FILM · 2019 · USA
Spider-Man: Far from Home
- Directed by
- Jon Watts
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Studio
- Marvel Studios, Pascal Pictures, Columbia Pictures
203 archived facts 6 topics 1 source Last reviewed Nov 2026
Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the continent.
203 Interesting Facts About Spider-Man: Far from Home
Interesting Facts (90)
- #001
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(Around the 33rd minute) When Peter mentions Captain Marvel, Fury snaps, "Don't invoke her name!" The line takes on new meaning once we learn that the Skrull Talos has been posing as Fury all along: the name "Mar-Vell" belongs to the woman who gave her life protecting Talos's family and other Skrull refugees.
- #002
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Soon after Captain America: Civil War (2016) brought Spider-Man into the MCU, a fan theory held that Quentin Beck (Mysterio) created the BARF technology, fueling speculation he'd be the villain of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). Homecoming went with the Vulture, but Far From Home's villain is Mysterio, and the film confirms the theory: he did invent the technology (and got Tony's praise for it).
- #003
The Dutch tulip field scene was shot on a lawn in England and needed around two million digital tulips.
- #004
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(Around 25 minutes) Researching water attacks, Flash Thompson pulls up an article about scientific experiments on a sailor named Morris Bench, who in the comics is Hydro-Man.
- #005
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(Around 2 hours 5 minutes) The post-credits scene confirms a theory raised by Captain Marvel (2019): Nick Fury is (at least some of the time) actually a Skrull. Talos appears to be handling Captain Marvel/Cosmic Avenger-level missions while standing in for Fury. Presumably after the events of The Avengers (2012), once he knew the team had assembled, Fury took his talents to space and left Talos in his place, which would explain why Fury is eating cross-sectioned toast in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) (he'd told Carol Danvers he disliked it).
- #006
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On his way to meet MJ for their date, about 1 hour 50 minutes in, Peter swings past the Osborn mansion from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films.
- #007
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At about 18 minutes, soon after the class reaches the run-down hotel and just before the water elemental battle, Quentin Beck can be spotted lurking around Peter Parker, along with a few of his men.
- #008
One of Tom Holland's favorite action beats comes around the 21st minute, during the Water Elemental's attack on Venice, when Peter runs along a row of poles boats are tied to. He regretted ignoring the stunt coordinator's advice to wear shin guards.
- #009
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The very first word of dialogue gives away that Fury and Hill are Skrulls. As Captain Marvel (2019) established, everyone calls him "Fury," and Talos blew his cover by greeting Fury in the elevator as "Nick." Here, the first word spoken is Hill calling Fury "Nick."
- #010
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At about 1 hour 10 minutes, the suit Beck turns out to be wearing (the black one-piece covered in triangles) is the kind of motion-capture suit actors wear when performing for computer-generated characters.
- #011
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At about the 31st minute, introducing Peter to Quentin Beck, Nick Fury says Beck is from Earth, "just not yours." Talking about Earth, Fury should really have said "ours," but it makes sense once we learn the man posing as Fury is Talos.
- #012
Peter's passport gives his birthday as August 10; Spider-Man first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15, published on August 10, 1962.
- #013
As often happens with MCU films, a clip featured heavily in several trailers isn't in the finished film: Spider-Man taking down a gang in a restaurant before leaving on his school trip to Europe, wearing the nanotech Iron Spider suit from Avengers: Infinity War (2018). May briefly mentions it, and the scene is in the extended cut.
- #014
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Both "Spider-Man: Far from Home" and Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) end with the same last line of dialogue, "What the F**k?!": Aunt May says it at the end of Homecoming, and Peter as Spider-Man says it at the end of the Far From Home mid-credits scene.
- #015
Around the 18th minute: Jake Gyllenhaal is almost never seen out of his "superhero" suit. He was asked to wear other clothes for some scenes, but he says he loved the suit so much he refused. A sharp eye can spot him in street clothes, watching Peter Parker before Peter buys the Black Dahlia necklace, ahead of the Hydro-Man attacks.
- #016
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Watch the rooftop talk between Mysterio and Spider-Man closely: though they sit very close together, Mysterio never touches Spider-Man and has to search a little to meet Peter's eyes, because the "Flying Mysterio" we're seeing is only an illusion.
- #017
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About 4 minutes in, while Peter and Ned discuss Peter's "plans" for MJ in class, a big collage of Iron Man pictures hangs on the noticeboard behind Peter. On the board behind Ned, seemingly facing it, is a row of surrealist prints, the most prominent being René Magritte's "The False Mirror" (1929), a hint at the plot and at Mysterio as a false reflection of Iron Man. The heart of "The False Mirror" is an eye whose iris is a round sphere filled with cloudy sky, much like Mysterio's helmet.
- #018
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Spider-Man's Spider-Sense is called the "Peter Tingle" throughout, with a couple of nods to the comics: May startles Peter by tossing him a banana (it doesn't work on people Peter doesn't subconsciously see as a threat), and in the final fight with Mysterio, Peter briefly closes his eyes and relies on it to see through the illusions (in the comics he has done this several times, much like Daredevil's radar, to find enemies when he can't use his eyes).
- #019
Peter builds his new Spider-Man suit with purpose and determination. Costume designer Anna B. Sheppard says: "The suit is Peter's vision for Spider-Man. He is no longer trying to be Iron Man."
- #020
At about the 31st minute, meeting Peter, Beck explains that Peter is on Earth-616 while he comes from Earth-833. Comic readers will recognize Earth-616 as the traditional name of the main Marvel universe; Earth-833 is the universe where Spider-UK serves in the Captain Britain Corps.
- #021
The voice of E.D.I.T.H. belongs to Dawn Michelle King, who was first assistant editor on both "Far From Home" and Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).
- #022
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At about 1 hour 29 minutes, as Peter designs his new suit, Happy plays AC/DC's "Back In Black," the song from the opening of Iron Man (2008). Comically, Peter mistakes the band for Led Zeppelin, whose "Immigrant Song" featured prominently in Thor: Ragnarok (2017).
- #023
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At about 1 hour 50 minutes, near the end, as Spider-Man swings across town to meet MJ, he pulls out his phone and takes a selfie, striking the same pose Spider-Man does when taking a selfie in the PS4 game Spider-Man (2018).
- #024
On the plane, Peter can choose between "The Snap," "Finding Wakanda," "Hunting Hydra," "Nova: Einstein Rosen Bridges with Erik Selvig" and "Heart of Iron: The Tony Stark Story."
- #025
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At about the 1-hour-55-minute mark, as Peter and MJ swing through New York together for the first time while the film wraps up, they pass a sign reading: "We are so excited… to show you… what comes next," above "1…2…3…?", possibly a hint at the end of the MCU's Phase 3 and the start of Phase 4.
- #026
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In the US trailer, Peter's passport is missing key information: his birthday reads August 10, and the issue and expiry dates July 19 and July 18, but none of the years are shown. Look closely and it seems the years were deliberately blurred by the CGI artists, most likely because in Avengers: Endgame (2019) Thanos's snap wasn't undone until 2023, meaning everyone "blipped" in 2018 came back five years behind those who weren't; showing the years would have given that away. Neither the passport nor the scene of Peter asking for it made the final cut.
