Anna Daniels
To those who have kept a finger firmly on the pulse of all things Spidey-related, hearing that the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse team planned on having Maguire, Garfield, and Holland cameo in the flick will sound familiar. Holland actually confirmed he was meant to lend his voice to the movie while speaking with JOE.co.uk in a June 2019 sit-down interview. The actor shared that he knew about the plans for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and was devastated when they didn’t pan out: “At one point, I was supposed to be in it. Yeah, there was going to be another Peter Parker. It was a scene in a train station or something, and it was going to be like an Easter egg. I was gonna walk through the background and say like, ‘Hey, kid!’ or something. Never happened. Heartbroken.”
The fresh bit of Miller’s recent comments is the mention that Sony executives believed it was “too soon” for a triple-Spidey cameo. It seems that concern was likely partially due to the fact that Holland’s iteration of Spider-Man had, at the time, died just a handful of months before Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was released. His Peter Parker perished at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, which debuted in April 2018, eight months prior to Into the Spider-Verse opening in theaters in December 2018.
According to the film’s co-director Rodney Rotham, another reason the cameos didn’t happen is because there was worry about the potential negative consequences that would arise from including too many Spider-Men in the film, especially ones that audiences would have already been super familiar with — i.e., Maguire, Garfield, and Holland’s versions of the character. As Rothman stated on an episode of The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith in January 2019, “I don’t want to get into it, but I did write that [scene with all three live-action Spider-Man actors]. But there was a lot of anxiety, there was a lot of anxiety around the movie generally and there was anxiety about confusing people.”
Written by: Looper
