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Spider-Man: No Way Home writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers reveal how Disney and Sony’s brief 2019 rift helped with the movie’s story.
Spider-Man: No Way Home writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers have revealed how the brief spit between Disney and Sony in 2019 regarding Spider-Man being in the Marvel Cinematic Universe helped them with the movie’s story.
While speaking to Variety, McKenna and Sommers, who were also among the writers for Spider-Man: Homecoming and co-wrote Spider-Man: Far From Home, discussed how said rift affected their creative thought process for No Way Home. “We were taking meetings about it, and going, ‘Well, what would this movie be if it wasn’t in the MCU?'” McKenna began.
“It was like any time you have a limitation thrown on you,” Sommers concluded. “Then it creates possibilities and spurs all sorts of creative discussions. Fortunately, [Disney and Sony] came to their agreement before we were too far down any road, and we were able to jump right in with the old team.”
Aside from the multiverse element of No Way Home, one of McKenna and Sommers’ ideas for the film involved Kraven the Hunter, who is not only slated to get his own movie in the future starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, but was originally intended to be Far From Home‘s main villain rather than Mysterio.
McKenna and Sommers were not the only ones who came up with ideas during Sony and Disney’s schism. No Way Home leading man and MCU Spider-Man actor Tom Holland recently revealed he made a pitch for a Spider-Man/Venom crossover during that time.
“On the day that the announcement happened that I would no longer be in the MCU, I just drove over to [Spider-Man producer and former Sony exec] Amy Pascal’s house and sat with her by her pool, and we sat there for hours, just chatting, and pitching ideas for movies,” Holland said. “How would we do a film without Marvel? Does Peter Parker fall through a portal, and then he’s in the Venom world? Or do we do a Kraven The Hunter film? It was a nice distraction.”
As for the multiverse itself, Marvel Studios President/Marvel Chief Creative Officer Kevin Feige and the aforementioned Amy Pascal discussed why classic Spider-Man movie villains were coming back in No Way Home. “We knew we were forcing ourselves to deal with [Spider-Man’s] identity being revealed,” Feige commented. “Now we see how his senior year is thrown into utter chaos.”
“The Multiverse was a good way for us to explore the problem of him becoming known to everyone,” Pascal said. “Peter opens Pandora’s box. And that’s what the Multiverse is.”
Spider-Man: No Way Home hits theaters on Dec. 17.
Source: Variety
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