Bringing back Tom Holland as the titular webslinger, the film also features the last two live-action Spidey actors, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.
The story explored the concept of the multiverse, and addressed the fallout of Spider-Man’s real identity getting exposed to the world by JK Simmons’ J Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man: Far From Home, the last film in the franchise.
Supervillains from previous Spidey film franchises, like Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock and Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin, crossed over to the MCU to face the three Spider-Men.
This is clearly good news for Sony, one of the studios behind it (the other being Marvel Studios), which enjoys majority of the profits from Spidey movies (75 per cent as per reports).
However, the company had issues with the way Holland was promoting the movie. While speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Holland explained that he got in trouble for using words like “emotional” and “brutal” while on the press tour.
I got a phone call from some people at the studio, saying, ‘Stop saying the movie is brutal! Stop saying the movie is emotional! It doesn’t sell the movie!’ And I was like, ‘But it is! This is the most emotional superhero movie that’s ever been made.’ And they were like, ‘We want people to understand how fun it is.’ And I was like, ‘It is fun, but it’s also kind of heartbreaking.’ So I had to sort of change track on how I was promoting the movie, but I’m glad I gave at least some people some warning.”
In an answer to a question about Andrew Garfield, Holland said he is proud of the response Garfield is receiving, which is in stark contrast to the mixed response Garfield’s solo Spidey–The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2–received.
