Spider-Man faces down an assortment of variant villains in a series of new posters for upcoming Marvel sequel, Spider-Man: No way Home. A trio of posters give us a close-up look at the likes of Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus, Jamie Foxx’s Electro, and Willem Defoe’s Green Goblin, all of whom will enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe thanks to a botched spell conjured by The Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange, and cause all manner of chaos for poor Peter Parker.
Each bad guy stares down Spidey while wielding their respective weapon, Doc Ock his tentacles, Green Goblin his pumpkin bomb, and Electro his electricity, with the posters conveying once again the sheer level of threat that Tom Holland’s Peter Parker will be asked to face in No Way Home as the madness of the multiverse begins to the take hold of the MCU.
These shenanigans occur as a result of Peter Parker’s identity being outed by Mysterio during the finale of 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, with Spider-Man: No Way Home picking up immediately after. With Peter’s life and reputation having now been turned upside down, Parker decides to ask his friend and colleague Doctor Strange to help restore his secret identity with magic. Unfortunately for both Parker and The Sorcerer Supreme, the spell goes horribly awry, thanks seemingly to Peter’s inability to keep his mouth shut, and breaks open the madness of the multiverse, allowing supervillains from alternate realities who have previously fought a variant of Spider-Man to arrive in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
These returning villains not only include the likes of Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus and Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man franchise, as well as Jamie Foxx as Electro from director Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2, but also Thomas Haden Church as The Sandman and Rhys Ifans as The Lizard, with the recent trailers revealing that each of these supervillains has since died in their respective universes. It is this element that will drive a wedge between Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, with the latter wanting to send them back to meet their doom, while the former is hoping he can save them.
Much attention will seemingly be paid to each of these prior villains, with a recent report claiming that the production team behind Spider-Man: No Way Home “consulted past Spider-Man directors Sam Raimi and Marc Webb about completing the backstories of their characters for this MCU film.” Their input was reportedly used to fill in certain gaps regarding several of the comeback characters, with the filmmakers being “consulted in telling how both Spider-Man 3 's Sandman and The Amazing Spider-Man 's Lizard died off-screen in the time following their respective films.”
Directed by Jon Watts and written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, Spider-Man: No Way Home will be the 27th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker AKA Spider-Man alongside Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Marisa Tomei, J. B. Smoove, and Benedict Wong. Spider-Man: No Way Home is scheduled to be released in the United States on December 17, 2021, as part of Phase Four of the MCU.
