Jon Watts Reveals Aunt May’s Fate and Breaks Down New Spider-Man: Far From Home Trailer

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”21505″ img_size=”900×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]With the first official trailer release of Spider-Man: Far from Home, we are shown a Spider-Man trying to cope with the loss of his mentor and friend Tony Stark. Who better to help explain things than the Director of Far from Home, Jon Watts. Watts was interviewed by Fandango and asked specifically about some of the events in the trailer. Here were some of the highlights of that interview. I have paraphrased but the general questions included are the same. You can read Fandango’s entire interview here.

Before we get started Watts confirmed that Ned, MJ, and Flash were all part of the snap and returned 5 years later when the SNAP was undone. Watts also said Aunt May was part of the SNAP despite the Russo brothers saying she was not.

First off, Watts was asked if there was a sense of relief releasing the trailer now that End Game has been tearing up the box office and there is no more need to keep things secret.

Watts: Oh my gosh. Oh man. Endgame being out, everyone knowing what happened… and now this trailer is such a relief, such a burden off of my shoulders to carry new secrets around with me.

As far as the timeline for the film went, was it right after the events in End Game?

Watts: We don’t say specifically how far after, but the idea is that it’s almost immediately after the events of Endgame. So we get to see the neighborhood from the first movie dealing with the implications of all of the crazy fallout of Endgame. And, you know, in classic New York style, everyone is just moving on and getting on with their daily lives. Ya know, half the people that disappeared are now back, so let’s move on. [laughs]

Its apparent from the trailer that we are dealing with alternate timelines, the Multiverse as we know it. Is this being introduced in Far from Home?

Watts: Well, I mean, yeah. We had to look at it in terms of the scope of what happened at the end of Endgame. Seeing all the crazy things that they did and all the questions that raises. So we’re definitely trying to answer one of the big ones — alternate timelines. So many possibilities opened up at the end of Endgame, and Peter Parker is one of the few people on the ground dealing with them.

We see Nick Fury in the Trailer. He has lost 5 years since the snap! Is he working with a new Organization?

Watts: Well, that was what was very exciting to me because this is a version of Nick Fury I don’t think we’ve ever seen, which is a Nick Fury who is playing catch-up. He disappeared for five years and the world changed dramatically in his absence, and here he is trying to put together a new team.

We get introduced to Jake Gyllenhaal as Mysterio. Tell us about him and where did the Elementals come from? The same place as Mysterio?

Watts: In the film, it’s similar to the trailer, he is introduced as a potential ally to fight off this elemental threat. Yes, exactly. Exactly. They’re both from the same sort of parallel dimension, yeah.

What was Happy Hogan’s role in the film?

Watts: Similar to Peter, who lost his mentor in Tony… you know, Happy has been there since the very beginning. I think a big part of this story is trying to find your place in the world if the center of your world is gone. I’ve always liked Happy as a character, and to use him to explore some of these things was really exciting. To explore a world without Tony, who was the man that created Iron Man.

It seems in Far from Home, Peter is trying to maintain his life as a teenager as opposed to wanting to live the superhero life and trying to fill the shoes of Tony. Is this an accurate assessment?

Watts: Yeah, you know in the last movie, it was like he was ready to step up, but the world was telling him no. Now, the world is asking him to step up, and he’s not sure whether he’s ready for that level of responsibility. Like, he’s still a 16-year-old kid from Queens. It’s something I can relate, too. I remember being a kid and you desparately want to be treated as an adult. But then suddenly you’re treated as an adult, and suddenly you realize that maybe it was better back when I was being treated as a kid. Once you cross that threshold, there’s no turning back.

What were you able to do in Far from Home that you couldn’t do in Homecoming?

Watts: Getting to work with Jake [Gyllenhaal] and Sam Jackson was amazing, but in terms of a pure filmmaking level, I really wanted to turn up the action and make that huge. In the last movie, we kept things a little bit smaller, intentionally, to remind people why they love Spider-Man. And without changing the tone, I wanted to keep that ground-level relatability, but also turn up the level of action to create something really spectacular. I wanted to show people things that they’ve never seen before at the movies.

If the trailer in any indication, Spider–Man Far from Home is going to pluck at the heartstrings and increase the action from the first film. Does the Trailer make you excited to see what Marvel has in store for its first follow up to End Game? Share that excitement with us at GVNation.

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Martin

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