Spider-Man: Brand New Day star Tom Holland says this latest installment of the franchise will have “more humor” than was previously planned, with additional photography recently shot also expanding a “villain plotline.”
“I can positively say that the stuff we’re doing, we don’t need,” Holland says in a new interview with GQ. “The movie works and sings as it is. We’re just adding the icing on the cake in certain areas. We’re finding some ways to add a little bit more humor. We’re layering in a villain plotline in a new way and some really fun stuff.”
The Destin Daniel Cretton-directed Marvel-Sony Pictures release will arrive in theaters July 31 (watch the trailer here). The latest adventure is set four years after the events of No Way Home, and will have Holland’s Peter Parker/Spider-Man re-teaming with Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk and Jon Bernthal’s Punisher to take on a new threat. The cast also includes Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Tramell Tillman and Michael Mando.
In the new interview, Holland also discusses the upcoming Christopher Nolan film The Odyssey, which also stars Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and Zendaya, hitting theaters July 17.
“It’s unlike anything that I’ve ever seen before,” Holland said. “I think when I saw the movie, I found myself asking a question that I haven’t asked about a movie for a long time, which is, ‘How did you do that?’” Holland specifically points to Nolan’s devotion to practical, in-camera special effects.
“I think fans are going to be really, really blown away by the set pieces and sequences throughout the movie,” he says, “because even as someone that was there on the day and was in the film, I was absolutely blown away by the scale, the scope, his ability to navigate such an intricate and heartfelt story in the middle of this insane kind of action movie.”
“I am a real advocate for theatrical and the cinema and the communal experience of sitting in a dark room and being entertained. And I think there are some studios that do a better job of that than others, and I’m really keen to build relationships with those guys so that as a community, we can keep the cinemas going. I think that that is something for the next 10 years of my life that I will be very focused on.”
Holland also has words of praise for Odyssey co-star Damon. (Holland plays Telemachus, son of Damon’s Odysseus.)
“I mean, we spent so much time together, and what I’m really grateful for with Matt is that he is exactly what I would have hoped he would be like,” Holland says. “He was a leader. This was a very tough movie and no one worked harder than Matt did. And he always came to set with a smile on his face and he was gracious and he was so kind to the crew. And I think he really set the tone for everyone as to how we were going to collectively make this film. So there are words of wisdom that he’s given me that I’ll keep to myself, but there’s a lot that I learned from him from just being a spectator on set and watching the legend that is Matt Damon work.”
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