The Spider-Man: No Way Home - The Art of the Movie book just landed on shelves worldwide, and in it, the film’s director, Jon Watts, confirmed what audiences always suspected about the ending of the movie: it ends at the beginning.
the film’s director, Jon Watts, confirmed what audiences always suspected about the ending of the movie: it ends at the beginning.
I don’t understand what that means.
They mean that the three Spider-Man films have effectively become an origin trilogy for the Spider-Man that exists at the end of the movie - no more Avenger buddies, no more Stark tech, more of a solo friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
‘It ends at the beginning’ is a bit of a confusing way of expressing that - and I don’t think this was the intention of the trilogy when they set out - but I do think where No Way Home left things will make for a more interesting premise for Spider-Man 4. The MCU has done enormous galactic stakes to death - they can’t beat Thanos destroying half of all life in the universe (as Ant-Man 3 showed - it just doesn’t work). The only way to progress is to go back to a small scale and more personal stories and stakes, and Spider-Man 4 will be a great opportunity to get that right.
The phrasing is terrible. After reading the article, what they mean is that the ending was a full reset that lets them start over.
They consider the Tom Holland trilogy (so far) an “extended origin story”.
Took them 5 movies with Tom Holland Spider-Man but they finally have the origin done lol.
Just you wait until we get to the prequel septology dedicated to Uncle Ben getting shot.
Wasn’t it Sony wanting a reset in case no agreement was reached with Disney so they had free reign to take the story wherever that wanted?
I was under the impression that after the success of Spider verse that Sony was going to invest more in Miles Morales than Peter Parker and that the MCU can keep doing what it’s doing.