- #027
Director Jon Watts wanted the glasses on the black Spider-Man suit to be the exact opposite of what Iron Man would wear; they were also inspired by the flip-up glasses popular in the 1980s.
- #028
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Director Jon Watts called it a "con man movie" with "so many layers of deception," and felt ending it with "one last twist" in the post-credits scenes was right in keeping with the film.
- #029
At about 1 hour 45 minutes, in the crown jewels vault, Happy calls the halberd Ned is holding a spear and Ned corrects him; on the plane to Europe, Ned's avatar in the game Beast Slayer uses a halberd.
- #030
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At about 1 hour 45 minutes, in the final battle, Peter makes himself a hammer-like weapon from the wreckage of Tower Bridge and the cars on it, then grabs a large metal sign as a shield. When he starts running, he looks a lot like Captain America charging with his shield and Thor's hammer Mjölnir in the final battle of Avengers: Endgame (2019).
- #031
At about the 7th minute, the giant check Happy hands over early in the film reads "Synchrony"; Synchrony Bank issues the Marvel Credit Card.
- #032
To prevent leaks, most of the cast got redacted scripts with only their own characters' material.
- #033
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At about 1 hour 29 minutes, designing his new suit, Peter puts his arm into a hologram to see how it looks, just as Tony Stark does while building the Mark 2 armor in the first Ironman film.
- #034
Jake Gyllenhaal says this film radically changed how he sees filmmaking: he'd always approached films with very intense commitment, but he enjoyed this one so much it taught him how to relax on set.
- #035
J. B. Smoove's part was greatly expanded after the producers saw an Audi commercial he'd made with Tom Holland; their chemistry was strong enough to have the script rewritten.
- #036
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E. D. I. T. H. stands for "Even Dead, I'm The Hero." With the doctored footage on it, Beck manages to paint himself as a hero after his death; J. Jonah Jameson even calls him one, while blaming Peter for his actions and his murder.
- #037
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Quentin Beck claims the fire Elemental can absorb surrounding metal on contact, but never explains why it could, or why something supposedly embodying the natural order would care about refined metal. The answer is that it wouldn't: Beck needed a way to make it seem capable of becoming an even bigger threat by going after a substance that's everywhere. Fury and Hill exchange skeptical looks but don't openly question it.
- #038
Just before Peter buys MJ the necklace, Quentin Beck can be glimpsed in the crowd out of costume.
- #039
Jake Gyllenhaal joked that in Mysterio's armor he sometimes felt like a T-Rex: the forearm pieces, called vambraces, restricted his arm movements.
- #040
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To keep J. Jonah Jameson's appearance at the end a secret, the producers waited until late in post-production, just before release, to shoot the cameo. J. K. Simmons filmed his scene with Jon Watts and a small crew in a conference room at Marvel's New York office in just two hours; ironically, Watts noted, it was the same setup used for children's news broadcasts (an actor, a desk and a green screen).
- #041
When Tom Holland first landed Spider-Man, he made a list of things he wanted to achieve in the role; one was working with Jake Gyllenhaal.
- #042
(At about 5 minutes) Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) confirms early on that she too was one of the victims of Thanos's "snap" in Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Before Avengers: Endgame (2019) came out, though, the Russo brothers had said Aunt May was among the survivors; whether that was deliberate misdirection or a change of plan hasn't been reported.
- #043
Nick Fury was going to be Peter Parker's mentor in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) before the job went to Tony Stark/Iron Man.
- #044
(About 4 minutes in) Peter says MJ's favorite flower is the black dahlia "because of the murder," meaning the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short, one of Los Angeles's most famous unsolved crimes.
- #045
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Cobie Smulders didn't know she wasn't playing the real Maria Hill until a week before the premiere.
- #046
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Numan Acar plays Dmitri, a silent agent working for Nick Fury who's good at blending in, taking on different roles to keep an eye on Peter Parker (such as driving the school group's tour bus). Dmitri is also the first name of the Spider-Man villain Chameleon (Dmitri Smerdyakov), likewise known for slipping into other identities. Despite the similarities, it hasn't been confirmed that Acar's character is the MCU's version of the villain.
- #047
(At about 35 minutes) As the class travels over the Alps toward Prague, a 1973 song called "Slnko" ("Sun") plays. It's often taken for Czech, but it's Slovak; a Slovak song in a film this size was unprecedented, and the singer, Marcela Laiferová, said she was surprised it was chosen, adding that given the chance she'd have suggested one of her songs with more of a story.
- #048
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(At about 2 hours 5 minutes) The space station Fury oversees may be the Alpha Flight Station introduced fairly recently in the Captain Marvel comics. Alpha Flight was originally a Canadian superhero team, but the name was later given to a space station commanded by Captain Marvel as the planet's first line of defense.
- #049
Early on, a water elemental attacks Venice, wrecking buildings and bridges and at one point flooding St. Mark's Square. Coincidentally and tragically, Venice (and St. Mark's Basilica) suffered severe flooding in 2019, the year the film came out, with water levels reaching their second- and third-highest since records began in the 1800s.
- #050
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(At about 1 hour 40 minutes) In the thrilling Tower Bridge battle, Spider-Man takes out several drones in one move and lands in Iron Man's signature pose, furthering the film's "Spider-Man is the new Iron Man" thread.
- #051
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(At about 1 hour 55 minutes) The shirt MJ wears around New York with Spider-Man shows the outfit Zendaya wore to the 2018 Met Gala, dressed as Joan of Arc.
- #052
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(At about the 31st minute) When Mysterio calls our Earth "Earth-616," some viewers can tell he's lying: Earth-616 is the main universe of Marvel Comics, while the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this film included, takes place on Earth-199999.
- #053
At 1:51, an overturned car has the plate TASM 143; in issue 143 of The Amazing Spider-Man, Peter and MJ share their first kiss, as they do in Far From Home.
- #054
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(At about 17 minutes) The camera Peter's teacher uses in Italy (the one that ends up in the water) seems to be a tribute to the camera Peter Parker used in the 90s cartoon.
- #055
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Early on, most characters assume aliens somehow had a hand in the arrival of the Elementals and Mysterio. Since the bumbling Skrulls are part of why Mysterio's plan nearly works, they turn out to be oddly right.
- #056
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At about 1 hour 55 minutes, in the mid-credits scene, Peter Parker is exposed as Spider-Man on television, a final act of revenge by Quentin Beck and his men. It's based on the Civil War event in the comics, in which Spider-Man revealed his secret identity at a press conference in support of the Superhuman Registration Act.
- #057
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Even when the Fire Elemental grows big enough to fill the whole square in Prague, nobody is visibly burned, not even when Beck flies straight at it, an early hint that whatever is physically there gives off no more than ordinary heat. Likewise, Beck's costume doesn't look protective and nothing suggests he's superhumanly tough, yet fighting the Elementals, even flying right into the Fire Elemental, he takes as much punishment as Spider-Man or more. That's because the Mysterio we see taking hits is only a projection; the real Beck is never in danger.
- #058
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At about 1 hour 26 minutes, after Happy picks him up in the Netherlands, Peter shouts at him and immediately apologizes: the last person he shouted at was Uncle Ben, and he never got to say sorry.
