With the character of Peter Parker in his last year of high school and the eyes of the world on him, it was clear thatĀ Spider-Man: No Way HomeĀ (now playing in Philippine cinemas) would be the final chapter in Peter Parkerās coming of age story.
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āThis film is about him becoming the Spider-Man,ā says Tom Holland, who reprises his role as Peter Parker. āItās about him growing up, stepping up to the plate, and making his own decisions as a full-blown Avenger.ā
No Way Home is indeed the culmination of the Homecoming trilogyā¦ and the start of a multiverse of possibilities. In the first film, Homecoming, Peter gains a mentor in Tony Stark. Peter desperately wants to join the Avengers, but Tony Stark advises him to focus on being a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. In the second film, Far From Home, having lost his mentor and taken that to heart, he discovers that being Spider-Man means when duty comes calling, he must answer. At the end of that film, Peter is ready to be his own man and the hero that everyone wants him to be ā when suddenly, his identity is revealed and he is framed for the crime of murdering Quentin Beck (a/k/a Mysterio).
With Mysterio having revealed Spider-Manās secret identity, and a less-hirsute J. Jonah Jameson having broadcast that identity to the world, Peter finds himself at the center of extreme controversy. āHis world is turned upside down,ā says Chris McKenna, one of the movieās credited writers. āHe had his āI am Iron Manā moment, but he didnāt get to make it. It was forced on him from the grave by Beck. Heās hounded by J. Jonah Jameson and framed as a murderer. So at a moment when everything should be going great ā heās about to be a senior in high school, he has a girlfriend, heās found a harmony between being Spider-Man and being Peter Parker ā the whole thing is upended.ā
āSpider-Manās biggest superpower is Peter Parker, and thatās because of his humility,ā says Holland. āWhen that is at stake, his friends are at stake, his aunt is at stake, their lives have been ruined because of him, he knows he has to do something. What I love ā and this is a constant reminder of how young Peter is ā is the naivete of him going to Doctor Strange and saying, āCan you just make everyone forget who I am, is that something you can do?ā And thatās something only a kid would do.ā
āIf you think about what Peterās been through, Strange is closely tied to a very substantial moment in his life,ā says director Jon Watts. āIn Endgame, Strangeās plan to stop Thanos leads to Peter losing Tony, his mentor, right in front of his eyes. I imagine Strange would feel some responsibility for that, so itās understandable that if Peter came to Strange and asked for his help, Strange would oblige, even if it meant bending the rules a bit.ā
Thatās true even though Strange and Peter havenāt been super close in the past, according to Benedict Cumberbatch. āThis chapter of their story brings them far closer to knowing and understanding each other,ā he says ābecause despite the intensity of their experience together so far, they donāt actually know each other very well. Until this point, Strange has just seen a kid with extraordinary powers caught up in a problem far larger than either one of them.ā
Strangeās spell opens the multiverse so that anyone in any universe who knew Peter Parker was Spider-Man could come into his world. It turns out, thatās a lot of peopleā¦ Since the first Spider-Man movie in 2002, there have been a rogueās gallery of villains that have discovered who is behind the Spidey mask: the Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Sandman, Lizard, Electro ā all have threatened other Peter Parkers from time to time. When Strangeās spell collapses the boundaries between these universes, all of them are brought together to face this Peter Parker.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is distributed in the Philippines by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony Pictures Releasing International. Connect with #SpiderManNoWayHome