The Spider-Man: Homecoming trailers have been criticised for showing off too much from the reboot but there are still plenty of surprises in store. However, there are some moments from those which didn't make it into the movie and director Jon Watts has now elaborated on why they were dropped.
First up is the shot of The Vulture descending towards the camera in the atrium of a hotel and second is the now very familiar moment where Spider-Man and Iron Man swoop through Queens together.
"The hotel atrium shot was originally created for Comic-Con, for like a sizzle reel before we had really shot anything; we had shot like two weeks of footage or something. That was never meant to be in the movie. But I did use that angle for Vulture’s reveal at the beginning of the movie; Vulture’s hovering, swooping towards the camera like that. I used that shot, it’s just no longer in an Atlanta hotel atrium. And the shot of [Spider-Man and Iron Man] in Queens, that was never in the movie."
Asked to elaborate on why that scene wasn't included in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Watts added: "I think what happened was in the very first trailer they wanted a shot of Spider-Man and Iron Man flying together. And they were going to use something from the Staten Island Ferry [scene], but it just didn’t look that great — the background plate, because the Staten Island terminal is a very simple building. It almost looks like an unrendered 3D object. So I think I was like ‘Let’s just put them in Queens. Let’s use that as a backdrop.’ Because we couldn’t just create a whole new shot, so let’s just use one of these shots of the subway; put them in there. I feel a little weird that there’s a shot in the trailer that’s not in the movie at all, but it’s a cool shot. It’s funny, I forgot that we did that."
It makes sense that Marvel and Sony would want to include a shot of the two heroes together and it's a scene which really emphasised the excitement surrounding Spider-Man's presence in the MCU.
Spider-Man and Iron Man do, however, share plenty of moments but none quite as memorable looking as that one. What do you guys think of these changes? Share your thoughts on that in the usual place!
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