- #059
As in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), three of the four "Avengers" films and all three "Iron Man" films, Audis feature heavily throughout, part of Audi's extensive product placement deal with Marvel. In this film, set five years in the future, most of the cars are Audi e-tron SUVs, Audi's first fully electric production model, launched in 2019 as the first of many planned Audi EVs. (Tony Stark drove an electric concept version of the Audi R8 in Iron Man 3 (2013), but it never went into production.)
- #060
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Peter telling MJ "The news never lies" is a serious case of Tempting Fate, and it comes back to bite him in the mid-credits scene, when J. Jonah Jameson brands Spidey a murderer and terrorist thanks to Mysterio's dying video message.
- #061
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Still in his "Night Monkey" disguise, Peter tries to ask a random woman for directions, and she panics, screams "Night Monkey!" and runs. That makes little sense, since if she knows the "Night Monkey" name she's seen the news that Night Monkey helped Mysterio and saved people at the carnival. It's the first sign that Peter has stepped into Mysterio's illusion.
- #062
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The news report at the start shows photos of all the Avengers who died for good in the war against Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Captain America didn't die (he chose to go back to the past of another timeline), but the film makes clear that the public was led to believe he was killed in action, to explain his absence along with the other Avengers and SHIELD.
- #063
At about 17 minutes, the Midtown High students check into the Hotel DeMatteis in Venice, perhaps a nod to J. M. DeMatteis, who wrote many of Spider-Man's most famous comics, including "Kraven's Last Hunt."
- #064
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At about 1 hour 55 minutes, J. K. Simmons's J. Jonah Jameson in the mid-credits scene made him the sixth actor to appear in both a Marvel Cinematic Universe film and a DC Extended Universe film, after Zachary Levi, Djimon Hounsou, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Randall Park and Callan Mulvey. Ayelet Zurer appeared in Man of Steel (2013) and the Marvel series Daredevil (2015), but not in an MCU film.
- #065
It's the first Spider-Man film with the traditional music, rather than a musical note, over the Sony Columbia Pictures logo.
- #066
The fight with the Fire Elemental wasn't filmed in Prague but in Liberec, a city about 100 kilometres north of it.
- #067
Though never named as such, the four Elementals match four Spider-Man villains: the wind Elemental is called Cyclone (a Spider-Man villain's name), the water Elemental resembles Hydro-Man, the lava Elemental resembles Molten Man, and the earth Elemental resembles Sandman.
- #068
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When Peter first meets Beck, he calls him Mysterio after an Italian news report dubs him that, and Beck seems taken aback, saying he'd rather go by his real name. But the next time they meet, just as Nick Fury is about to introduce him by name, Beck cuts in and insists on Mysterio, a sign he isn't as modest as he seems.
- #069
It was the fourth biggest box-office hit of 2019.
- #070
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Immediately after Peter hands over E.D.I.T.H., Beck, preparing to leave to go ask MJ out, tells him his chances of success are only 50% because it is "kinda awkward." This seems odd, since Beck had previously done nothing but be supportive and encouraging to Peter, likely to butter him up into handing over E.D.I.T.H. Now that Beck has what he wants, he begins to drop the courtesy act. Of course, right after Peter leaves, Mysterio is revealed to be evil after all.
- #071
"Spider-Man: Far From Home" was written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, who besides Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) have teamed up on blockbusters such as Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017).
- #072
VFX supervisor Janek Sirrs called Mysterio a "larger-than-life showman at heart… a superhero version of Liberace!"
- #073
Producer Amy Pascal wanted the characters to stay grounded even as they flew off to Europe: "It was important for us to place Peter in new environments, but never at the expense of what makes these characters so special."
- #074
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(At about 1 hour 40 minutes) Trapped in the Crown Jewels vault and convinced the drones are about to kill them, Happy and the kids start sharing secrets, and Happy blurts out that he's in love with Spider-Man's aunt. That could have put Spider-Man's identity at risk, since only MJ and Ned knew; Betty and Flash have no idea Spidey and Peter are the same person, and Happy's slip might have led them to it. It becomes rather moot, of course, when Mysterio exposes Peter's identity to everyone after his death, in the post-credits scene.
- #075
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(At about 1 hour 19 minutes) In one of Mysterio's illusion sequences, a horde of Spider-Man copies attacks Peter, possibly a nod to Mysterio using them in his boss fight in the original Spider-Man 2 (2004) game.
- #076
At around the 30-minute mark in Venice, Nick Fury quotes to Peter Parker: "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown…", a fitting line from William Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Part II, Act III, Scene 1.
- #077
The producers chose to cut the "Dun dun dunnnnnnnn" sound after each of Mysterio's explanations in the toast he gives after taking the EDITH glasses.
- #078
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Just before the water elemental attacks, several pairs of wakes from Beck's submerged drones can be seen in the canal.
- #079
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Fighting the fire elemental, Peter's web-shooters are at one point blocked by something he can't see, a big clue that more is going on. MJ picks up the web and the piece of metal it caught, and she and Peter discover it's part of an advanced drone with hologram projectors.
- #080
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Mysterio was designed as a blend of several Avengers: his costume borrows from Iron Man's and Thor's armor, Beck claims to be a military hero like Captain America, and his manipulation and deception (and drones) take after Black Widow.
- #081
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The revelation of a satellite carrying thousands of small, deadly armed drones that can be deployed anywhere in the world in an instant, all controlled by EDITH, is a problem much like Project Insight.
- #082
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Delivering the "coded message" to Fury (really Talos), Happy suggests Fury is a surfer; the first disguise Talos took when he arrived on Earth with Captain Marvel was a surfer.
- #083
(At around 22 minutes) The mask Peter wears trying to stop the Water Elemental resembles a Venice Carnival mask. Carnival is a Catholic festival held before Lent, and Venice's is among the oldest in the world.
- #084
Director Jon Watts wanted to include Morbius, Blade and the Chameleon, but none of them made it in. Morbius and the Chameleon later turned up in Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU), in Morbius (2022) and Kraven the Hunter (2024) respectively.
- #085
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J. K. Simmons shot his J. Jonah Jameson scene just a few days after Marvel first reached out to his manager, so there wasn't time to give him Jameson's trademark flat-top from the comics and Sam Raimi's films.
- #086
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(At around 1 hour 55 minutes) Peter's landing spot on the way to his date with MJ is near the library where Jake Gyllenhaal's character waited for his father in The Day After Tomorrow (2004).
- #087
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That the Nick Fury who meets Spider-Man in Berlin is really Quentin Beck is foreshadowed by his reaction when the fake Europol headquarters illusion starts to fade: he acts completely shocked, even though he drove them there and should have known it was the wrong building.
- #088
(About 12 minutes in) Ned claims Peter is allergic to perfume so Peter can sit next to MJ on the plane; J. B. Smoove, who plays one of the chaperones, designed perfumes before becoming an actor.
- #089
The first teaser was watched 130 million times in its first 24 hours, the first official trailer 135 million times.
- #090
"A Message to You, Rudy," on the soundtrack, also features prominently in Chef (2014), another Jon Favreau film.
Production Story (93)
- #091
Jeffrey Henderson's storyboards revealed plans for Bruce Campbell to appear as Mysterio in the cancelled Spider-Man 4, part of what Sam Raimi called "a montage of C and D-list villains that we knew would never be used as main antagonists." Raimi later confirmed it: "I miss the really great cameo we had designed for Bruce Campbell. [Mysterio] was one of the possibilities. We had other things in mind too, but that was one of them." Raimi and Campbell have been friends since high school, and Campbell appears in nearly all of Raimi's films, all three Spider-Man films included; his Mysterio turn was meant to tie all his earlier Spider-Man cameos together.
