Spider-Man 3 officially reveals title after fake name stunt

Spider-Man stars Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon sent fans into a spin yesterday with a trio of fake names. Now the real one has been revealed.

After trolling fans with three fake titles, Spider-Man 3 has revealed its real title — Spider-Man: No Way Home.

The movie’s three stars Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon each announced a different name yesterday - Phone Home, Home-Wrecker and Home Slice - which strongly suggested they were having a laugh as part of a marketing stunt.

And that’s exactly what it was, leading up to today’s confession, posted as a video on the Spider-Man movie’s Twitter account, which has been renamed Spider-Man: No Way Home, just for good measure in case fans now have trust issues.

Yesterday’s confusion started when Holland posted to his Instagram an announcement of the upcoming Spider-Man sequel’s title as Spider-Man: Phone Home along with the first image from the film, which is currently shooting in Atlanta, Georgia under director Jon Watts.

Watts also made the first two movies, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home.

That all seemed pretty par for the course, until soon after when castmate Jacob Batalon posted a different first look image along with the title reveal of Spider-Man: Home-Wrecker.

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As if that wasn’t confusing enough, Zendaya joined in with a third title, Home Slice.

The three separate titles even had fans on social media wondering if Phone Home,Home Wrecker and Home Slice were all official titles.

It wasn’t a completely wild theory because the sequel is widely expected to have a multiverse storyline in which Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Men will return as other iterations of the tingly superhero.

It’s already been confirmed that Alfred Molina and Jamie Foxx will reprise their roles from Sony’s previous Spider-Man films.

The idea is that all the previous Spider-Man movies will now become some form of canon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the explanation that it all happened, just not on our Earth, but in alternative universes.

The way the theory had gone is maybe the title is Spider-Man: Phone Home in one universe, Spider-Man: Home Wrecker in another and Spider-Man: Home Slice in another still – which was spinning a web too meta for us.

The Peter Tingle is coming back.

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The MCU will become much bigger with the introduction of the multiverse. It will be a key part of the Doctor Strange sequel which has the apt title Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness.

That movie started filming in London before it was interrupted by COVID shutdowns and is being directed by Sam Raimi, who also helmed the Maguire Spider-Man at the turn of the millennium.

Raimi took over directing after original director Scott Derrickson parted ways with Marvel over creative differences. Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff, currently the lead character in Disney+ original series WandaVision, will be in the Doctor Strange sequel with her TV series leading straight into it.

In turn, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange will feature in Spider-Man 3, alongside returning cast Holland, Batalon, Zendaya, Marissa Tomei and Tony Revolori.

There are also strong rumours Charlie Cox will reprise his role of Daredevil/Matt Murdock from the Marvel Netflix series.

Spider-Man: No Way Home will be released in Australia on Boxing Day while Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness is currently dated for March 2022. WandaVision is streaming now on Disney+ with new episodes on Fridays at 7pm AEDT.

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