Spider-Man: No Way Home All the Biggest Rumors, Leaks & Fan Theories Explained!

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a crowded space full of fan-favorite superheroes and larger-than-life supervillains, but none may be as iconic as your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Beginning in the early 2000s, the web-slinger has been portrayed on screen by three different actors across seven live-action movies and voiced by seven different actors in Into the Spider-Verse. The upcoming Spider-Man movie No Way Home is one of the most anticipated installments and the subject of today's video as we will take a look at Spider-Man No Way Home and all the rumors surrounding it and its upcoming release. Spidey's Background Now for those living on the moon the last 50 years, Spidey made his comic book debut at the tail end of a cancelled comic in 1962. Amazing Fantasy 15 to be exact. The story almost did not make it to print, given that publisher Martin Goodman was against the entire Spider-Man concept. However, Stan Lee managed to convince his publisher to run the story in the last issue of Amazing Fantasy. And as history would have it, the character went on to become an amazing success. While the friendly neighborhood wall crawler has seen his fair share of alternate costumes, he generally sports red and blue spandex with a spider logo on the chest. That being said, the hero has had many different looks throughout his historic and ongoing comic book run, but few veer too far from Ditko's original design. In the comics, Peter Parker is an American teenager who is a poor and sickly orphan being bitten by a radioactive spider. As a result of the bite, he gains superhuman strength, speed, and agility along with the ability to cling to walls. As a nerdy science whiz, Peter also develops his wrist-mounted web-shooters and gains the ability to essentially fly around town, swinging from skyscrapers. However, despite these incredible powers, Parker struggles with everyday life, finding a date for prom, constant bullying from the likes of Flash Thompson, being belittled by his boss J. Jonah Jameson, and helping his aunt make ends meet. Spider-Man's first appearance on screen was through the ABC animated TV series Spider-Man. In this show, Spider-Man was voiced by Paul Soles. Though it only aired new episodes from 1967 to 1970, it is perhaps most clearly remembered for its creation of the Spider-Man theme song that we all know today. Premiering nearly five years after the release of the first Spider-Man comics, the series stayed mostly true to the original story. There were also poorly conceived and executed made-for-TV live-action films featuring Spider-Man throughout the 70s, but none worth mentioning here as they were all really pretty bad. NBC put out an animated series in 1981 that ran through 1986 titled Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and like the first animated series, it closely stuck to the source material. Fox Network also took a stab at an animated Spider-Man series in 1994, titled Spider-Man The Animated Series, which ran for five seasons and focused more on the day-to-day life of Peter Parker and his struggles with balancing being a superhero and a teenager. After Sony bought the rights to Spider-Man in 1999, he would make his silver screen debut in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man in In 2002, being portrayed by Tobey Maguire, the The film was a huge success and would spawn two more sequels before Maguire and Raimi would hang up the Spider-Man suit for good. After that, Sony rebooted Spider-Man, this time helmed by Mark Webb, and starring Andrew Garfield in this iteration of Spidey. And it would last for two films, with neither being well received as the Tobey Maguire-Sam Raimi vehicle. Spider-Man: Homecoming and Far From Home. Spider-Man was rebooted for the big screen once again in 2016 after Sony, Disney and Marvel all made a deal to share the character. This time the wall crawler would be played by Tom Holland, and would be seen first as a side character in Captain America Civil War, which set up the first film in a new Spider-Man series titled Homecoming, and as we all know it was a smash hit. Holland would follow Homecoming up with 2019's Far From Home, and again, the film would be well received by critics and fans clearing the way for the reason we are all here today, which is the third installment in this most recent version of Spider-Man titled No Way Home. Spider-Man: No Way Home speculation. There have been so many Spider-Man No Way Home rumors floating around that it's been hard to keep up with them. Photos, leaked ads, reported videos, and synopses, real and fake, have spawned countless fan theories about who is and isn't in the third installment. While rumors and theories have been running rampant, Marvel Studios has done what it always does, keep things under lock and key. Everything a secret, but as the December release date approaches, more and more information is being leaked. If the internet rumors are to be believed, Spider-Man: No Way Home won't be so much the third film in Tom Holland's Marvel Cinematic Universe take on the masked wall crawler as a veritable smorgasbord of arachnid-shaped delights from every movie that has hit the box office since Sam Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002. Spider-Man. Now one of the most talked about aspects of the upcoming film is the appearance of every big screen version of Spider-Man, portrayed by the original actors, those being Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. The film will not just feature the other versions of Spider-Man, but supposedly at least seven of the villains from those two movies, including Doctor Octopus and Green Goblin, and also portrayed by the original actors to helm those roles. Now while none of this can be confirmed as of yet, it could be true, as No Way Home is also rumored to be introducing the multiverse aspect into this film, which would clear the way for the characters from other films to be included, as those films can be explained as occurring in other universes. The problem with the multiverse aspect of this is of course, where does it end? If Marvel wants to explore the multiverse, why not reach back even further into the past and bring back Ben Affleck as the blind lawyer come superhero. Or maybe Spider-Ham, the pig-nosed Looney Tunes-style animated wall-crawler from Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse. Maybe Ed Norton could reprise his role as the Hulk. Or how about Wesley Snipes as Blade? Who knows how far this multiverse thing goes, given that we've just witnessed a Loki variant who is female on Disney+, and J.K. Simmons has already turned up as a different version of J. Jonah Jameson, the character that he also played in the Sam Raimi Sony movies, so he too could end up in Spider-Man Far From Home. No one really knows which direction Marvel is taking with the multiverse, but the possibilities are endless, and they are fun to speculate on. A different Spider-Man story. Some rumors about No Way Home are more likely to be real, or already almost confirmed. And one of these is the story that this Spider-Man installment will tell us we will see Peter Parker making the transition into manhood, and supposedly this film will have a much darker tone. One version of the plotline sees Peter Parker finishing his his high school years. just as he's going through the most challenging time as a teenage superhero could imagine. After losing Iron Man, portrayed by Robert Downey Jr, Peter had to deal with the unexpected unmasking at the end of Far From Home. The world knows who Spider-Man is, and not everyone's a fan. This is another reason why No Way Home is so exciting, even if the rumors of Maguire and Garfield are false. Sony never told this Spider-Man story before, and things are about to get worse. Aunt May, portrayed by Marisa Tomei, will supposedly die sometime during the movie. This will motivate the three Spider-Men to defeat the villains. By the end of the film, Doctor Strange, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, will cast a spell and everyone will forget who Peter Parker is. And that does include Peter's closest friends. It is a bittersweet ending for the hero just as he's heading off to college. This is one version of what the main story will be, but there is another, even darker version that we may be in store for. This version will focus on Peter's university year, and it'll be darker than the first one. It's in this trilogy that we'll supposedly see Parker don the Venom-laden black suit. After all, Venom 2 already set up the inevitable Spider-Man vs. Venom fight by transporting Hardy's anti-hero into the MCU. Now we come to the latest leak of information relating to the main plotline of No Way Home, and this one comes to us from the shady realm of 4chan, so I mean, it must be taken with a grain of salt. The person who provided these new No Way Home details did not specify where the information comes from. They said that No Way Home will not feature the Sinister Six. Instead, we're only getting five nostalgia villains. The other two Spider-Man versions are in the movie, the person said, and Charlie Cox will play Matt Murdock. The leaker said that Venom is in the post-credits scene, claiming that the symbiote is staying in the MCU. More interestingly, the leaker said that Venom 3 is an MCU co-production, and that does make sense if Venom and Spider-Man are going to meet in Spider-Man 4 and beyond. And at the end of the day, we will have to wait until December 17th to find out what is new with our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.