‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Extended Edition swings onto digital

By Lois Lane Daily Planet Reporter

Do you want more SpiderMan? Well, you know what they say, three is the magic number, and all three Spider-Men — Peter 1, Peter 2 and Peter 3 — are swinging onto digital with the release of “Spider-Man: No Way Home: The Extended Version.”

Featuring eleven minutes of new footage, an intro from all three Spideys (that’s Tom Holland, Andrew Garfeld, and Tobey Maguire), plus extended scenes and a new-mid credit tease, the Extended Version of the latest Spider-Man movie packs in so much more.

In “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” for the frst time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero’s identity is revealed, bringing his Super Hero responsibilities into confict with his normal life and putting those he cares about most at risk. When he enlists Doctor Strange’s help to restore his secret, the spell tears a hole in their world, releasing the most powerful villains who’ve ever fought a “Spider-Man in any universe.” Now, Peter will have to overcome his greatest challenge yet, which will not only forever alter his own future but the future of the Multiverse. The flm is directed by Jon Watts, written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal are producers and Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, JoAnn Perritano, Rachel O’Connor, Avi Arad, and Matt Tolmach are executive producers. The flm stars Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau with Marisa Tomei.

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Before being sacked, the embattered head honcho running DC Films clashed with Todd Phillips over “Joker”, which he only greenlighted with a small budget and divested Warner Bros. stake in the distribution of the commercially successful flm. Snyder called the Warner Bros. executives of the outgoing regime as “aggressively anti-Snyder” in an interview during the promotion circuit for “Zack Snyder’s Justice League”, dubbed the Snyder Cut, which released on March 18, Many DCEU followers speculate that the executive who called the Snyderverse a “culde-sac” was Walter Hamada. Hamada’s tenure as DC Films boss was marked with controversy as Cyborg actor Ray Fisher alleged that Hamada tried to cover-up workplace mistreatment and abuse on the set of “Justice League” by offering to throw Joss Whedon under the bus in return for Fisher sparing Geoff Johns.

Dwayne Johnson was recently revealed to have gone to Hamada’s superiors, Michael De Luca and Paula Abdy, to get approval for a last-minute cameo of Henry Cavill’s Superman.

This cameo then became a centerpoint for the marketing of Black Adam, with Dwayne Johnson leaning into the grass-roots hype around Cavill’s much-awaited return to the DCEU. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Dwayne Johnson simply said this about Henry Cavill reprising his role as Superman in the DCEU: "Welcome home.”

In the wake of Walter Hamada’s exit, Zack Snyder shares charity t-shirt fundraiser for AFSP.

After the exit was announced, Snyder to to favored social platform VERO to announce the t-shit campaign (see front page), which featured original art by Soham Apte. Some fans assumed at frst that Adam Forman was the artist behind the t-shirt. Adam Forman designed the “All the Gods” t-shirt, “Associate Producer” t-shirt, and The Stone Quarry logo, as well as tattoos for Zack Snyder. Some Snyder fans may recognize Adam Forman from a video where Zack Snyder and Adam Forman gave instructions for fans to write their name on the “Associate Producer” t-shirts.

Soham Apte revealed on social media that he had no communication with Zack Snyder, although he put his own symbolism into the t-shirt design. The t-shirt art features logos of the Justice League, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg, the Flash, Martian Manhunter, and Green Lantern.

The art shows a flm reel around the stem of the Holy Grail, symbolizing the mythical status of the SnyderCut, which many had denied even existed before the offcial announcement of its release.

There are 14 swords pointing towards the Earth, showing the solidarity of fans fghting for the cause. The numbers "214" and "241" refer to the original planned runtime of 214 minutes for the Snyder Cut, which ended up having 241 minutes upon release. On the grail, there is Greek text which translates to Lazarus, referring to a flm metaphorically being brought back from the dead.

The artist teased that there’s a special constellation of stars represented in the art, and confrmed a fellow fan’s answer: “It’s Ara, or the Altar, where the gods vowed allegiance before battling the Titans.”

Zack Snyder is known to be cheeky with the timing of his Vero posts as a way to acknowledge DC flm news without directly commenting on it.

For example, when Ava DuVernay's “New Gods” flm project was canceled, Snyder posted a concept art image of Granny Goodness. When Tatiana Siegel posted a hit-piece for Rolling Stone against the Snyder fandom, Snyder posted an edit of the frst “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” poster with orange text on top that said "If I advance, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, avenge me." Despite the charity t-shirt campaign using fan art, fans still took the timing of Snyder’s post as a sign of hope for seeing Zack Snyder’s sequels to his “Justice League” someday soon.

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This scene was frst imaged by Hubble in 1995 and revisited in 2014, but many other observatories have also stared deeply at this region. Each advanced instrument offers researchers new details about this region, which is practically over f owing with stars. This tightly cropped image is set within the vast Eagle Nebula, which lies 6,500 light-years away.

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