“If I’m still playing Spider-Man when I’m 30, I’ve done something wrong”, Tom Holland said in November last year . That now 26 year old actor This leaves four years to let off steam as a friendly neighborhood spider in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, it is now clear that Sony has much bigger plans for its Spider-Man.
Holland won’t be returning just for a new Spider-Man trilogy. Further appearances in other MCU films are also planned. His participation in the previously announced Avengers double Avengers 5: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers 6: Secret Wars, which will be released in cinemas in 2025 and 2026, would be possible. Doesn’t all sound bad. Still, Sony has gone for the most boring path to Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Where are the new Spider-Man movies starring Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield?
The Marvel high-flyer opened the gateway to the multiverse on the big screen, bringing back the defunct Spideys of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. A never-foreseen crossover that brings us a little sample of what’s currently possible thanks to narrative tweaks (Multiverse) and brand unification (Sony’s legacy characters in the MCU) in Hollywood’s biggest franchise.
You can watch Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man return here:
Spider-Man: No Way Home – The Amazing Peter #3 Trailer (English) HD
Suddenly the dream of The Amazing Spider-Man 3 starring Garfield’s Peter Parker seemed real again after the promising sequel hit Sony in the mid-2010s got under the wheels and was replaced by the Holland reboot in The First Avenger: Civil War. Even Sam Raimi, the director of the Maguire films, was open to a second attempt after his broken Spider-Man 4.
With Spider-Man: No Way Home, Sony has reactivated two Marvel series believed dead overnight and even transferred them to the big MCU canon. But even after a global Grossing nearly $2 billion we wait in vain for a Marvel announcement with Maguire and/or Garfield. Sony insists on Holland as the sole torchbearer, although much more would be possible.
Sony is hesitant with its revived Spider-Man series
DC has done impressively in recent years attraction of several parallel existing universe demonstrated. When the MCU equivalent DCEU faltered, independent films like Joker and The Batman came to the rescue and diversified. Exactly this variety is not given when Sony Holland hunts through the next Spidey trilogy and looks back at the Avengers.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home
Sony is clinging to the winning formula that has done the studio good since Spider-Man: Homecoming: releasing a Spider-Man movie every year and lending the character to Marvel/Disney for various crossovers. With Maguire and Garfield, Sony could counter that stand on his own feetunafraid of the next Morbius to completely execute the shaky Venom universe.
The MCU connection is both a blessing and a curse for Holland’s Spider-Man. In the end, however, the character can never get out of the Shadow of parent franchise to step. This is most evident with characters such as Iron Man, Nick Fury and Doctor Strange, who act as guardians in the Holland solo films, as Marvel boss Kevin Feige has turned off so that young Peter Parker also adheres to the MCU rules.
No Way Out: Tom Holland is trapped in the MCU forever
Sooner or later, all the elements that make Holland’s Spidey special (coming-of-age/high-school setting, etc.) bow to the interchangeable MCU bombast and his depressing aesthetic. There is nothing to be seen here of the energy with which Marc Webb hurled Garfield’s net swinger through the urban canyons of New York in 3D images. Not to mention Raimi’s sophisticated and playful staging.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home
Spider-Man: No Way Home has presented tantalizing opportunities that, at worst, will never be realised. Instead, we’re getting more from Holland, who’s far too much a part of a big franchise machine to pose like Maguire in one lose a sad look can. His Spider-Man is a prisoner who can never stay because he always has the next MCU date.
Maguire and Garfield, on the other hand, promise a much more exciting future. They made their respective versions of Peter Parker more tangible than Holland. The return after all these years has tremendous storytelling potential. Only Sony has apparently not (yet) understood this.
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