Spider-Man No Way Home Ending Explained: Marvel Director Gives a Huge Update on Tom Holland’s Future as Spider-Man
Tobey Maguire’s 2002 super hit Spider-Man was the first movie to bring Peter Parker to the wider world through a live-action stint on the big screen.
Ever since, Peter has managed to imprint a very distinctive persona, with millions of fans recognizing him as a poor, lonely, and weak teenager during the day and the super strong and super agile Spider-Man at night. For his friends and family in the movie, he consistently remained the same sickly guy.
However, that wasn’t the case almost two decades later in Spider-Man: No Way Home. The web-slinger is no longer living two lives. The whole premise of this movie revolves around the very same idea and poetically goes all nostalgic in the end.
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Marvel Director Explains Spider-Man: No Way Home Ending
In the threequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home, Tom Holland reprises his role of the much-loved webby superhero, who seemingly isn’t loving his new life that is bereft of any boundaries between Peter and Spider-Man. His identity is now revealed to his friends, loved ones, and the whole world.
He asks Doctor Strange for help, but a spell goes wrong, impacting the multiverse and bringing in villains that threaten to end the world. A multitude of villains naturally asked for multiple heroes, and the brilliant script of No Way Home caused chaos by bringing all three Spider-Mans together.
The idea of bringing in Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield alongside Holland raised the hype of Spider-Man to brand new levels, both in the movie’s world and ours. However, the ending is like a balloon rapidly losing all the air, as everyone, including MJ, forgets who Peter is, leading to multiple theories from fans concerning its meaning.
Reflecting on the same in the book The Spider-Man: No Way Home – The Art of the Movie, director Jon Watts said:
“When we were doing ‘Homecoming’, the discussions were always about how we do something that you haven’t seen before with Peter Parker… That steers you down a couple different paths and leads you to doing things like having his best friend find out his identity, and having his aunt find out, and then, at the end of the last movie, having the whole world find out. So that was a fun thing to play with these new aspects. But in the end, you know, it was nice to be able to have everything coalesce into, at its essence, the simple story of Spider-Man. We just really all took our time telling the first issue of ‘Spider-Man’ — that origin story.”
So there you have it. Watt confirms the movie ends basically where it all started at the beginning of the century: in the small apartment of a lonely and poor Peter Parker.
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What’s the Future of Tom Holland as Spider-Man
As No Way Home ended at the beginning, which Watts also confirms, it concluded Spider-Man’s origin story and left fans with question marks about Tom Holland’s future.
In the situation Parker was left in the end, there are arrays of ways the MCU plot can progress. Even his suit which he sewed himself at the end left a few clues for fans to analyze thanks to the nod to original comic Spider-Man colors. It also drew parallels with Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man and Peter in the comics. Whether the webhead in the next installment becomes more self-reliant and mature, as indicated by the act of sewing, remains to be seen.
Further, Spider-Man producer Amy Pascal says a fourth movie featuring Holland and Zendaya is being developed, but the progress has been on hold due to the ongoing writers’ strike.
Source: The Direct
