Spider-Man: No Way Home’s Initial Story Wasn’t About The Multiverse

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The 27th MCU movie Spider-Man: No Way Home is still conquering the box office around the globe. Since its premiere last month, the movie grossed more than $600 million domestically and $1.368 billion in total. But now that movie is out, the number of questions isn’t any less than it was before the premiere.

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The movie was the ultimate gift to all Spider-Man fans. Tom Holland reprised the role of MCU’s web-slinger, and thanks to the concept of the Multiverse that was introduced in the MCU, the fans were also able to enjoy the return of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, who played Spider-Man in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy and Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man duology, respectively. Now that both of these actors played the role again, many fans started demanding the sequels of their own franchises — Spider-Man 4 with Maguire and particularly The Amazing Spider-Man 3 with Garfield.

The concept of the Multiverse paid off for MCU and Spider-Man fans big time. But, co-writer Chris McKenna now revealed that the idea of the Multiverse wasn’t planned from the very beginning.

“We had gone down a couple different roads with different story ideas that were not [the multiverse] that would then tease something like this at the end of it. Why tease the multiverse when you can just do it?” — Chris McKenna for Variety

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In the post-credit scene of 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, Mysterio revealed Peter Parker’s identity to the world, which turned Peter’s life upside down even more than usual, and with his friends and family caught in the crossfire, Peter asks Doctor Strange for help, which opened the doors of the Multiverse.

Directed by Jon Watts, Spider-Man: No Way Home now plays in theaters. The movie has also set up the stage for Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the next MCU movie which will premiere in theaters next May.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.