- #092
(At roughly the 33rd minute) When Peter mentions Captain Marvel, Fury responds with "Don't invoke her name!" This line gains new context when it is revealed that the Skrull Talos has been impersonating Fury throughout the film. Talos is referring to Peter's use of the name "Captain Marvel," since Mar-Vell gave her life to protect Talos's family and the other Skrull refugees.
- #093
The Dutch tulip field scene was shot on a lawn in England. Roughly two million digital tulips were required.
- #094
(At roughly 25 minutes) While Flash Thompson is researching the water terror, he brings up an article about scientific experiments conducted on a sailor named Morris Bench, who is Hydro-Man in the comics.
- #095
(At roughly 2 hours 5 minutes) The post-credits scene confirms a theory raised in Captain Marvel (2019): Nick Fury is (at least sometimes) actually a Skrull. Talos appears to be managing Captain Marvel/Cosmic Avenger-level missions while serving as a stand-in envoy for Fury. Probably after the events of The Avengers (2012), Fury, learning that the team had assembled, took his talents into space and left Talos in his place, which is why Fury is eating a cross-sectioned toast in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) (because he had told Carol Danvers that he disliked cross-sectioned toast).
- #096
(At roughly 1 hour 50 minutes) As Peter swings to meet MJ for their date, he passes by the Osborn family mansion from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films.
- #097
(At roughly 18 minutes) Early in the film, after arriving at the shabby hotel, Quentin Beck can be seen hiding around Peter Parker just before the water element battle. Several of Beck's men can also be seen.
- #098
(At roughly 10 minutes later) Peter's bag has the letters "BFP" on it. This refers to Peter Parker's Uncle Ben, Benjamin Franklin Parker, whose death drove him to use his powers responsibly.
- #099
(At roughly 6 minutes later) Backstage at the charity fundraiser, a wrestling poster featuring Crusher Hogan can be seen. Crusher Hogan was the wrestler masked Peter Parker entered the ring against in Spider-Man's first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15. The first film also had a wrestling scene in which Spider-Man fought Bonesaw in a cage match.
- #100
(At roughly the 21st minute) One of Tom Holland's favorite action scenes takes place during the Water Elemental's attack in Venice. Peter runs toward a series of poles where some boats are docked. Holland regretted not following the stunt coordinator's advice to wear shin guards.
- #101
(At roughly 1 hour 16 minutes) The license plate of the car used by Fury and Maria Hill is MTU83779, which refers to issue 83 of Marvel Team Up, dated July 1979, titled "Spider-Man and Nick Fury."
- #102
The first word of dialogue indicates that Fury and Hill are Skrulls. As also stated in Captain Marvel (2019), everyone calls him "Fury," and this is a slip that reveals Talos's true identity when he greets Fury in the elevator as "Nick." The first word spoken in this film is Hill addressing Fury as "Nick."
- #103
Jeffrey Henderson's storyboards revealed that Spider-Man 4, which was cancelled, had plans for Bruce Campbell to appear as Mysterio, as part of Sam Raimi's "a montage of C and D-list villains that we knew would never be used as main antagonists." Raimi later confirmed these plans: "I miss the really great cameo we designed for Bruce Campbell. [Mysterio] was one of the possibilities. We had other things in mind too, but that was one of them." Raimi and Campbell have been friends since high school, and Campbell has appeared in nearly all of Raimi's films, including all three Spider-Man films. His appearance as Mysterio was intended to tie together all the previous Spider-Man cameos.
- #104
(At about 1 hour 10 minutes) The suit Beck is revealed to be wearing (the black one-piece bodysuit with all the triangles on it) is the kind of motion-capture suit that actors wear when modelling action for computer-generated characters.
- #105
(At about the 31st minute) When Nick Fury introduces Peter to Quentin Beck, he says that Beck is from Earth, not yours. When talking about Earth, it would have been more appropriate for Fury to say "ours" instead of yours, but this makes sense since the person impersonating Fury is later revealed to be Talos.
- #106
(At about the 33rd minute) In the film, Spider-Man mentions Captain Marvel, meaning this is the first time an MCU character refers to Carol Danvers by that name.
- #107
As is common in MCU films, a clip prominently shown in multiple trailers is completely absent from the finished film. In this case, a scene showing Spider-Man defeating a gang of bad guys in a restaurant before leaving on the school trip to Europe (while wearing the nanotech Iron Spider suit first seen in Avengers: Infinity War (2018)) does not appear in the final version of the film (though it was briefly mentioned in May). This scene is available in the extended cut of the film.
- #108
Both "Spider-Man: Far from Home" and Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) end with the last spoken line of both films: "What the F**k?!" At the end of "Homecoming," Aunt May is speaking, and Peter, played by Spider-Man, says the same line at the end of the mid-credits scene in "Far From Home".
- #109
(At about the 18th minute) Jake Gyllenhaal is almost never seen wearing anything other than his "superhero" suit. In fact, he was suggested to wear something else for some scenes, but according to him, he enjoyed wearing that suit so much that he refused to wear anything else. A sharp eye can spot Gyllenhaal as a character in street clothes watching Peter Parker before Peter buys the Black Dahlia necklace before the Hydro-Man attacks.
- #110
Watch the rooftop conversation between Mysterio and Spider-Man very closely; you will notice that although they sit very close to each other, Mysterio never makes physical contact with Spider-Man, and he has to search slightly to make eye contact with Peter. Because the "Flying Mysterio" we see is only an illusion.
- #111
(At about 1 hour 28 minutes) When Peter opens the hologram screen in the suit machine, several prototype suit designs left over from Tony's work can be seen. One of these costumes is the Iron Spider costume from the Civil War comics, which has a different design from the Iron Spider costume seen in Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and this film. It also includes the Anti-Ock suit featured in the Spider-Man (2018) video game.
- #112
(At about 4 minutes) Near the beginning of the film, while Peter and Ned are discussing Peter's "plans" with MJ in their classroom, on the bulletin board behind Peter there is a fairly large collage of Iron Man pictures; behind Ned, on the board (and seemingly opposite the Iron Man collage) there are a number of surrealist prints visible; the most prominent of these is René Magritte's "The False Mirror" (1929), which foreshadows the film's plot and Mysterio's role as a false reflection of Iron Man. The main part of "The False Mirror" is an iris depicted as a round sphere filled with a cloudy sky, closely resembling Mysterio's helmet.
- #113
Director Jon Watts was excited to work with Jon Favreau again. Jon Favreau directed Iron Man (2008) and Iron Man 2 (2010) and appeared as Happy Hogan in other films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Watts says: "There's nothing better than directing another director. They know exactly what you're going through, and they never stop being directors."
- #114
Throughout the film, Spider-Man's Spider-Sense is referred to as "Peter Tingle." In addition, there are several comic book references; May Parker surprising Peter by throwing a banana at him (because it doesn't work on people Peter doesn't subconsciously register as a threat), and in the final battle with Mysterio, Peter uses it after briefly closing his eyes to deal with Mysterio's illusions (in the comics, Peter used this ability several times to find his enemy when he couldn't use his eyes, similar to Daredevil's Radar).
