Spoilers forSpider-Man: Far from HomeandAvengers: Endgamefollow below.
A peek at a post-Tony Stark world, if you will.
Check out the full interview below.Spider-Man: Far from Homeis in theaters everywhere now.
I’m curious what the conversation was like when you guys were first hired to write this script.
And then we’ll take it from there, but things can change a lot.
It’s just a set of ideas to sort of get the whole conversation started.
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When you guys were hired, did you know that you were coming out right afterEndgame?
Was this kind of always set up to be the next Marvel story being told after that bigAvengersmovie?
SOMMERS: Yes it was.
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CHRIS MCKENNA: We knew.
It’s all laid out.
Marvel, they have a plan.
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MCKENNA: We had to deal with the Blip, and we had to deal with Tony.
Those were the two big plot points that we were handed.
Like whats the nitty-gritty of half the world disappearing and half the world staying?
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Or in, specifically from the movie, an eleven-year-old elementary school student is now the class hunk.
He is traumatized, confused and vulnerable by what happened to him personally.
So, Mysterio is the perfect villain to take advantage of that, to get what he wants.
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Selling the lie, because thats what people want.
Really kind of hitting upon something that speaks to the world we live in today.
SOMMERS: Obviously we live in a world of fractured reality.
Everyone is living in their own bubble of what they see as the truth.
We follow social media that just confirms our own biases.
We can’t even agree on what’s fact and what’s fiction.
For the first act of the movie, Mysterio is set up as the good guy.
Where that happens in the movie now is pretty much where we always wanted it to happen.
We didn’t really want to hold it that much longer.
Its interesting looking at the film because, structurally, it’s very tricky.
MCKENNA: Yeah, that was the big challenge.
Is anyone going to buy this?
Not only Peter and Nick Fury … Was Vulture ever supposed to come back?
I remember there were reports that he was, maybe, coming back.
Was that a consideration at one time?
SOMMERS: I don’t really remember that ever being something we were talking about.
You mentioned Nick Fury.
That’s the other kind of big reveal in the film, that Nick and Maria are actually Skrulls.
I know Jon had said that that was a fairly late addition, after he sawCaptain Marvel.
SOMMERS: We played a lot with that idea for a long time.
There were some early, early versions of this movie were Mysterio was a Skrull.
So, there were a lot of Skrull versions of the story early on.
How many distractions can we get away with before people want to murder us?
SOMMERS: It was an early idea about why he was doing everything he was doing.
But we talked about a lot of stuff.
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.
Was there any debate about maybe not letting her find out that he’s Spider-Man?
MCKENNA: Oh, you betcha!
I know you’re Spider-Man.
SOMMERS: Yeah, that was Watts.
Watts, who obviously is not only a brilliant director, but a great writer.
There’s that whole scene on the plane that has the AC/DC music with Happy and everything.
SOMMERS: That’s correct.
What does it mean?
Where do we go from here?
Are there even Avengers anymore?
All those questions that we had basically, we got funneled into the movie itself.
What does it mean to be a hero in this post-Endgameworld?
What does it mean to be an Avenger?
Is Peter an Avenger?
Is there a mantle for him to hold?
What is an MCU without Iron Man?
I was just curious if you guys have discussed sequel plans.
Do you know if you’re coming back to write another Spider-Man movie?
Did you kind of discuss where it goes from there?
SOMMERS: We know nothing.
We’ll go where they tell us to go, if they want us.
MCKENNA: We would be delighted to do another one, but we haven’t heard anything yet.
