He slings webs, but also some heartfelt tears: at a recent fan event, Spider-Man star Tom Holland got a bit misty about his time in the role since being cast at age 18.
After showing off the new trailer to third solo film Spider-Man: No Way Home, the actor also claimed that the universe-colliding flick is “the most cinematic and theatrical superhero movie that has ever been made”. A big call, and Aussie super-fans will have to wait until No Way Home slings into cinemas on December 16 to see if it lives up.
As has been not-so-sneakily suggested by previous trailers and casting info, Spider-Man: No Way Home will certainly include former Spidey heroes and villains from the Sam Raimi and Sony franchises. Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange explains it in the latest trailer below via thuddingly obvious exposition.
“When you botched that spell where you wanted everyone to fuhget that Peyter Pahker’s Spider-Man”—yeah the American accent’s still a bit dodgy—”we started getting some visitors. From every universe.”
Alfred Molina’s digitally de-aged Doctor Octopus is the most prominently featured baddie in the new trailer, but we also get glimpses of the Green Goblin, Sandman, the Lizard, and Electro. Looks like they’re saving Tobey McGuire and Andrew Garfield for the film’s cinema release on ‘Spider Monday’.
In Australia, however, we can plan for a spidery Thursday instead, with Spider-Man: No Way Home getting moved to the middle of December rather than the originally scheduled, cinematically stacked Boxing Day lineup.
That means Spidey avoids battling against Spielberg’s West Side Story, the ultra-hyped The Matrix: Resurrections, kids’ flick Sing 2, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza. Man, that’s a cinematic-universe-busting melee we would’ve loved to see play out.
With a bit of Cumberbatch magic and alternative universe shenanigans on the horizon, we have no doubt that things can turn out for Peter Parker, even after being wrongly exposed as basically a terrorist in previous film Spider-Man: Far From Home. You’ll just have to wait until Boxing Day to find out the specific, IP-exploding details.
