No Way Home VFX Team Comments On Lizard Punch Mistake In Trailer
Spider-Man: No Way Home's visual effects team has commented on the trailer's lizard punch mistake. The third solo movie for Tom Holland's Spider-Man set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe debuted in theaters on December 17 and has set innumerable box records not only for the pandemic era, but all time. This success can largely be attributed to the film's inclusion of multiple legacy villains and the return of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's Spider-Men. No Way Home's latest milestone was surpassing Jurassic World and The Lion King to become the sixth-highest grossing movie in history.
Throughout No Way Home's marketing campaign, Marvel and Sony went to great lengths to keep the past Spider-Man actors' return a secret, which saw Garfield flat out denying his involvement during his back-to-back press tours for The Eyes of Tammy Faye and tick, tick...BOOM! Since the studios were silent on the topic, fans carefully mined No Way Home's trailers for any evidence of their return, honing in on one specific moment from a Brazilian television spot in which Lizard is hit by an invisible punch, an apparent editing mistake that led many to suspect either Maguire or Garfield's Spider-Man were digitally removed from the shot. When the movie finally premiered in theaters, these exact suspicions were realized.
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In a new interview with the online VFX magazine Before and Afters, No Way Home's visual effects supervisor Chris Waegner commented on the trailer's infamous editing mistake. Waegner did not seem ready to take any blame for the alleged error, as he says their job is to supply whatever works in progress the marketing team requests for trailers and TV spots,
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