- Why Spider-Man Far From Home deleted that scene.
It's been over two months since the last Marvel movie
hit theaters, two long, excruciating months since
we got our socks rocked by Avengers: Endgame
and this week, thank goodness, that drought finally
came to an end when Spider-Man Far From Home
swung onto the big screen and ultimately into our hearts.
However, while Far From Home is a delightful romp
that caps off phase three and helps set up the next chapter
of the Marvel cinematic universe, apparently there
is a bit of footage in the trailers that never made it into
the movie including, one key scene.
Wait!
Are you saying that trailers lie to us?
When has that ever happened?
(warning buzzer sounds)
So what shots didn't make it into the theaters
and why did Spider-Man Far From Home delete that scene?
First off, light spoiler warning, for Far From Home.
- You don't want any part of this.
- And secondly, let's get into it.
So the key scene in question is peppered throughout
a lot of the trailers.
In it we see Spider-Man in his iron spider armor
as he takes on bad guys or crooks of some sort
brandishing machine guns in a restaurant.
After a lot of gunfire around fish tanks,
we see our friendly neighborhood web head
whip up a couple of the bad guys before he yucks it up
with a few of New York's finest.
- You gonna be the next Iron Man now?
- [Spiderman] Well, no I don't have time,
I'm too busy doing your jobs.
- [Group] Oh!
- He then bolts on outta there.
- [Spiderman] Keep up the good work,
because I am going on vacation.
- Where in other footage we see him prepping for his
European getaway as he hits his favorite bodega
form Homecoming for supplies.
- Planning a trip?
- Mmmhmm, going to Europe.
It's a school trip.
- And then later we get this alliterative jump that would
have made Stan Lee proud.
- Peter Parker here to pick up a passport please.
- All in all, it's a pretty dense amount of footage
that sadly seemed to stay on the cutting room floor.
So, why?
Well, luckily the folks over at comicbookmovie.com
had chance to sit down with the Far From Home
director John Watts who had this to say about
the missing footage.
"It was one of those things where it was a really fun scene
"but it didn't really move the story forward
"and we basically just wanted to get the kids
"to Europe as quickly as possible."
However, he doesn't mean this footage will never see
the light of day, in fact all of it will live on
in the Blu-ray release and it appears not just
as deleted scenes but instead as a short film,
similar to the one shots
that Marvel used to do back in the day.
John Watts spoke a little more about where these scenes
would eventually end up:
"Yes, both of those are actually a part of the same montage
"which is Peter's To-Do List.
"It's all the things he has to do before he goes on the trip
"which are going to Delmar's to get a dual headphone adapter
"and one of those European travel plugs."
Which those are very important by the way,
because when I was in Amsterdam I almost set my hair on fire
when I plugged in my hair dryer.
Just saying.
"He has to go to a pawn shop to sell his Star Wars toys
"to get money for the trip, he has to pick up his passport,
"and he has to take down this gian crime syndicate.
"That's just the to-do list for someone like him,
"but that will be its little short film that we're going
"to put on the Blu-ray.
"There are some good deleted scenes."
Anytime Marvel or whoever can repurpose that old footage
into extended cuts or just short movies that live alongside
the main film, we are all for that.
Of course, that wasn't the only change that was spotted
within the trailer, eagle eye viewers might notice
that Spider-Man goes through a bit of a costume change
in one scene.
While at Aunt May's fundraiser for people displaced
by the blip, we see Spider-Man in either his traditional
red and blues or his iron spider armor,
depending on the trailer.
While the finished product had Peter wearing
the iron spider suit, the question remains,
why switch it up?
Was it spoilers for Endgame?
Was it going to take too long to render
out the special effects?
Who knows?
I don't work there.
Of course, there were a few other pieces of footage
that were changed.
- Sup dick wad.
(ding)
Sup loser.
(ding)
- Well, we imagine that is just because
of the international audience.
(laughs nervously)
Well, what do you folks think?
Are you cool with the lost footage being repurposed
into a short film,
would you have rather seen it in the movie,
and which of the post credit scenes
shocked you the most, let's discuss.
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