- #115
(At around the 31st minute) When Peter meets Beck, Beck explains that Peter is on Earth-616, but that Beck is from Earth-833. Comic book readers may recognize that Earth-616 is the traditional name for the main Marvel universe. Earth-833 refers to the universe where Spider-UK served as a member of the Captain Britain Corps.
- #116
E. D. I. T. H. is voiced by Dawn Michelle King, first assistant editor on "Far From Home" and Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).
- #117
J. K. Simmons was considered to reprise his role as J. Jonah Jameson from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). Simmons was happy to do it, but the idea was abandoned when he was cast as Commissioner Gordon in Justice League (2017) from Marvel's rival DC Comics. Shortly before the release of Far From Home, Simmons was contacted and accepted. Director Jon Watts acknowledged that Simmons might refuse but never considered another actor: "It's gotta be him. Like, if it wasn't him, it wasn't worth doing." Simmons later called Raimi and got the director's approval to return to his role in the new film. Raimi later signed on to direct Marvel's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). However, this is not his first time reprising the role since Spider-Man 3 (2007). He also reprised his character (through voice acting) in a number of animated television programs in the 2010s. In addition to reprising his role in Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2023).
- #118
The Dutch village where Peter wakes up is called 'Broek op Langedijk', which in old Dutch means a low-lying piece of land located beside a long set in a swamp-like area. It is a real town known for its historic architecture in the Netherlands. However, the marketplace and tulip field scenes in the film were all shot in the Czech Republic during the Prague shoot (all the actors with speaking lines are Dutch. The topless one is famous Dutch comedian Jeroen van Koningsbrugge). Although it doesn't feature much in the film, Broek's tourism board was pleased with the reference because they noticed increased interest from American tourists after the film's premiere and even considered creating a Spider-Man-themed attraction. Lesser-known fact: the origins of what is called a "Dutch/reverse auction" date back to this village. It was practiced at the agricultural auction house "Broeker Veiling".
- #119
(At around 1 hour 29 minutes) The song Happy plays while Peter designs his new suit is AC/DC's "Back In Black," the same song played during the opening of Iron Man (2008). Comically, Peter mistakes the band for Led Zeppelin, whose "Immigrant Song" featured prominently in Thor: Ragnarok (2017).
- #120
(At around 1 hour 50 minutes) When Peter Parker and his classmates are picked up from the airport, it appears to be Newark Airport in the US state of New Jersey, with the New York skyline in the background. In fact, this scene was shot at Stansted Airport in Stansted, Essex, United Kingdom. To make it look American, the entrance side was reversed so that vehicles would appear to be driving on the right rather than the left, and the appearances of UK buses were also altered.
- #121
It was reported that Tom Holland wanted Jason Momoa to play the role of Kraven the Hunter in the film.
- #122
Mysterio's "fishbowl" helmet was inspired by illustrations in classic Spider-Man comics. Costume designers took Iron Man, Vision, Doctor Strange and Thor into account when creating the look of his costume.
- #123
(At around 1 hour 18 minutes) During Mysterio's hallucinatory interrogation of Spider-Man, he turns the full moon into his iconic "fishbowl" helmet; this is a visual nod to a similar scene seen in Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994).
- #124
(At around 1 hour 50 minutes) At the end of the film, while Spider-Man is roaming the city to meet MJ, he takes out his phone and takes a selfie. The pose he strikes is the same as the pose Spider-Man strikes while taking a selfie in the PS4 game Spider-Man (2018).
- #125
(Around 1 hour 55 minutes) As Peter and MJ swing together in New York for the first time as the film closes, they pass a sign that reads: "We are so excited… to show you… what comes next." This sentence appears above "1…2…3…?", a possible indication of the end of Phase 3 and the beginning of Phase 4 in the MCU.
- #126
Acid green has long been used in popular culture to signify evil, probably because of its 19th-century origin as a fabric dye derived from arsenic. As a dye it seeped into the human body through contact and eventually poisoned those close to it (even when used as wallpaper). The color therefore carries a deadly association, sustained in the film industry by its prominent use by malicious characters. Mysterio's 'powers' are this particular shade of green, and it is likewise a harbinger of the "friend who's really the villain" plot.
- #127
In the US trailer, vital information is missing from Peter's passport: His birthday is August 10, and the issue and expiry dates are July 19 and July 18 respectively, but the years of all these dates are missing. If you look more closely at these dates, it appears those years were deliberately blurred by CGI artists. This is most likely because in Avengers: Endgame (2019) Thanos's snap was not reversed until 2023, with everything that happened during the snap (in 2018) being restored at that point, so that everyone who was "blipped" is five years behind everyone who was not. In this case, the years on Peter's passport were blurred to avoid this major spoiler. Neither the passport nor the scene in which Peter asks for his passport appears in the final cut of this film.
- #128
Director Jon Watts wanted the glasses on the black Spider-Man suit to be the exact opposite of the glasses Iron Man would wear. They were also inspired by the popular folding glasses style of the 1980s.
- #129
There are several subtle hints throughout the film that Fury and Hill are actually Talos and Soren. *Hill calls Fury "Nick" in the first scene. Captain Marvel (2019) made it clear that no one has Nick Fury's first name. *Fury tells Peter that Beck is from Earth "not just yours" rather than "not ours." *Fury seems unusually willing to accept the fact that Beck is from another Earth at face value. There are two reasons for this: First, Talos is not a lifelong espionage chief like Fury and therefore is not very good at detecting something fake on sight. Second, Talos was not particularly surprised to see someone not from this Earth because he is one too. *When Peter says he cannot take on the task of being an Avenger without Tony, Fury replies: "Bitch, please! You've been to space!" No wonder "Fury" is so aware of threats from space. *Fury speaks respectfully of Captain Marvel and tells Peter "not to say her name," as if Peter has not earned the right to mention her. Nick may have great respect for Carol, but he does not have that high a regard. *Although he has always been a cold person, Fury knows the difference between kicking someone's ass to make them work and breaking someone, which makes the fact that Fury gets angry at Parker raise a few flags. Tony had done far worse than endangering his friends, but Fury only expressed disappointment and put him back to work. It makes sense that Fury loses his cool with Peter because he was actually Talos posing as Fury, meaning he was acting the way he thought Fury would act and missed the mark. *While Fury angrily says something to Hill about Kree sleeper cells, his conversation is interrupted by the impending London attack. It is unlikely that Fury would concern himself with Kree sleeper cells because such a cell is very unlikely to be found on Earth. *Fury being fooled so easily by Beck is the biggest hint that he is not really him. As Beck also points out, Fury is the most paranoid person on the planet. Although Beck is well aware of Fury's paranoid nature and does everything he can to fool him, puts together a flawless backstory, and has the whole team support him to make sure his charade holds up, the fact that Fury never once doubted Beck's story and probably never even tried to investigate his past (however futile it might seem) is very unlike Fury, who would also have become more distrustful and paranoid toward the unknown. Factors after The Winter Soldier. However, Talos is familiar with the cosmic world because he is an alien, so he would accept Beck's cover story far more readily than the real Fury.
- #130
There are several references to the MCU series Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. (2013): when Fury/Talos mentions the Kree sleeper cells, and in the post-credits scene, the real Nick Fury is seen relaxing in front of a fake white beach, a reference to Phil Coulson's vision while joining T. A. H. I. T. I. Process.
