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Amy Pascal and Kevin Feige sat down with NYT to do some dissection on Spider-Man: No Way Home, as well as addressing what’s next for Spider-Man movies. According to Pascal, the ending of Spider-Man: No Way Home was purposefully constructed to open a wide door into the future of the franchise:
“You see Spider-Man make a momentous decision, one that you’ve never seen him make before,” Pascal explained. “It’s a sacrifice. And that gives us a lot to work within the next film.”
WARNING – Spider-Man: No Way Home MAJOR SPOILERS Follow!
The ending of Spider-Man: No Way Home borrows from one of Marvel Comics’ most infamous storylines, “One More Day”. In this Marvel Cinematic Universe adaptation, Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland) has Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) erase all memory of him (Peter Parker) from the minds of any and everyone who knows him. Peter is essentially given a blank slate life since all his relatives are dead (RIP Hot Aunt May…) and his friends and superhero colleagues have all forgotten the boy behind Spider-Man’s mask.
For Spider-Man fans, No Way Home essentially gave them the long-awaited wish to see Spider-Man movies return their focus to the namesake of the franchise – instead of all the other MCU characters (or Marvel movie characters in general) that ended up crowding the Spider-Man ‘Home’ Trilogy. Now, Marvel and Sony also have achieved the feat of essentially pulling off an in-universe soft-reboot of the Spider-Man franchise.
As Pascal says, they can now literally take Peter Parker/Spider-Man in any kind of direction they want: from the grounded solo character story that’s now clearly in front of us – to the possible mystic/cosmic implications of what Peter has done to the world – to the full-fledged new Venom origin and eventual symbiote event that No Way Home‘s post-credits scene set up.
What would YOU like to see?
Spider-Man: No Way Home is now in theaters.
