Tobey Maguire & Willem Dafoe Break Marvel World Record With No Way Home
Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe have set a new Guinness World Record after appearing in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Maguire is best known for portraying the Marvel superhero on the big screen in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy between 2002 and 2007. In the first installment, Dafoe played Norman Osborn, a wealthy industrialist who becomes the terrifying Green Goblin and goes after Peter Parker. Spider-Man was a smashing hit at the box office when it was released in 2002. It was the first film to reach $100 million in a single weekend and went on to gross over $820 million worldwide.
Two decades after making the original film, Maguire and Dafoe stepped into their iconic characters again in the Spider-Man: No Way Home, which officially linked all Spider-Man franchises to the MCU. Aside from its current cast led by Tom Holland, No Way Home also saw the return ofThe Amazing Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield, as well as a string of famous villains including Jamie Foxx's Electro and Alfred Molina's Doctor Octopus. Benedict Cumberbatch rounds out the star-studded No Way Home ensemble as Doctor Strange.
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Maguire and Dafoe set their own Guinness World Records title with their appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home. The two stars broke the record for the actor with the longest career as a live-action Marvel character. Their official time is 19 years and 225 days. The previous title was held by Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, who played Wolverine and Professor X respectively, first in X-Men in 2000 and then Logan in2017.
Without a doubt, the success of the Maguire and Dafoe's original Spider-Man film is what spawned the multiverse of superheroes viewers are enjoying
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