The Inspiration Behind Spider-Man’s New Suit Is Hollywood Years in the Making
Spider-Man: Brand New Day just revealed new details about Peter Parker’s suit. Marvel fans have been waiting for this development for a long time.
Tom Holland’s Wall-Crawler is back and Entertainment Weekly got the first page of the brand-new movie’s script. In those first moments, the margin notes draw attention to the fact that Peter Parker’s suit is hand-made this time around. The Tony Stark suits are gone, and our Friendly Neighborhood Hero is alone. (In more ways than one!)
As an added bonus, Spider-Man’s new suit is inspired by his adventure with Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man and Andrew Garfield’s Variant in Spider-Man: No Way Home. That cinematic event united the live-action movie heroes. It seems like meeting Peter 2 and Peter 3 held quite a hold over our struggling friend.
Director Destin Daniel Cretton writes the notes in the margins that will guide our boy into the future. They read, “No Stark money or gadgets. All of his tech needs to have been made by Peter.”
A VFX Supervisor argues, “Let’s make sure the suit has wrinkles.” Cretton replies, “Yes!!! New suit made by Peter, inspired by his encounter w/ Toby’s & Andrew’s Spider-Men. – Real fabric, seams, wrinkles.”
Spider-Man: Brand New Day teases homemade suit
One of the funniest things about this fervor around Spider-Man’s new costume is that we’ve basically seen it before? And, not just in a “every Spidey suit looks similar” way either. Brand New Day’s take on Peter Parker’s iconic uniform is basically indistinguishable from the suit at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home?
Dubbed the “final swing suit” by fans, this uniform combo took a little something from both Tobey and Andrew’s renditions and made something for Holland. His little gold spider is a nice touch for the MCU fans that didn’t have such strong opinions about how “classic Spider-Man is the only one that’s valid.”
Marvel Studios Visual Development lead Ryan Meinerding posted about that design on social media after the movie dropped. “Spider-Man: No Way Home! This the design for the final suit, such an amazing honor to do this for Sony and Marvel,” Meinerding explained to fans.
“Thank you so much Kevin, Amy, Jon, Lou, Victoria and Rachel! And of course thank you to the incredible VFX team delivering the magic to bring it all to life!!,” he added. “The movie is so special and Tom is phenomenal!!”
Why does the classic suit matter to people so much?
Let’s be real, the United States and its pop culture are locked in a nostalgia loop from the last 30 years or so. Tobey Maguire Spider-man occupies a great deal of space when it comes to the popular image of Spider-Man for multiple Marvel fans. And, to be frank, a lot of the older comic book movie fans treat Spider-Man 1, 2, and even now 3, as sacred texts.
Any stylistic choice that was going to bring Tom Holland’s iteration of the character more in line with those 2000s films was going to be received warmly. Look no further than the response to the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home a couple of years ago.
As the character gets longer and longer in the tooth as a property, there has been a lot of conversation about keeping the classical elements of Peter Parker. Spider-man’s publication history is littered with weird changes, interesting swings, and general chaos. Anyone who’s paid attention thinks this is hysterical.
Tom Holland swinging around as Spider-Man in a MCU co-produced film looking like a mix of the previous two on-screen Spidey’s? The older fans will take that as a win. In fact, a lot of the marketing for Spider-Man: Brand New Day has had this conciliatory tone. “We’re Listening To The Fans: The Movie,” basically.
It’ll probably work just fine!
(featured image: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
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