That Reality-Bending Spider-Man: Far From Home Cameo, Explained
Of course, that was all before Avengers: Endgame brought the concept of the multiverse to the MCU. W..
Of course, that was all before Avengers: Endgame brought the concept of the multiverse to the MCU. When Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) first introduces Peter Parker to Quentin Beck in Far From Home he says: “Beck is from Earth, just not ours. The Snap tore a hole in our dimension.” That turns out to be a lie, but Peters astonished reaction—“theres a multiverse!?”— should be taken a bit more seriously.
The concept of the multiverse will already be familiar to anyone who saw 2018s animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse where multiple Peter Parkers, Mary Janes, and Aunt Mays mixed and mingled across different dimensions. At least one early draft of that film included a scene where all three of the live action Spider-Men—Holland, Maguire, and Andrew Garfield—had a cameo. In other words, in this brave new Spider world, Sony no longer needs to pretend that previous iterations of Spider-Man didnt exist. Everything is much more fluid and loose and J.K. Simmons can be a J. Jonah Jameson that harasses both Maguires Peter Parker and Hollands.
The multiverse is an old concept in comic books but was once considered a bit too challenging for fans of just the movies. But after more than a decade spent gorging on superhero narratives, filmgoers are much more inclined to accept bizarrely blurred logic lines along with their caped crusaders. Several studios seem to be embracing the multiverse concept all at once which explains why Warner Bros. can have both Jared Leto and Joaquin Phoenix play the Joker at the same time across different films.
But Sony, in particular, stands to benefit from the multiverse concept. Sonys main Spider-Man franchise is, by way of a licensing agreement, a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The rest of the studios new, financially lucrative Spider-Man movies, like Venom and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, are not. Into the Spider-Verse opened up a galaxy of possibilities—and unshackled Sony from continuity concerns. Sonys licensing deal with Marvel includes rights to roughly 900 characters—and back in December, producer Amy Pascal sounded downright giddy when she spoke with Vanity Fair about the potential for “all kinds of stories and worlds that can happen simultaneously.”
This lack of concern with continuity is big for the Marvel Studios as well especially as Disney prepares to launch a streaming platform which will see MCU charaRead More – Source
