Sandman & Lizard Actors Didn't Return For Spider-Man: No Way Home
Sandman and Lizard actors Thomas Haden Church and Rhys Ifans didn’t film any new material for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Jon Watts’ third and final installment in Marvel Studios/Sony’s Homecoming trilogy released in theaters on December 17, 2021. The record-breaking blockbuster sees Peter Parker (Tom Holland) and Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) accidentally crack open the multiverse, bringing characters from Sony’s past into the MCU.
By capitalizing on Phase 4’s multiverse concept, No Way Home was able to pay homage to Spider-Man cinema of old. In addition to Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s webslingers, the film introduced their respective villains to the MCU, including Doc Ock (Alfred Molina), Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe), Electro (Jamie Foxx), Sandman, and Lizard. However, while fans got to see Doc Ock, Green Goblin, and Electro’s (human) faces Sandman and Lizard mostly just appear in their CGI forms throughout the film. It’s been revealed that Church and Ifans, who first appeared in Spider-Man 3 (2007) and The Amazing Spider-Man (2014), respectively, were never actually on set for No Way Home.
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Popular VFX YouTube channel the Corridor Crew recently talked to Digital Domain VFX Supervisor Kelly Port to break down the No Way Home’s CGI. Port further explained Church and Ifans were never involved with the film’s production and how they used footage from the previous films from their human forms. Read the full quote below:
«We didn't really have access to Rhys Ifans or Thomas Hayden Church, so we actually ended up using footage from the previous films and manipulating it. So, Rhys Ifans, when he's healing, we actually used an outtake and
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