Spider-Man: No Way Home is a 2021 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and is the 27th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Jon Watts and written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man alongside Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Benedict Wong, Tony Revolori, Marisa Tomei, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire. In the film, Parker asks Dr. Stephen Strange (Cumberbatch) to make his identity as Spider-Man a secret again with magic after its public revelation in Far From Home, but this breaks open the multiverse and allows five supervillains from alternate realities to enter Parker's universe.
Plot[]
After Quentin Beck posthumously frames Peter Parker for murder and reveals his identity as Spider-Man, Parker, his girlfriend MJ, best friend Ned Leeds, and aunt May are interrogated by the Department of Damage Control. Lawyer Matt Murdock gets Parker's charges dropped, but the group grapples with negative publicity. After Parker, MJ, and Ned's MIT applications are rejected, Parker goes to the Sanctum Sanctorum to ask Stephen Strange for help. Strange suggests a spell that would make people forget Parker is Spider-Man. Parker repeatedly requests alterations to let his loved ones retain their memories, which corrupts the spell, but Strange contains it and makes Parker leave.
Parker goes to convince an MIT administrator to reconsider MJ and Ned's applications, but is suddenly attacked by Otto Octavius. Octavius rips Parker's nanotechnology from his Iron Spider suit, which bonds with his mechanical tentacles and allows Parker to disable them. As Norman Osborn arrives and attacks, Strange teleports Parker back to the Sanctorum and locks Octavius in a cell next to Curt Connors. Strange explains that the corrupted spell summoned people from other universes who know Spider-Man's identity, and orders Parker, MJ, and Ned to find and capture them.
As Parker captures Max Dillon and Flint Marko, Osborn reclaims control of himself from his split Green Goblin personality. He goes to a F.E.A.S.T. building, where May comforts him before Parker retrieves him. While discussing their battles with Spider-Man, Osborn, Octavius, and Dillon realize that they were pulled from their universes just before their deaths. Strange prepares a spell that will send the villains back to their respective universes, but Parker argues that they should first cure the villains' powers and insanity to prevent their deaths upon their return. Parker steals the boxed spell, traps Strange in the Mirror Dimension, and, with May, takes the villains to Happy Hogan's apartment. He successfully cures Octavius, but Osborn's Goblin persona takes control and convinces the uncured villains to betray Parker. As Dillon, Marko, and Connors escape, Osborn injures May, who tells Parker that "with great power, there must also come great responsibility" before dying.
Ned discovers he can create portals using Strange's sling ring, which he and MJ use to try to locate Parker. They instead find two other versions of Parker who were also summoned by Strange's spell, nicknamed "Peter-Two" (from Osborn, Octavius, and Marko's universe) and "Peter-Three" (from Connors and Dillon's universe). Ned and MJ find Parker and comfort him while the other Parkers share stories of losing loved ones; they encourage Parker to fight in May's honor.
The three Parkers develop cures for the remaining villains and lure Dillon, Marko, and Connors to the Statue of Liberty, where Peter-Two and Parker cure Marko and Connors, respectively, while Octavius arrives to help and cures Dillon, after which Peter-Three reconciles with Dillon. Ned frees Strange from the Mirror Dimension, but Osborn arrives and destroys the boxed spell, rupturing the barrier separating universes. While Strange works to maintain the barrier, an enraged Parker attempts to kill Osborn, but Peter-Two stops him. Peter-Three and Parker inject Osborn with his cure, restoring his sanity. Parker realizes that the only way to protect the multiverse is to erase himself from everyone's memory and requests that Strange do so, while promising MJ and Ned that he will find them again. The spell is cast, and everyone returns to their respective universe—including Eddie Brock, who leaves behind a piece of the Venom symbiote. Two weeks later, Parker visits MJ and Ned to reintroduce himself, but decides against it. While mourning at May's grave, he has a conversation with Hogan and is inspired to carry on, making a new suit and resuming his vigilantism.
