Spider-Man: No Way Home

Spider-Man: No Way Home is a 2021 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and the 27th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Jon Watts, written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, alongside Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Benedict Wong, Tony Revolori, Marisa Tomei, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire.
A third MCU Spider-Man film was planned during the production of Homecoming in 2017. Negotiations between Sony and Marvel Studios to alter their deal—in which they produce the Spider-Man films together—ended with Marvel Studios leaving the project in August 2019, but a negative fan reaction led to a new deal between the companies a month later. Watts, McKenna, Sommers, and Holland were set to return, and filming took place from October 2020 to March 2021 in New York City and Atlanta. No Way Homefeatures several actors reprising their roles from non-MCU Spider-Man films directed by Sam Raimi and Marc Webb, including previous Spider-Man actors Maguire and Garfield. The involvement of both actors was the subject of wide speculation and numerous leaks despite the efforts of Sony, Marvel, and the cast to conceal their involvement.
Spider-Man: No Way Home premiered at the Fox Village Theatre in Los Angeles on December 13, 2021, and was released in the United States on December 17, 2021, as part of Phase Four of the MCU. The film was critically acclaimed by critics and is the best-reviewed live-action Spider-Man film to date. Praise earned for its action sequences, visuals, Watts's direction, emotional weight, humor, and the performances of Holland, Dafoe, and Garfield, with many critics even lauding its usage of fan service and nostalgia. The film was also universally praised by fans and audiences, which lead to the film becoming a huge box office success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2021, the highest-grossing Spider-Man film, the-sixth highest-grossing film of all time, and the highest-grossing film released by Sony Pictures, surpassing Far from Home. In the wake of its release, Spider-Man: No Way Home became a viral and meme subject, resulting in the creatives of shitpost, ytp, and genocide memes at social media from users. An extended cut of the film titled "The More Fun Stuff Version" is scheduled to be released in theaters in September 2022 globally, while a fourth film has been confirmed to be in development.
==Plot==
After Quentin Beck frames Peter Parker for murder and reveals his identity as Spider-Man, Parker, his girlfriend MJ, best friend Ned Leeds, and aunt May are interrogated by the Department of Damage Control. Lawyer Matt Murdock gets Parker's charges dropped, but the group grapples with negative publicity. After Parker, MJ, and Ned's MIT applications are rejected, Parker goes to the New York Sanctum to ask Stephen Strange for help. Strange suggests a spell that would make people forget Parker is Spider-Man, but it is corrupted when Parker repeatedly requests alterations to let his loved ones retain their memories. Strange contains the spell to stop it from working and kicks Parker out.
Parker tries to convince an MIT administrator to reconsider MJ and Ned's applications, but is attacked by Otto Octavius. Octavius rips Parker's nanotechnology from his Iron Spider suit which bonds with his mechanical tentacles and allows Parker to disable them. As Norman Osborn arrives and attacks, Strange teleports Parker back to the Sanctum and locks Octavius in a cell next to Curt Connors. Strange explains that before he was able to contain the corrupted spell, it summoned some people from other universes who know Spider-Man's identity. He orders Parker, MJ, and Ned to find and capture them; they are able to locate and retrieve Max Dillon and Flint Marko.
Osborn reclaims control of himself from his split Green Goblin personality. He goes to a F.E.A.S.T. building where May comforts him before Parker retrieves him. While discussing their battles with Spider-Man, Osborn, Octavius, and Dillon realize that they were pulled from their universes just before their deaths. Strange prepares to reverse the contained spell and send the villains back to their respective universes, but Parker argues that they should first cure the villains' powers and insanity to prevent their deaths upon their return. Parker steals the spell, traps Strange in the Mirror Dimension, and, with May, takes the villains to Happy Hogan's apartment. He cures Octavius, but Osborn's Goblin persona takes control and convinces the uncured villains to betray Parker. As Dillon, Marko, and Connors escape, Goblin fatally injures May before escaping himself. Before she dies, May tells Parker that "with great power, there must also come great responsibility".
Ned discovers that he can create portals using Strange's sling ring, which he and MJ use to try to locate Parker. They instead find alternate versions of Parker from the villains' universes who were also summoned by Strange's spell and who are nicknamed "Peter-Two" and "Peter-Three". The group finds this universe's Parker, nicknamed "Peter-One", who is ready to give up and send the villains home. The alternate Parkers share stories of losing loved ones and encourage Peter-One to fight in May's honor, and the three Parkers develop cures for the villains.
The group lure Dillon, Marko, and Connors to the Statue of Liberty. Peter-One and Peter-Two cure Marko and Connors while Octavius arrives to help cure Dillon, and Ned frees Strange from the Mirror Dimension with a portal. Goblin appears and unleashes the contained spell which begins pulling more people in from other universes. Strange attempts to hold them off while an enraged Peter-One tries to kill Goblin. Peter-Two stops him and Peter-Three helps Peter-One inject Goblin with his cure, restoring Osborn's sanity. Peter-One realizes that the only way to protect the multiverse is to erase himself from everyone's memory and requests that Strange do so, while promising MJ and Ned that he will find them again. The spell is cast and everyone returns to their respective universes—including Eddie Brock, who leaves behind a piece of the Venom symbiote. Two weeks later, Parker visits MJ and Ned to reintroduce himself, but decides against it. While mourning at May's grave, he has a conversation with Hogan and is inspired to carry on, making a new suit and resuming his vigilantism.
==Cast==
*Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man / Peter-One
*Zendaya as Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson
*Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange
*Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds
*Jon Favreau as Harold "Happy" Hogan
*Jamie Foxx as Max Dillon / Electro
*Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
*Alfred Molina as Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus
*Benedict Wong as Wong
*Tony Revolori as Eugene "Flash" Thompson
*Marisa Tomei as May Parker
*Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker / Spider-Man / Peter-Three
*Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker / Spider-Man / Peter-Two
*Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors / Lizard
*Thomas Haden Church as Flint Marko / Sandman
*Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock
*Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock / Venom
*Angourie Rice as Betty Brant
*Hannibal Buress as Coach Wilson
*Martin Starr as Roger Harrington
*J. B. Smoove as Julius Dell
*J. K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson
*Jake Gyllenhaal as Quentin Beck / Mysterio (archive footage)
*Paula Newsome as an MIT administrator
*Arian Moayed as Department of Damage Control Agent Cleary
*Mary Rivera as Ned's grandmother
*Cristo Fernández as a bartender
Holland's brother Harry and Lexi Rabe shot additional scenes as a drug dealer (carrying on from his cameo in Cherry) and Morgan Stark respectively, but they were cut from the theatrical release.
== Posters ==
File:Ezgif-5-3e5f133d52.jpg|First official poster, reflecting the Highway Fight with Spider-Man 2's Doctor Octopus 
File:SM No Way Home Main Poster.jpeg|Main poster for marketing and DVD/Blu-Ray cover
File:0010E506-0C93-4474-8B73-77CFE6BF0A09.jpg|Mirror Dimension Poster, reflecting the Mirror Dimension fight with Doctor Strange
File:Ezgif-5-683c489e18.jpg|January poster, reflecting the J. Jonah Jameson Message scene
==Videos==
===Trailers===
SPIDER-MAN- NO WAY HOME - Official Teaser Trailer (HD)
SPIDER-MAN- NO WAY HOME - Official Trailer (HD)
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