According to Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts, the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film will be the Avengers: Endgame equivalent for Tom Holland's version of the wall-crawler.
Empire is set to release its upcoming issue on Oct. 28, which will dive into the film and according to the magazine, be "packed with world-exclusive images." The publication recently unveiled two covers for the issue, one featuring the back of a new suit and a fractured reality of villains, and another cartoon cover seemingly confirming the involvement of Sandman and possibly Mysterio. The new Empire story showed two new images of the movie and included interviews with those involved in the production, who hyped up the scope and scale of the film.
"We're definitely trying to be ambitious," said Watts, who called the film "Spider-Man: Endgame." Marvel fans will recognize the spun-title as a play on Avengers: Endgame, which released in 2019 as the 22nd film and the culmination of everything in the MCU up until that point. Featuring a colossal battle between all of Earth's Mightiest Heroes and the forces of the mad titan Thanos, it was arguably the biggest project Marvel has made, even grossing over $2.7 billion and taking the title for the highest-grossing movie of all time, until Avatar reclaimed the title.
However, star Tom Holland told the magazine that the upcoming film will be "crazy," and that he never envisioned its story ever being able to be told. "When I first pitched the idea, I was like, 'Wow, that would be awesome if we could pull it off'," said Holland. "'But there's no way it's going to work. You're just not going to be able to get everyone to do what they need to do when they need to do it. It's just not going to happen.' But it did happen."
The film will feature the return of many Spider-Man villains of old, the first trailer thrusting Alfred Molina's Dr. Otto Octavius AKA Doc Ock into the spotlight as the first to be officially seen returning. Molina will be reprising his role from Spider-Man 2, where Tobey Maguire played the titular web-head. In the Empire story, Marvel Studios President and Chief Creative Officer Kevin Feige described that Molina was the "perfect casting" for Doc Ock, and if the studio ever did bring the character back, "it would have to be him somehow."
Directed by Watts and starring Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch and more, Spider-Man: No Way Home swings into theaters Dec. 17.
Source: Empire
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