Cast[]
- Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
- Zendaya as Michelle Jones
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange
- Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds
- Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan
- Jamie Foxx as Max Dillon/Electro
- Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin
- Alfred Molina as Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus
- Benedict Wong as Wong
- Tony Revolori as Flash Thompson
- Marisa Tomei as May Parker
- Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
- Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
- Angourie Rice as Betty Brant
- Arian Moayed as Agent Albert Cleary
- Paula Newsome as MIT Assistant Vice Chancellor
- Hannibal Buress as Andre Wilson
- Martin Starr as Roger Harrington
- J.B. Smoove as Julius Dell
- J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson
- Rhys Ifans as Curt Connors/Lizard
- Thomas Haden Church as Flint Marko/Sandman
- Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock
- Mary Rivera as Ned's Lola
- Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock/Venom (mid-credits scene; uncredited)
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Quentin Beck/Mysterio (archive footage; uncredited)
- Dawn Michelle King as E.D.I.T.H. (archive audio; uncredited)
- Pat Kiernan as Himself (archive audio; uncredited)
The More Fun Stuff Version[]
An extended cut of the film, subtitled The More Fun Stuff Version, was announced in June 2022. The re-release celebrates 60 years of Spider-Man in comics and 20 years of Spider-Man in film, and features approximately 13 minutes of additional and deleted scenes. The additions include: an introduction from Holland, Maguire, and Garfield; additional scenes of Parker and May being interrogated by the Department of Damage Control; the scene with Holland's brother Harry as a thief that was cut from the original release; Daily Bugle reports of Parker's first day back at school and the arrivals of Dillon and Marko; additional scenes of Parker at school; Brant interviewing Parker, his teachers, and his classmates; additional scenes in the basement of the New York Sanctum; a scene featuring May, Parker, and the villains in an elevator while on the way to Hogan's apartment; an additional scene with Murdock; additional scenes of the three Parkers; and a new post-credits scene, replacing the Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness teaser trailer, which showcases the effects of Strange's second spell.
The More Fun Stuff Version was released in theaters beginning August 31, 2022, in Indonesia, followed by the United States and Canada, among other countries, on September 1, and then continuing to release in a number of other markets through September 9. It will then be released in Italy on September 18, in Spain on September 23, and in South Korea on October 6. The poster for the extended cut was considered an improvement from the original release's marketing, since it was able to feature all of the characters previously kept a secret leading up to the film's release. Shrishty Mishra at Collider said it was an "Avengers-style poster [with] a perfect blend of the multiverse feels, combined with the 'Where's Waldo' effect". Anthony Lund of MovieWeb called it an "epic poster that [the fans] have been calling out for". 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.
Sequel[]
Spider-Man: No Way Home will be followed by a sequel Spider-Man 4 which is in development.
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Trivia[]
- This is the twenty seventh film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- This is the highest grossing film of 2022.
- This is the highest grossing Spider-Man film as well as the highest grossing Sony film.
- This is the second Spider-Man film to gross 1 Billion dollars worldwide the first being Spider-Man: Far From Home.
- This is the first film to gross a billion dollars at the box office during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
- This is one of the few MCU films to reach 1 Billion worldwide the others were The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther, Captain Marvel and Spider-Man: Far From Home.
- The first trilogy in the MCU to have the same director for all three films followed by the Ant-Man trilogy directed by Peyton Reed and the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy directed by James Gunn.
- This is the fourth appearance of Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man in fourteen years since Spider-Man 3 (2007).
- This is the third appearance of Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man in seven years since The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).
- This is the fourth appearance of Willem Dafoe's Spider-Man in fourteen years since Spider-Man 3 (2007)
- This is the second appearances of Doctor Octopus in seventeen years since Spider-Man 2, Sandman in fourteen years since Spider-Man 3, Lizard in nine years since The Amazing Spider-Man, and Electro in seven years since The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
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| Spider-Man (1977), Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978), Spider-Man (1978), Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge (1981), Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Venom (2018), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Morbius (2022), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2022), Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2024) |
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| Black Widow (2021), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), Eternals (2021), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) |