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WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD
One of the clever things Marvel did with Spider-Man: Far From Home did with their marketing was portraying Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio as a hero. Fans knew better, but it was convincing for a moment there. After all, the MCU has portrayed Skrulls in a pretty positive light considering that fans will know them as villains in the comics. Speaking of Skrulls, apparently one of the early versions of Far From Home included another Skrull reveal besides the one we saw in the post-credits.
According to Collider, Mysterio himself was meant to be a Skrull. Screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers spoke about this early version:
“There were some early, early versions of this movie where Mysterio was a Skrull… There were a lot of Skrull versions of the story early on. When you’re doing a con artist movie, what we finally landed on—we sat down and talked about how do we keep on fooling the audience, how do we keep on having a lot of fun reveals? How many distractions can we get away with before people want to murder us? [The Mysterio skrull reveal] was an early idea about why he was doing everything he was doing.”
McKenna did add that this idea didn’t get very far into the production of the film:
“I don’t think it ever made it to paper, necessarily, but we talked about it for a while. But we talked about a lot of stuff. We spent a lot of time in a windowless room with [director] Jon [Watts], and the folks from Marvel and Pascal Pictures, just talking it through. That’s what it is, in those early stages. It’s just a lot of talk. Going down different roads and just gradually refining things until you have a story.”
Would you have liked a Skrull/Mysterio reveal?
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