How No Way Home Could Be a ‘Fitting Ending’ for Tom Holland’s Spider-Man
No Way Home writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers recently suggested that the latest Spider-Man movie might be the most fitting ending for Tom Holland’s Spider-Man.
No Way Home gives a fitting ending to Tom Holland’s web-slinger
“It’s ended in a place where it could feel like a satisfying to this particular Spider-Man, or it definitely could keep going,” Sommers told The Hollywood Reporter. “We get this team together in a room — and again, each one of these movies has had a big thing from the previous to react to. To be a story engine. If there were to be another one, we have this big change at the end that would be a huge story engine to what comes next.”
Sommers went on to add that, while he doesn’t have any idea if there will be more Spider-Man movies starring Tom Holland or not, he appreciates that No Way Home serves as “a satisfying conclusionthan just another really fun incident for another story.”
McKenna echoed Sommers’ sentiments, revealing “I think it’s a fitting ending if it had to end this way. We never know. ‘Oh, is Tom doing another one? Will we be a part of it?’ At a certain point, we just got to keep our eye on the one in front of us. ‘Is this a satisfying story that doesn’t just feel like we are ending on a cliffhanger that is trying to trick you into the next one?'”
He also revealed that No Way Home might serve as the end of the story as Holland’s Spider-Man finally has to make a big sacrifice.
“There are all these Marvel movies about him trying to figure out what it is to be a hero, what it is to be Spider-Man, what it is to be Peter Parker, how to balance both, how to have it all,” McKenna continued. “He gets to have it all at the end of the last movie, right before that tag, and then it’s all stripped away. ‘Oh no! What are they going to do next time?’ This one feels like it’s more mature because it really is, as Doctor Strange says, ‘You are trying to have it all. You can’t have it all. You’ve got to make a choice.'”
McKenna concluded, “He has chosen this life. He could spill the beans and get MJ and Ned back and he could convince them of everything and have everything he wanted when he walked into Doctor Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum. He could get it, but now he has a choice and he doesn’t make that choice because he knows ultimately there’s a sacrifice that has to be made if he’s going to be the person that May raised him to be. This is the responsibility that he now has to live with.”
These comments by the writers come in the wake of Tom Holland suggesting that his time as Spider-Man might be over. “Maybe it is time for me to move on,” the actor said at the time. “Maybe what’s best for Spider-Man is that they do a Miles Morales film.” Holland later clarified his comments, explaining, “I don’t know what the future of Spider-Man looks like. I don’t know whether I’m going to be a part of it. Spider-Man will always live on in me, and I know that [producer Amy Pascal] and the studio are keen to figure out what the next chapter of Spider-Man looks like.”
Spider-Man: No Way Home is out in theaters now.
