Hawkeye Directors Believe The Series Influenced Spider-Man: No Way Home
What started with one superhero film back in 2008 would ultimately expand to what seems like a never-ending universe now known as the MCU. With many films and series in the universe crossing over with one another, it's likely that each project definitely has some influence on the other, or at least that's what Hawkeye directors Bert & Bertie believe with their series and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Hawkeye tells a more grounded story during the holidays, with characters like Clint Barton / Hawkeye and Kate Bishop facing low-level threats. Meanwhile, Spider-Man: No Way Home centers on the multiverse and the return of many otherworldly villains like Alfred Molina's Doc Ock and Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin.
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Directing duo Bert & Bertie spoke on the D23 Inside Disney podcast, where they recalled seeing an early screening of Black Widow in order to get a better understanding of Yelena Belova before her character appeared in Hawkeye during the show's fourth episode. With this, Bert & Bertie believe they influenced No Way Home in some aspects similar to how Black Widow had an influence on Hawkeye. "We got to see Widow, Black Widow, ahead of its release because of the Yelena storyline. I feel like that kind of influenced us more…I feel like I might be speaking out of turn, but I feel like we influenced Spider-Man. You know what I mean? Spider-Man was watching us, we were watching Widow,"the duo shared on the podcast.
They would go on to add, ""I think it was prior to us, because you know, we did hear about things along the way that was going on with the Statue of Liberty, and we didn't know about the Charlie Cox of it all until later. We didn't actually see No Way Home, I
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