Smoove, Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau, Benedict Wong, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Alfred Molina. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.ĭirected by Jon Watts from a script written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, Marvel’s latest stars Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Tony Revolori, Martin Starr, J.B. Here is the synopsis for Spider-Man: No Way Home:įor the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero is umasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a Super Hero. ‘Avatar’ Director James Cameron Hopes Marvel Keeps Making Billions of Dollars I think it would have been a fun film to make.” I wanted to ground it in reality and ground it in universal human experience. He turns into this kid with these powers and he has this fantasy of being Spider-Man, and he makes this suit and it’s terrible, and then he has to improve the suit, and his big problem is the damn suit. Or Superman and the Daily Planet and all that sort of thing, where it always felt very kind of metaphorical and fairytale-like. So you’re in a real world, you’re not in some mythical Gotham City. Superheroes in general always came off as kind of fanciful to me, and I wanted to do something that would have been more in the vein of Terminator and Aliens, that you buy into the reality right away. “I wanted to make something that had a kind of gritty reality to it. In the new book, Tech Noir: The Art of James Cameron, the filmmaker revisited his ideas for Spider-Man: Some of Cameron’s ideas carried over into the Sam Raimi film, but it was still going to be a different take on the beloved Marvel hero compared to what we eventually got.
Avatar director James Cameron recently provided more details on his scrapped Spider-Man film from the ’90s.īefore Sam Raimi brought Spider-Man to life in 2002, James Cameron was trying to get a film about the wall-crawler off the ground.