Sam Raimi Reacts To Tobey Maguire's Return In Spider-Man: No Way Home

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Sam Raimi, director of the original Spider-Man trilogy, has shared his reaction to Spider-Man: No Way Home, revealing that the experience was "refreshing" for him. Spider-Man: No Way Home is Marvel's latest box office smash hit, currently sitting in sixth place among the highest-grossing movies of all time. After the promotional run saw the film's star, Tom Holland, bombarded with questions and theories as to whether any previous Peter Parkers could be making a cameo within the film, fans were beyond delighted to see Spider-Man alums Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield arrive just in time to help Holland's Parker save the universe from a multiversal collapse.

While Maguire and Garfield's returns may have been the worst kept secret in Marvel history, the reappearance of a number of classic Spidey villains was actually the film's main focus. Early trailers sent the internet into a spin after they confirmed that Alfred Molina's Doc Ock and Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin would return to wreak havoc in a whole new universe. Both Molina's Doc Ock and Dafoe's Goblin originated from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films, which saw Maguire star as the «original» Peter Parker. With the first of Raimi's trilogy having released back in 2002, the films hold a significant amount of nostalgia for audiences, with many feeling as though this original trilogy remains the truest to the comic-book Spider-Man they have come to know and love.

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Now, Raimi has shared his reaction to Spider-Man: No Way Home and revealed how it felt to see the characters that he created back on the big screen once again. Speaking to Variety, the beloved director shared that the film was "so much