a break during the 2020 Christmas season. [123][124][125] Feige said there was a lot of coordination between the Let There Be Carnage and No Way Home teams to create the scene,[126] which was directed by Watts during the production of No Way Home. [42] Holland's brother Harry was set to make a cameo as a thief, but his scenes were cut from the original theatrical release. This surpassed the record of Avengers: Endgame (289million views) and more than doubled the views for the Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer (135 million). The film received a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 94th Academy Awards, among numerous other accolades. "[244] In contrast, Bilge Ebiri of Vulture called the film "aggressively mediocre", but praised Dafoe who he said "once again gets to have some modest fun with his character's divided self" and Garfield, calling him a "genuine delight" and naming his the film's best performance. Spider-Man: No Way Home was released in UK cinemas on Wednesday 15th December 2021. [43] Later that month, Stone denied her involvement in the film. In its opening weekend, it grossed $260million, surpassing Avengers: Infinity War ($257.7million) to become the second-highest domestic box office opening of all time. No Way Home is many things at it's core, all of them very well stitched together. Spider-Man: No Way Home was one of the many movies disrupted by the pandemic, and its release has jumped around a fair bit. A win for Sony, a win for Disney, a win for the fans." [99] At that time, Collider reported that Maguire and Garfield would appear in the film alongside Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson from Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy from the Amazing Spider-Man films. By Matt McGloin / Friday, April 17, 2020 - 11:16PM. It is, first and foremost, a Spider-Man coming of age story. [72], Second unit filming occurred from October 14 to 16, 2020, in New York City,[77][78][79] under the working title Serenity Now,[80][78] to capture visual effects plates and establishing shots. Their statement acknowledged that this could change in the future, thanked Feige for his work on the first two films, and said they appreciated "the path [Feige] has helped put us on, which we will continue. [122], In early October, many commentators expected Tom Hardy to reprise his roles as Eddie Brock and Venom from Venom (2018) and Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), after the Let There Be Carnage mid-credits scene showed the characters being transported from their universe (the SSU) to the MCU. [5] Disney was reportedly co-financing 25% of the film in exchange for 25% of its profits, while retaining the character's merchandising rights.