**Spoilers for ‘Avengers: Endgame’**
It’s been tradition over the last few ‘Avengers’ films to have the big, massive epic team-up film followed by a smaller-scale solo film almost right away. Last year, after the Earth-shattering ‘Infinity War,’ the MCU took a step back (just on scale, not necessarily quality) with “Ant-Man & the Wasp.” This year, after the huge events of ‘Endgame,’ Marvel Studios does it again with the upcoming film “Spider-Man: Far From Home.” And according to the film’s director, the latest adventure with Peter Parker will tackle those ‘Endgame’ questions head-on.
“We saw how the various individuals reacted to [Tony’s death at the end of ‘Endgame’], but we haven’t seen the global fallout at all,” director Jon Watts said in a new interview with EW.
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That fallout seems to drive a lot of the story in ‘Far From Home.’ As seen in the latest trailer for the film, the sequel tackles the post-‘Endgame’ world and its implications without compromise. And if you’ve seen the new ‘Avengers’ film, you know there are tons of implications.
First, the director confirms that many of the characters from Peter’s life before ‘Infinity War’ were snapped, while a lot were left to experience the depressing five years in between films. But as far as Peter Parker’s life is concerned, Ned, MJ, Flash, and Aunt May have all been confirmed as being snapped. That means that when Peter goes back to school, at least some of his former classmates will be the same.
But the events of ‘Endgame’ apparently caused some unintended side-effects. Namely, the multiverse. As the trailer suggests, Peter gets help in ‘Far From Home’ from Jake Gyllenhaal’s character Quentin Beck, aka Mysterio, who claims to be from another universe and was brought into ours due to the snap.
“‘Endgame’ opened up the possibilities for a much, much larger universe,” said Watts. “All that stuff sort of converged in the perfect way for us.”
Of course, if you’re familiar with the comics, then you might be able to take a guess as to what the big twists might be.
But ‘Endgame’ consequences aside, ‘Far From Home’ has other goals other than to be your go-to source for post-Snap goodness. This is Peter Parker’s story, after all.
“Yeah, you know in [‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’], it was like he was ready to step up, but the world was telling him no,” Watts said, in another interview with Fandango. “Now, the world is asking him to step up, and he’s not sure whether he’s ready for that level of responsibility.”
He continued, “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 desperately 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 going back.”
And for those worried that the new trailer for ‘Far From Home’ spoiled too much of the film’s story, the director says you shouldn’t worry about that at all.
“You know, for a trailer that has a lot of stuff in it, it’s just really scratching the surface,” said Watts.
“Spider-Man: Far From Home” hits theaters on July 2.