- #131
(At about 1 hour 50 minutes) Near the end of the film there is a license plate that encodes Spider-Man's past. The plate reads "AMF 1562," suggesting the comic book title "Amazing Fantasy," specifically Amazing Fantasy #15 from August 1962, which featured Spider-Man's first appearance.
- #132
Director Jon Watts described the film as a "con man movie" with "so many layers of deception" and felt that ending the film with "one last twist" in the post-credits scenes was on the same level as the film.
- #133
(At about 1 hour 45 minutes) While in the crown jewels vault, Ned corrects Happy when Happy mistakenly refers to the halberd Ned is holding as a spear. Ned's avatar in the game Beast Slayer uses a halberd while on the plane to Europe.
- #134
(At about 1 hour 45 minutes) In the final battle, Peter makes himself a hammer-like weapon from the wreckage of Tower Bridge and the cars on it. He then finds a large metal sign to use as a shield. When he starts running, it looks very similar to Captain America running with his shield and Thor's hammer Mjölnir during the final battle of Avengers: Endgame (2019).
- #135
When the Elementals appear, there are several nods to Spider-Man's comic book history. During the Water Elemental's attack, a boat sign reads "ASM212." The water villain Hydro-Man (Morris Bench) first appeared in "Amazing Spider-Man #212" (January 1981). A car carries a plate reading "463" during the Earth Elemental's attack. The Earth villain Sandman (Flint Marko) first appeared in "Amazing Spider-Man #4" in September 1963. During the Fire Elemental's attack, a car's plate read "2865 SEP." The fire villain Molten Man (Mark Raxton) first appeared in "Amazing Spider-Man #28" in September 1965. During the final Elemental's attack (which combines all the elements into a single "Voltron" Elemental), a car carries a plate reading "TASM 143." The air villain Cyclone (André Gerard) first appeared in "Amazing Spider-Man #143" in April 1975.
- #136
Most of the cast received revised scripts containing only their own character's scenes, in order to prevent internet leaks.
- #137
(At about 1 hour 29 minutes) While Peter is designing his new suit, he puts his arm inside a hologram to see how it looks. In the first Iron Man film, Tony Stark does the same thing while building the Mark 2 armor.
- #138
Jake Gyllenhaal admitted that this film radically changed his perception of filmmaking. Before this, he approached every film with great intensity, but he enjoyed this experience so much that it helped teach him how to be more relaxed on set.
- #139
J. B. Smoove's role was significantly expanded after the production team saw a commercial he had made for Audi with Tom Holland. The chemistry between the two was strong enough to require the script to be rewritten.
- #140
The acronym E. D. I. T. H. stands for "Even Dead, I'm The Hero." Thanks to the manipulated footage on it, Beck manages to portray himself as a hero after his death; J. Jonah Jameson even refers to him that way, while also blaming Peter for both his actions and the murder.
- #141
Quentin Beck says the fire elemental can absorb surrounding metal through contact, but he never explains why it would be able to do this, or why something that is supposedly the embodiment of the natural order would care about the refined world. The answer is that it isn't; Beck needed something that would make him seem capable of becoming a greater threat while threatening to target an omnipresent substance. Fury and Hill exchange disbelieving looks but do not openly question it.
- #142
Jake Gyllenhaal joked that when he wore Mysterio's armor, he sometimes felt like a T-Rex. The forearm pieces known as vambraces restricted Gyllenhaal's arm movements.
- #143
The creative team approached the film as a road trip story, and therefore used a different lighting scheme and color palette at each stop on the school trip to preserve the atmosphere of each country.
- #144
Although it is not stated outright, the fact that MJ (Zendaya), Ned (Jacob Batalon) and Betty Brant (Angourie Rice) still appear to be the same age as Peter (Tom Holland) (and that Brad (Remy Hii) says he is now five years older) confirms that they too were victims of Thanos's "snap" in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and were brought back in Avengers: Endgame (2019). Mr. Harrington (Martin Starr), on the other hand, implies that he survived when he explains that he held a funeral for his wife and believed she had disappeared (she was only pretending to have done so in order to run off with someone else). Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau) is also retroactively revealed to have survived, since he says he grew his beard after the Blip.
- #145
Before Mysterio dies, he tells Peter that people will believe anything, as evidenced by the countless citizens taken in by his illusions. In the end, Beck successfully convinces everyone that Spider-Man is the culprit behind the attack.
- #146
(At about 1 hour 55 minutes) Toward the end of the film there is a banner with stages on it, "1…2…3…?" This is near the original site of Stark Tower, the supposed new location of the Baxter Building, home of the Fantastic Four.
- #147
(At about 1 hour 45 minutes) In the thrilling battle scene on Tower Bridge, as Spider-Man creates his improvised weapons (resembling Thor's Mjolnir and Captain America's shield), the musical score plays a small melodic hint of the Avengers theme heard throughout the MCU.
- #148
(At about 4 minutes) Peter says that MJ's favorite flower is the black dahlia "because of the murder." He is referring to the murder of Elizabeth Short, one of Los Angeles's most famous unsolved crimes of 1947.
- #149
Cobie Smulders did not know until a week before the premiere that she was not playing the real Maria Hill.
- #150
Numan Acar plays a silent agent named Dmitri who works for Nick Fury and appears skilled at blending in by taking on different roles (such as using the school group's tour bus) to keep an eye on Peter Parker. Dmitri is also the name of the villainous Spider-Man foe known as the Chameleon (Dmitri Smerdyakov), who is likewise known for his ability to adapt to different identities. Despite the similarities, it has not yet been confirmed whether Acar's character will be the MCU version of the villain.
- #151
(At about 35 minutes) As the class travels over the Alps toward Prague, a 1973 song called "Slnko" (meaning "Sun") can be heard. The song is not Czech, as is often assumed, but Slovak. The inclusion of Slovak music in a film of this scale is unprecedented, and the singer Marcela Laiferová said she was surprised that her song was used. She also stated that, if she had the opportunity, she would recommend one of her other songs with more of a story.
- #152
Mysterio's illusion sequence contains 150 VFX shots and was based on the dream films A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and Paprika (2006), the surreal animated film Duck Amuck (1953) and the "Pink Elephants" hallucination in Dumbo (1941). Janek Sirrs described the sequence as an elaborate Broadway production with an unlimited budget.
- #153
(About 2 hours 5 minutes) The space station overseen by Fury may be the Alpha Flight Station, which had only recently been introduced in Captain Marvel comics. Alpha Flight was originally a Canadian superhero team, but the name was later applied to a space station commanded by Captain Marvel to serve as the planet's first line of defense.
- #154
Early in the film, a water elemental attacks Venice, destroying buildings and bridges and at one point flooding the famous St. Mark's Square. Coincidentally and tragically, Venice (and St. Mark's Basilica) experienced extreme flooding in the same year the film was released (2019), with water levels reaching their second and third highest since records began in the 1800s.
- #155
(About 1 hour 40 minutes) During the thrilling Tower Bridge battle, Spider-Man defeats several drones in a single move and lands in the notorious Iron Man pose, advancing the film's "Spider-Man is the new Iron Man" thread.
- #156
(About 1 hour 55 minutes) The shirt MJ wears while walking around New York with Spider-Man displays the outfit Zendaya wore to the 2018 Met Gala, where she dressed as Joan of Arc.
