No Way Home Script's Maguire & Garfield Names Reveal A Problem With TASM
Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's official MCU names are listed in the script for Spider-Man: No Way Home, highlighting a problem with The Amazing Spider-Man series. Although it does have its fans, the Marc Webb films are often harshly criticized, especially when compared to the Sam Raimi trilogy. While more are beginning to appreciate The Amazing Spider-Man due to No Way Home, the way in which they are labeled in the film's script shows one of the core problems with the Amazing series.
Spider-Man: No Way Home follows the MCU's Spider-Man as he comes across two multiversal variants of himself, played by Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield. These two characters are actually continuations of their respective Spider-Man franchises. The original Spider-Man trilogy from the 2000s is directed by Sam Raimi, and the Amazing Spider-Man series from the mid-2010s is directed by Marc Webb.
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No Way Home's script is full of surprises, and one neat detail is how the Spider-Man variants are labeled. Maguire and Garfield's characters are referred to as "Raimi-Verse"and "Webb-Verse" Spider-Man and Peter Parker, named after the directors of each series. Fans have referred to Maguire's films as the Raimi-Verse for a while now, but the Webb-Verse label is not commonly used. This can be largely attributed to the fact that Raimi's films feel like a director's vision, while the Webb films just feel like studio cash grabs. Consequently, the use of the Webb-Verse label inadvertently highlights a long-held criticism of the series, especially when compared to Raimi's more cohesive vision.
While both Raimi and Webb have made great films in the past, the former tends to have a much stronger
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