Spider-Man: No Way Home Was Constantly Being Rewritten While Filming

In
a
new
interview,



Spider-Man:
No
Way
Home
lead
Tom
Holland
has
offered
some
insight
into
the
manic
way
that
the
MCU
outing
was
developed,
revealing
that
the
movie’s
script
was
undergoing
constant
rewrites,
even
while
filming.
According
to
the
actor,
it
took
some
time
before
all
of
the
actors
were
confirmed
to
be
involved,
and,
even
when
cameras
started
rolling,
some
of
them
still
had
not
yet
signed
on.

“Some
people
were
trying
to
figure
out
whether
they
wanted
to
do
it,
and
we
needed
all
of
them
or
none.”

As
the
recent
trailers
have
now
demonstrated,

Spider-Man:
No
Way
Home
will
pick
up
after
Peter
Parker’s
identity
as
Spider-Man
has
been
exposed,
leading
to
the
teen
requesting
the
help
of
Doctor
Strange.
Unfortunately,
things
quickly
go
wrong,
breaking
open
the
multiverse
and
allowing
supervillains
from
alternate
realities
who
have
previously
fought
a
Spider-Man
to
arrive
in
the
Marvel
Cinematic
Universe.
This
will
include
several
actors
from

Spider-Man
franchises
past,
including
Willem
Dafoe
as
Norman
Osborn/Green
Goblin,

Alfred
Molina
as
Otto
Octavius/Doctor
Octopus,
Thomas
Haden
Church
as
Flint
Marko/Sandman,
Rhys
Ifans
as
Curt
Connors/Lizard,
and
Jamie
Foxx
as
Max
Dillon/Electro,
with
these
actors’
involvement
no
doubt
being
the
all-or-none
element
of
the
script.

Holland
goes
on
to
reveal
that
the
decision
to
release

Spider-Man:
No
Way
Home
before

Doctor
Strange
in
the
Multiverse
of
Madness
even
required
changes
to
the
plot,
something
which
led
to
much
confusion
on
set. “You
could
ask
the
director, ‘What
happens
in
act
three?'”
Holland
said, “And
his
response
would
be, ‘I’m
still
trying
to
figure
it
out.'”
This
caused
some “crazy”
issues
during
the
epic
final
battle,
Holland
continued.

“I
kept
stopping
and
being
like, ‘I’m
so
sorry,
I
just
don’t
believe
what
I’m
saying.
We
sat
down,
we
went
through
it,
and
we
came
up
with
a
new
idea.
When
we
pitched
it
to
the
writers,
they
rewrote
it,
and
it
works
great.”

So,
the
question
remains,
how
much
of
these
issues
were
caused
by
the
attempt
to
bring
back
both
Tobey
Maguire
and
Andrew
Garfield
as
their
respective

alternate
Spider-Men?
While
Holland
has
been
batting
away
these
suggestions
left
and
right
for
some
time
now,
most
recently
saying
that “No
one
believes
me,
but
they’re
not
in
the
film,”
thanks
to
some
suspicious
editing
in
the
most
trailer
(along
with
various
other
pieces
of
evidence)
it’s
pretty
clear
that
they
will
make
an
appearance
at
some
point,
most
likely
during
the
finale.
Won’t
they…?
Surely…?

The
potential
involvement
of
both
Maguire
and
Garfield
would
have
had
huge
ramifications
on
the
direction
of

Spider-Man:
No
Way
Home,
with
the
multiversal
madness
and
how
it
concludes
in
the
Spidey
outing
bleeding
into

Doctor
Strange
2.
That
proves
it
then,
right?
Yes,

they’re
in
it.
Aren’t
they?

Directed
by
Jon
Watts
and
written
by
Chris
McKenna
and
Erik
Sommers,

Spider-Man:
No
Way
Home
stars
Tom
Holland,
Zendaya,
Benedict
Cumberbatch,
Jacob
Batalon,
Jon
Favreau,
Marisa
Tomei,
J.
B.
Smoove,
and
Benedict
Wong.

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.
This
comes
to
us
courtesy
of

GQ.