After an early leak, Sony and Marvel have released the teaser (though this is a pretty detail-filled trailer to call it a teaser) for the third MCU Spider-Man movie: No Way Home.
The premise, it seems, is a classic case of Peter Parker trying to fix one of his problems by introducing a whole new problem.
In the post-credits scene of Spider-Man: Far From Home, Peter and MJ take a romantic web-swing around New York, only to see JK Simmons' J. Jonah Jameson, reimagined in the MCU as an Alex Jones-style far-right conspiracy slinger, releasing footage doctored by Mysterio's effects team to not only unmask Peter, but also implicate him in Mysterio's death.
Here, we catch up with Peter dealing with the repercussions of his identity being revealed - though he seems to beat the charges in Mysterio's death, he's hounded by people who no longer trust him and now threaten his family.
But Peter Parker knows a freaking wizard, so he goes to Doctor Strange and has the Sorcerer Supreme cast a spell to undo his doxxing, but when he realizes that this would also mean that those close to him would forget his secret identity as well. The spell, naturally, goes wrong, and it seems that he and Doctor Strange are sent on a universe-hopping adventure.
While it was discovered many months ago, the most exciting and mind-bending reveal here is that this movie looks like it will be melding the canon of the earlier, pre-MCU movies. The trailer reveals both the return of Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin and Alfred Molina's Doctor Octopus (the latter somewhat more explicitly, as he actually shows up on screen.) Supposedly Jaime Foxx's Electro will also appear, meaning that the earlier Spider-Man movies are, in fact, canonical, but from other universes.
The MCU Spider-Man movies have been delightful, with a great young cast and the requisite ties to the greater Marvel universe. But it definitely seems that Marvel is committed to this multiversal theme, and gets to do some fan service along the way.
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