- #157
(About 17 minutes) The camera Peter's teacher uses in Italy (the one that falls into the water) appears to be a tribute to the camera Peter Parker used in the 90s cartoon.
- #158
In the film's early sections, most of the characters believe aliens somehow played a role in the emergence of the Elementals and Mysterio. Since the incompetent Skrulls are one of the reasons Mysterio's plan nearly succeeds, the speculation is strangely accurate.
- #159
(About 1 hour 22 minutes) Peter wakes up in the Netherlands in an orange shirt. This is an original football jersey issued by the KNVB (Royal Dutch Football Association) and used by the national football team. Since Peter's cellmates are all wearing fan clothing and colors, it is heavily implied that they attended a football match, got drunk, and were arrested for drunken and disorderly behavior.
- #160
(About 40 minutes in) When Peter tries to take the sunglasses back from Flash on the bus and slaps him unconscious, this is most likely a reference to issue 8 of Spider-Man, in which Peter Parker and Flash Thompson have an after-school boxing match. Because the Living Brain's appearance distracts Flash, Peter accidentally knocks Flash down with a flick of his wrist, but Peter could turn it around and make people think Flash is actually Spider-Man.
- #161
Even when the fire elemental grows large enough to fill an entire Prague square, not a single person is visibly burned, even when Beck flies directly toward it. This is an early hint that although something physically present exists where the fire elemental supposedly is, it does not emit more than a normal amount of heat. Similarly, Beck's costume does not look physically protective and there is no indication he has super durability, yet while fighting the Elementals, even after flying directly at the Fire Elemental, he takes as much, or more, punishment than Spider-Man. Because the Mysterio we see taking damage is only a projection, and the real Beck is never in the danger zone.
- #162
(About 1 hour 26 minutes in) After Happy picks Peter up in the Netherlands, Peter yells at Happy and immediately apologizes to him. This is because the last person Peter yelled at was Uncle Ben, and he was never able to apologize to him.
- #163
While still in his "Night Monkey" guise, Peter Parker tries to ask a random woman for directions, but she freaks out, shouting "Night Monkey!" and runs away in terror. This kind of reaction doesn't make much sense, because if she knows the new "Night Monkey" nickname, that means she has seen the news reports of "Night Monkey" helping Mysterio and saving citizens at the carnival. This is the first hint that Peter has entered Mysterio's hallucination/simulation.
- #164
In the news report at the beginning of the film, photos of all the Avengers who died permanently during the war against Thanos are shown, as seen in both Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Although Captain America did not die (he chose to return to the past of a different timeline), the film makes it clear that he chose to let the public believe he was killed in action in order to explain the absence of the other Avengers and SHIELD.
- #165
(Around 17 minutes) The Midtown High students arrive at the Hotel DeMatteis in Venice. This may be a nod to J. M. DeMatteis, who wrote many of Spider-Man's most famous comic book stories, including "Kraven's Last Hunt."
- #166
When Peter first meets Beck, he gives him the name Mysterio after the Italian news report about him. Beck is taken aback and prefers to be called by his real name. In his next encounter with Peter, just as Nick Fury is about to introduce Beck by his real name, Beck interrupts, insisting on being called Mysterio. This is an indication that he is not as humble as he appears.
- #167
Obviously, shooting a battle scene on the real Tower Bridge in London would have been logistically impossible, so 80% of the real bridge was recreated in a studio and with digital effects.
- #168
Immediately after Peter hands over E. D. I. T. H. Beck, preparing to leave to go ask MJ out, says he has only a 50% chance of succeeding because it's "kinda awkward." This seems odd, since Beck has done nothing but be complementary and encouraging to Peter before, probably to butter him up into handing over E. D. I. T. H. Now that Beck has gotten what he wanted, he begins to drop the courtesy act. Of course, right after Peter leaves, Mysterio is revealed to be Evil All Along.
- #169
Producer Amy Pascal wanted to make sure the characters stayed grounded even while flying to Europe. She says: "It was important to place Peter in new environments, but never at the expense of what makes these characters so special."
- #170
(Around 1 hour 40 minutes) When Happy and the kids are trapped in the vault of the Crown Jewels and believe the drones are going to kill them, they start sharing some secrets. Happy blurts out that Spider-Man is in love with his aunt, which could jeopardize Spider-Man's true identity, since until then only MJ and Ned knew the secret. Betty and Flash are unaware that Spidey and Peter are the same person, so Happy's secret disclosures could lead them to uncover the secret. Of course, this becomes somewhat moot when Mysterio reveals Peter's secret identity to everyone in the post-credits scene after his death.
- #171
(Around 1 hour 19 minutes) During one of the sequences of Mysterio's visions, a gang of Spider-Man copies appears and attacks Peter, a possible reference to when Mysterio used them during the boss fight in the original Spider-Man 2 (2004) game.
- #172
In Iron Man 3, Tony Stark makes jokes to the bespectacled Peter Billingsley, who plays former Stark Industries employee William Ginter Riva, the actor who played Ralphie in the 1980s film Stark references: "I loved you in A Christmas Story." Billingsley was also one of the producers of Iron Man.
- #173
(Around the 30th minute) Nick Fury quotes Peter Parker in Venice: "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown…" A fitting quote for the moment, from William Shakespeare's "Henry IV", Part II, Act III, Scene 1.
- #174
The producer decided to remove the "Dun dun dunnnnnnnn" from the sound recording after every revelation Mysterio makes in his toast after taking the Edith glasses.
- #175
While fighting the fire elemental, Peter's web-shooters are at one point blocked by something he cannot see. This is a major sign that more is going on. MJ picks up the web and the piece of metal it caught, and she and Peter discover that the device is part of an advanced drone with hologram projectors.
- #176
Mysterio was designed to be a combination of different Avengers: * his costume is modeled on the armor of Iron Man and Thor * Beck claims to be a military superhero like Captain America * his use of manipulation and deception (and use of drones) is inspired by Black Widow.
- #177
(Around the 57th minute) As Peter and Mysterio drink and talk in the bar, The Jam's "A Town Called Malice" plays in the background. This song features in a key scene in Billy Elliot (2000). Tom Holland played Billy Elliot in the West End stage musical version.
- #178
When Happy delivers his "coded message" to Fury (who is actually Talos), he suggests that Fury is a surfer. The first disguise Talos adopted when he arrived on Earth with Captain Marvel was a surfer.
- #179
J. K. Simmons filmed the role of J. Jonah Jameson only a few days after Marvel's manager first contacted him. For this reason, there was not enough time to give Jameson the distinctive flat-top haircut he has in the comics and Sam Raimi's films.
- #180
(Around 1 hour 55 minutes) When Peter lands after swinging to meet MJ for their date, they are near the library where Jake Gyllenhaal waits for his father in The Day After Tomorrow (2004).
- #181
The fact that Nick Fury, who meets Spider-Man in Berlin, is actually Quentin Beck, is foreshadowed by his reaction when the illusion of the fake Europol headquarters begins to fade and he acts completely shocked, even though he was the one who drove the car there. He should have known in advance that he was in the wrong building.
- #182
(Around 12 minutes in) Ned claims Peter is allergic to perfume to get Peter to sit next to MJ on the plane. J. B. Smoove, who plays one of the school chaperones, worked as a perfume designer before becoming an actor.
