Doctor Strange 2‘s Release Date Shift ChangedSpider-Man: No Way Home‘s Plot

Release dates rarely , if ever , have an encroachment on storytelling . Maybe a movie is set during a specific vacation so a studio apartment need to release it around that metre of twelvemonth . But even then , you’re able to watch out a HalloweenorChristmas movieanytime you desire . One place where handout dates have everything to do with story , though , isthe Marvel Cinematic Universe , and recently , two flick changed entirely due to a shift in date .

Those two movies are Spider - Man : No manner Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness . Whether you ’ve seen No mode Home or not , Strange ’s unexampled trailer intelligibly showswhat the character learns in Spider - Man : No Way Homeimpacts his journeying in his novel moving picture . Like , literally , one picture ca n’t occur without the event of the other . Only , that was n’t originally the caseful .

For a longsighted time , Doctor Strange 2 was hypothecate to come out before Spider - Man : No Way rest home . Originally , Doctor Strange 2 was scheduled for May 2021 and Spider - Man just two months afterward . When both were first propel due to covid , Strange moved to November and Spider - Man to December , which kept the order integral . Eventually though , that budge again and Spider - Man was set tocome before Doctor Strange . Which kiiiiinda posed a trouble considering the secret plan were so elaborately connected .

Juggling release dates.

Juggling release dates.Image: Marvel Studios

“ We were actually working off of things that were happening in Doctor Strange 2 , and attempt to incorporate them into our script , ” No Way Home Colorado - writer Chris McKenna toldVariety . “ When we begin write , [ Strange ] knows at first hand the dangers of screwing with these things . Then we changed it so he was a person who does n’t hump that much about the multiverse . But that makes it even more frightening , to start befool around with these things , because it ’s the fear of the obscure . Either path , he was the voice of reason going , ‘ You do n’t mess with the fortune of an individual’—and Peter Parker being naive enough to go , ‘ Why not ? Why ca n’t we save these people ? ’ ”

And so they flip it and the relief is history . Spider - Man : No Way Home is one of the biggest hits in recent Hollywood memory and has become an even better lead - in to the Strange continuation . Still , you have to marvel how No Way Home would have been unlike if Strange had already had a multiverse adventure beforehand . Would he have even made the same mistake ? Could he have figured out a better answer ? Either mode , we ’ll never know , but it ’s certainly fun to consider about how a bare move on the calendar vary two entire movies .

Spider - Man : No Way Home is now in theater . Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will be out May 6 , 2022 .

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