Tom Holland spread out up about working with Alfred Molina inSpider - Man : No Way Home . WhileEternalsis next up on Marvel ’s 2021 release slate ,   this MCU Phase 4   film is perhaps the more fiercely anticipated of the two . No agency Homereleased its first trailerin late August , and it broke a viewership record antecedently held byAvengers : Endgame .

InNo Way Home , Holland befit up for his third solo - picnic as Spider - Man , picking up right after   J. Jonah Jameson ( J.K. Simmons ) give away Peter Parker ’s secret indistinguishability to the cosmos in 2019’sFar From Home . The upcoming moving-picture show   hear Peter turn to Doctor Strange ( Benedict Cumberbatch ) for a wizard   solution   to this mess ,   but a mishap barf a serious turn   accidentally opens up a multiversal portal . This is expected to unleash multiple villains from pastSpider - Manfranchises into the MCU ,   and the trailer confirmed   Holland ’s Peter will be confront off againstMolina ’s Doctor Octopus ,   recapitulate his part from 2004’sSpider - Man 2 .

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In a late conversation withEW , Holland open about getting the chance to work with Molina on the MCU film , call him " one of my favorite people I ’ve ever worked with . "   He also noted that it was   interesting to watch Molina forge with the in advance   technology . In Sam Raimi ’s film , Doc Ock ’s tentacles were created using practical effects , but now they are exclusively computer - generated , which apparently claim some acquiring used to :

[ Molina is ] one of my favourite mass I ’ve ever mold with . It was really fun to follow him see how technology has advanced . When he was wee these moving-picture show , the arms were puppet , and when we did it , they ’re all notional and CG . It was quite coolheaded to see him live over it , but also relearn it .

Holland has thus far star diametric villains play byMichael Keaton ( Vulture ) and Jake Gyllenhaal ( Mysterio)in his premature Spidey   films , not to mention the   unbelievable   ensembles he was part of inCaptain America : Civil War , Avengers : Infinity War , andAvengers : Endgame . Other than Holland , regulars rejoin for the threequel let in Zendaya as MJ , Marisa Tomei as Aunt May , Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan , Jacob Batalon as Ned , and Tony Revolori as Flash Thompson . Jamie Foxx will also be reprising his role as Electro , and given the trailer ’s crack of a autumn pumpkin turkey , an appearance from Willem Dafoe ’s Green Goblin remains likely .

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Considering the raiment of talented thespians Holland has partake in the screen with , it ’s quite high praise to name Molina as one of his favorites . It ’s still indecipherable just how large a roleDoc Ock will act inNo Way Home , as   he   could   be the film ’s basal villain or just one of many in an supporting players known as the Sinister Six . Rumors also continue to swirl that Sony ’s two former Spider - Men , Tobey McGuire and Andrew Garfield , will reprise their roles , despite many program line to the contrary from the moving picture ’s actors . All questions will be answered soon enough , though , asSpider - Man : No Way Homeswings into theater of operations on December 17 .

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