- #183
In his introduction to Peter, Quentin Beck explains that he is a superhero from another universe where he destroyed the world of the four Elementals and killed his family, and that he wants revenge. The way he delivers his good-guy dialogue foreshadows that Beck is lying about everything.
Behind the Scenes (3)
- #184
About 6 minutes in, the charity fundraiser has a wrestling poster for Crusher Hogan in the background, the wrestler a masked Peter Parker took on in Spider-Man's first appearance, Amazing Fantasy #15. The first film also had a wrestling scene, Spider-Man's cage match with Bonesaw.
- #185
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At about 1 hour 28 minutes, when Peter opens the holographic screen on the suit machine, several prototype suits from Tony's work are visible. One is the Iron Spider suit from the Civil War comics, which looks different from the Iron Spider of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and this film; another is the Anti-Ock suit from the Spider-Man (2018) video game.
- #186
The Dutch village where Peter wakes up is 'Broek op Langedijk,' old Dutch for a low-lying piece of land beside a long dike in a marshy area; it's a real town known for its historic architecture. All the marketplace and tulip field scenes, though, were shot in the Czech Republic during the Prague shoot (the actors with lines are all Dutch, and the shirtless man is the famous Dutch comedian Jeroen van Koningsbrugge). Though the village barely appears, Broek's tourism board was delighted with the mention, saw more interest from American tourists after the premiere and even considered a Spider-Man-themed attraction. A lesser-known fact: the "Dutch/reverse auction" was born in this village, at the agricultural auction house "Broeker Veiling."
Characters & Cast (2)
- #187
Contains a major spoiler — show
J. K. Simmons was considered to reprise J. Jonah Jameson from Sam Raimi's trilogy in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). Simmons was happy to, but the idea was dropped when he was cast as Commissioner Gordon in Justice League (2017), from Marvel's rival DC Comics. He was approached again shortly before Far From Home's release and said yes. Director Jon Watts admitted Simmons might have refused, but never considered anyone else: "It's gotta be him. Like, if it wasn't him, it wasn't worth doing." Simmons called Raimi and got his blessing to return to the role; Raimi himself later signed on to direct Marvel's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). It wasn't his first time back in the role since Spider-Man 3 (2007): he had voiced Jameson in several animated series in the 2010s, and did so again in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).
- #188
After Tobey Maguire aggravated his back problems filming the horse-riding scenes in Seabiscuit (2003), Jake Gyllenhaal nearly replaced him as Spider-Man in Spider-Man 2 (2004); Gyllenhaal was dropped once Maguire agreed to medical tests before filming and was shown to be fit enough to return. Gyllenhaal felt the role had moved on: "The reality is that, in the end, [Maguire] is Spider-Man. There are plenty of roles in my career where I came up against another actor, or something happened, it probably could have happened but didn't, but maybe it would have. In the end, my belief is this: when an actor plays a character, especially in a film, the character is theirs and that's that. But yes, it was discussed. He hurt himself, and there were a lot of actors (probably ready for this role), and I was one of them."
Easter Eggs & References (9)
- #189
About 10 minutes in, Peter's bag bears the initials "BFP," for Uncle Ben, Benjamin Franklin Parker, whose death taught him to use his powers responsibly.
- #190
At about 1 hour 16 minutes, the plate on Fury and Maria Hill's car is MTU83779, a reference to Marvel Team Up #83, dated July 1979, titled "Spider-Man and Nick Fury."
- #191
At about 1 hour 50 minutes, when Peter and his classmates are picked up at the airport, it looks like Newark Airport in New Jersey with the New York skyline behind. It was actually shot at Stansted Airport in Essex, England; to make it look American, the entrance was flipped so cars seem to drive on the right, and the British buses were disguised.
- #192
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At about 1 hour 18 minutes, in Mysterio's nightmarish interrogation of Spider-Man, he turns the full moon into his iconic "fishbowl" helmet, a visual nod to a similar scene in Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994).
- #193
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There are a couple of nods to the MCU series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013): Fury/Talos mentioning Kree sleeper cells, and the post-credits scene of the real Nick Fury relaxing in front of a fake white beach, echoing Phil Coulson's vision while joining T.A.H.I.T.I.
- #194
At about 40 minutes, when Peter tries to grab his sunglasses back from Flash on the bus and accidentally knocks him out with a slap, it's most likely a nod to Spider-Man issue 8, in which Peter and Flash Thompson have an after-school boxing match: distracted by the Living Brain's appearance, Peter accidentally floors Flash with a flick of the wrist, though he could have turned it around and made people think Flash was really Spider-Man.
- #195
In Iron Man 3, Tony Stark tells a bespectacled Peter Billingsley, playing former Stark Industries employee William Ginter Riva, "I loved you in A Christmas Story." Billingsley really did play Ralphie in that 1980s film, and was one of Iron Man's producers.
- #196
At around the 57-minute mark, while Peter and Mysterio talk over drinks in the bar, The Jam's "A Town Called Malice" plays; it's also the song behind a key scene in Billy Elliot (2000), and Tom Holland once played Billy Elliot in the West End musical.
- #197
In the fire monster battle in Prague, Hill and Fury's car has the plate ASM28965, a reference to The Amazing Spider-Man #28, published in September 1965, which introduced the Molten Man.
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- #198
Contains a major spoiler — show
Acid green has long signaled evil in popular culture, probably because of its 19th-century origins as a fabric dye made with arsenic: it seeped into the body through contact and eventually poisoned people around it, even as wallpaper. That deadly association has lived on in film through its heavy use for villains, and Mysterio's "powers" are exactly that shade of green, another hint at the "friend who's really the villain" twist.
- #199
The creative team treated the film as a road trip, giving each stop on the school trip its own lighting scheme and color palette to capture the feel of each country.
- #200
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It's never said outright, but MJ (Zendaya), Ned (Jacob Batalon) and Betty Brant (Angourie Rice) still being Peter's (Tom Holland) age, while Brad (Remy Hii) says he's now 5 years older, confirms they too were victims of Thanos's "snap" in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and came back in Avengers: Endgame (2019). Mr. Harrington (Martin Starr), on the other hand, implies he survived when he says he held a funeral for his wife thinking she'd vanished (she'd faked it to run off with someone else), and Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau) turns out to have survived too, since he says he grew his beard after the Blip.
- #201
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(At about 1 hour 45 minutes) In the thrilling Tower Bridge battle, as Spider-Man improvises his weapons (resembling Thor's Mjolnir and Captain America's shield), the score slips in a small hint of the Avengers theme heard across the MCU.
- #202
At about 1 hour 22 minutes, Peter wakes up in the Netherlands in an orange shirt, an official KNVB (Royal Dutch Football Association) jersey worn by the national team. Since his cellmates are all in fan gear and colors, the strong implication is that they went to a match, got drunk and were arrested for drunk and disorderly behavior.
- #203
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A running theme in MCU films is a mentor or parent figure who turns out to be a real villain or morally compromised: Obadiah Stane in Iron Man (2008), Alexander Pierce in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), The Ancient One in Doctor Strange (2016), T'Chaka in Black Panther (2018), Odin in Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and Yon-Rogg (and possibly the Supreme Intelligence) in Captain Marvel (2019). Here not only is Quentin Beck revealed as evil, but Tony Stark is also shown to have questionable morals.
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