But the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home will not be predicated on every theatrical viewer having watched the Disney+ shows. Will Elizabeth Olsen and/or Tom Hiddleston show up and discuss the events of those Disney+ shows? Maybe. Spending so much time showing how Doctor Strange’s memory spell creates multiverse related chaos is an assurance that the events of WandaVision and Loki won’t be essential to the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home. For example, Civil War may be rooted in the fallout of Tony Stark ’s planet-endangering actions in Age of Ultron, but the events that spur the Avengers to fight each other (the explosions in Sokovia and Vienna) take place during the present-tense narrative of Captain America 3. Even if a given film picks up where a previous one left off, the core plot points of this new film occur in this new film. However, they are not essential viewing and the films contain exposition and flashbacks to get anyone up to speed on past-tense storytelling. It helps if you’ve seen the “mythology episodes,” which arguably include the Avengers quartet and the two Captain America sequels. MARVEL and all related character names: © & ™ 2021 MARVEL ![]() Heck, Iron Man 2 is not essential for Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World isn’t required viewing for Thor: Ragnarok.īenedict Cumberbatch stars as Doctor Strange and Tom Holland stars as Spider-Man/Peter Parker in Columbia Pictures' SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME. You don’t really have to have seen Avengers: Age of Ultron to enjoy Captain America: Civil War. ![]() You don’t have to see Civil War to enjoy Black Panther and you don’t have to have seen Ant-Man to enjoy Captain Marvel. You can walk into any MCU flick with little-to-no knowledge of what came before. This goes to the notion that, contrary to popular belief, Marvel movies and Marvel television shows don’t require you to have seen all of their respective installments to enjoy a given MCU show or film. ![]() Hell, since the trailer details the post-credit cliffhanger from Spider-Man: Far from Home (Mysterio implicated Spidey in his “murder” and outed Peter Parker’s alter-ego to the world), audiences don’t even have to have seen that flick to follow along. It’s a reassurance that you’ll be able to understand and enjoy this third Spider-Man movie even if you haven’t watched the Disney+ television shows. Why is 1/3 of the trailer made up of a single first-act expository/narrative beat? Well, because it affirms that the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home will be predicated on events that occur in Spider-Man: No Way Home. The middle 66 seconds of the trailer, between the Sony logo at 0:58 and the “This Christmas” text at 2:04, details Peter Parker asking Stephen Strange to make everyone forget he’s Spider-Man. Aside from a promise that the film will open this Christmas “only in theaters,” the entire trailer was structured as a reassurance of a different sort. While that’s subject to change ( Venom: Let There Be Carnage was supposed to open September 24 instead of October 15), the hope is that the Delta surge will have abated by Thanksgiving, leaving Ghostbusters: Afterlife (November 11) and Spider-Man 3 (December 17) sitting pretty.
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