Spider-Man: No Way Home Trivia | 40 facts about the movie

Spider-Man: No Way Home is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man.

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1. Spider-Man: No Way Home is an upcoming American superhero film.
2. It is based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man.
3. The movie is co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.
4. It is intended to be the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and the 27th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
5. The film is directed by Jon Watts, written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers.
6. Tom Holland stars as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, alongside Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jon Favreau, Jacob Batalon, Marisa Tomei, J. B. Smoove, Benedict Wong, Alfred Molina, Jamie Foxx, Thomas Hayden Church, Rhys Ifans and JK Simmons.
7. In the film, Parker asks Dr. Stephen Strange (Cumberbatch) to help make his identity as Spider-Man a secret following its public revelation at the end of Far From Home.
8. A third MCU Spider-Man film was intended as early as 2017, during production on Homecoming.
9. By August 2019, negotiations between Sony and Marvel Studios to alter their deal—in which they produce the Spider-Man films together—ended with Marvel Studios leaving the project.
10. However, a negative fan reaction led to a new deal between the two companies a month later.
11. Watts, McKenna, Sommers, and Holland were set to return at that time.
12. Filming began in October 2020 in New York City, before moving to Atlanta later that month. During filming, Foxx and Molina were revealed to be appearing in the film, reprising characters from past Spider-Man films.
13. The title was revealed in February 2021, before filming wrapped at the end of March.
14. Spider-Man: No Way Home is scheduled to be released in the United States on December 17, 2021, as part of Phase Four of the MCU.
15. A fourth Spider-Man film is in development.
16. In April 2020, Sony rescheduled the film to November 5, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
17. In June, Marisa Tomei confirmed she would return as May Parker along with Watts as director. She was hopeful that May’s work as a community organizer would be featured in the film.
18. The next month, Holland said production was planned to take place from late 2020 to February 2021.
19. Sony shifted the film’s release to December 17, 2021.
20. Tony Revolori was also confirmed to be reprising his role as Flash Thompson.
21. In early October, Jacob Batalon and Benedict Cumberbatch were set to reprise their MCU roles of Ned Leeds and Dr. Stephen Strange, while Jamie Foxx was set to return as Max Dillon / Electro from Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), with filming beginning later in the month.
22. Graeme McMillan from The Hollywood Reporter felt that Strange’s inclusion was not a coincidence considering the character’s connection to the multiverse and the casting of past Spider-Man film actors like Foxx.
23. This movie marks the end of Tom Holland’s contract with both Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios, but he’s said he’s willing to extend it due to the fact that he wants to keep being Spider-Man.
24. This film marks the first MCU trilogy to be directed by the same director, Jon Watts. All previous film franchises like Iron Man & Captain America had only two consistent directors throughout their trilogies.
25. Tom Holland helped to save this movie from cancellation by forcing renegotiations between Sony and Disney. Under the terms of the new deal, not only does Spider-Man: No Way Home still take place within the Marvel Cinemetic Universe (MCU), but the MCU Spider-Man character can also appear in future MCU movies, as well as cross universes into Sony’s own Spider-Man franchise.
26. On February 23rd, 2021, Tom Holland, Jacob Batalon, and Zendaya all posted images from the film along with three different titles on Instagram. Tom Holland’s post titled it “Spider-Man: Phone Home”. Jacob Batalon’s post titled it “Spider-Man: Home-Wrecker”. Zendaya’s post titled it “Spider-Man: Home Slice”. All the titles kept the use of the word “home” from the previous movies. The next day, a video with the three actors was released, showing Tom Holland walking out of Director Jon Watts’ office, thinking he gave them another fake title. As they walk out, the official title was revealed on a whiteboard to be “Spider-Man: No Way Home” along with various titles that they were thinking of
27. The teaser trailer released for Spider-Man: No Way Home beat the record for the world’s most-watched trailer in its first 24 hours online. Globally it got 355.5M views. The previous record was held by Avengers: Endgame, which had 289M views in its first 24 hours.
28. It’s the 27th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, originally meant to be the 28th in the series
29. This will mark Jon Favreau’s 10th involvement in the MCU after the Iron Man trilogy (2008-2013), The Avengers quadrilogy (2012-2019), and the Spider-Man films (2017-2021).
30. This is the second time that Alfred Molina has been cast in the role of Dr. Octopus. He first played the super-villain 17 years ago in Spider-Man 2 (2004).
31. This will be the second Spider-Man film, after Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) that co-creator Stan Lee won’t have a cameo in, since he passed away on November 12th, 2018; Avengers: Endgame (2019) was Stan Lee’s final cameo
32. The first trailer has become the most watched trailer received 355.5M global views in its first 24 hours, surpassing the previous record-holder Avengers: Endgame, which drove 289M views.
33. On 22nd August 2021 the trailer for the movie — or some version of it was reportedly leaked online primarily on TikTok. Massive tweets and memes surfaced online in the wake of the leak. Various copies of the trailer have been removed by Sony Pictures on copyright grounds. Tom Holland himself appeared to address the leak with a simple but to-the-point message on his Instagram Story. “You ain’t ready”
34. On August 22nd, the trailer of the movie was leaked on the internet. However, the special effects of the footage were not finished and the quality was low. The real trailer dropped just a few hours later
35. When Peter Parker is suiting up on top of the car, there is a taxi cab behind him. The taxi’s numbers read 1228. This is a reference to Stan Lee’s birthday which is December 28, 1922.
36. made an Instagram post displaying the trailer in the same ‘phone inception style’ shown in the leaked version. He captioned this post “The way the director intended”, joking at the fact that it was leaked the day before
37. Tom Holland’s 6th MCU Film following Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) & Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019).
38. Jon Favreau’s 7th MCU film as Happy Hogan following Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Iron Man 3 (2013), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Endgame (2019) & Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
39. After the trailer’s release, a rumor arose that Charlie Cox was returning as Daredevil in the film, reprising his role from the now-defunct Marvel Television-produced Netflix show. However, these rumors were first debunked by Cox himself, and later by the IMAX trailer of the film.
40. Coincidentally, the film will be released in the tenth-year anniversary of the canceled Spider-Man 4. After the box-office disappointment of Spider-Man 3 (2007), Sony Pictures scrapped any plans of a sequel and instead rebooted the franchise with The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). Spider-Man 4 was scheduled for a 2011 release.