A Day After Leaked Trailer Surfaces, Marvel Releases Official First Trailer for ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’
“Be careful what you wish for.”
Those words, spoken to Peter Parker (Tom Holland) by Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in our first official look at Spider-Man: No Way Home are perhaps delivered a little too late.
Sunday, the trailer leaked on social media, primarily TikTok. Account users shared what appeared to be unfinished, watermarked footage recorded off a another phone that from Sony and Marvel’s highly anticipated sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man Far From Home.
In the trailer released officially Monday, Peter is suffering the aftermath of being outed as the alter ego of Spider-Man, and accused of killing Mysterio in the last movie. As his personal (and his superhero) life suffer, he gets desperate enough to do something, well, drastic.
He goes to Doctor Strange’s snowy fortress of solitude to ask for a spell that will cause everyone to forget that he is Spider-Man. The sweatpants-clad Dr. Strange capriciously complies, casting a spell that seems to turn the world inside out and unleash the promised multiverse of madness.
“We tampered with the stability of space-time,” Doctor Strange tells Peter. “The multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.”
Dr. Strange throws Peter out of Spider-Man’s body, forcing him onto an astral plane. Whole cities sink into the ground. Spider-Man is wearing his Iron Spider suit, which in a way foreshadows the end, when Alfred Molina as Otto Octavius, aka Doctor Octopus, returns from 2004’s Spider-Man 2. That’s the one with Tobey Maguire, in case you lost track.
Molina’s involvement in this movie has been Marvel’s worst-kept secret for a while, but this is the first time we’ve seen his character in action. Jamie Foxx, who reportedly reprises his role as Electro from Andrew Garfield’s outing as Spider-Man. Maguire and Garfield, also rumored to be in the movie, were also absent from the trailer.
Holland and Cumberbatch will definitely be joined by Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Marisa Tomei, Angourie Rice, J.B. Smoove, Martin Starr, Hannibal Buress, Benedict Wong, and J.K. Simmons.
Marvel chief Kevin Feige has confirmed that the events in this movie will tie into Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, which will be released next year. No Way Home hits theaters Dec. 17.