Hello dear Joker blog visitors and followers, today we will learn about Spider-Man: No Way Home try to hide the lineup of villains. A leak turns Marvel-ous strategy on its head.
Originally, the general public wasn't supposed to know about Alfred Molina's epic return as Doc Ock until "Spider-Man: No Way Home" hit cinemas.
Then people spotted the actor at a hotel in Atlanta - where the latest episode of Spider-Man was filmed - and game over.
"We ended up putting his picture on the poster - that wasn't the plan," Sony Pictures CEO Tom Rothman said, referring to the giant character poster of Molina as the tentacled villain at the movie's world premiere. (Hello Peter's threatening song Molina wasn't supposed to appear in the trailer either. But here we are.)
We tried to tell him to wear the hood from the hotel. I mean, they were closed groups, but that was impossible. People… just put two and two together.
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Once the octopus came out of the bag, other major castings were revealed. Next came Willem Dafoe, who starred opposite Molina in Sam Raimi's original "Spider-Man" trilogy as Green Joplin. By then, it was already confirmed that Jamie Foxx would reappear as Electro - Spidey's nemesis from Mark Webb's Amazing Spider-Man 2 - and soon Rhys Ifans' Lizard from "The Amazing Spider-Man" and Thomas Haden Church's Sandman from "Spider-Man 3" was thrown into this sinister mix.
Ahead of Monday's premiere in Westwood, "Spider-Man: No Way Home" producer Amy Pascal said the studio initially wanted to keep all returning enemies a secret. But she eventually decided to publicly announce a nostalgia return , just one of many ways that "No Way Home" pays homage to the earlier Spider-Man saga.
Directed by John Watts, the third entry in the Tom Holland trilogy sees the lives of Peter, his girlfriend MJ (Zendaya) and best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) in disarray after the revelations of Spider-Man and a full-blown multiverse. Familiar faces from alternate timelines - accidentally launched.
This is where the longtime spoiled looks of Molina, Dafoe, and company come into play.
“Whatever lengths we went to [contain spoilers], we failed,” Rothman said.
But certainly not for lack of trying: Dafoe remembered the intense "cloak and dagger" routine he was required to follow and "didn't mind doing" while filming the Spidey sequel. (The veteran actor first faced off against director Tobey Maguire's web slingshot in 2002's Spider-Man.)
"The second time you got out of the car in the studio, they were throwing you a black cloak," Dafoe said on the red carpet. “Anytime you were wearing a costume, it was covered up when we moved from the sound stage to the sound stage. It was very dangerous. They were very careful about coming and going.
Spider-Man No Way Home Release Date
Spider-Man: No Way Home is an upcoming American superhero film produced by Marvel Studios and Columbia Pictures and directed by John Watts. The film stars Tom Holland, Zendaya, Angelo Brooks, Jacob Batalone, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Foxx, Benedict Cumberbatch and Alfred Molina. The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on December 17/2021.
