"Spider-Man: No Way Home" director had to change the movie due to Reddit

People had already sussed out that Maguire and Garfield would be appearing, and of course Watts and Marvel weren't about to nix that. However, as Watts tells it, the original plan went like this:

We were working on where we wanted to reveal the guys, and it always seemed like Peter’s going to be sad because Aunt May has just died, and that the portals are going to open, and the two Spider-Men are going to step out.

Then, Watts went to Reddit.

I was on Reddit, and I was looking at people who had already made fan art of, "This is probably what it’s going to be like when the two Spider-Men get revealed." It was on a rooftop. It was sad, two Doctor Strange portals were open and two Spider-Men are stepping out. I was like, "Well, we can’t do that. If that’s exactly what everyone thinks we’re going to do, we absolutely can’t do that."

After that, Watts and the screenwriters started to ponder how to come up with an idea nobody was going to expect for the reveals. The director then landed on it: "Probably having the two Spider-Men appear at Ned’s Filipino grandma’s house in Queens. I don’t think anyone was doing fan art of that on Reddit."

Usually, we wouldn't recommend altering film ideas based on Reddit, but this turned out quite alright for Watts and "No Way Home."

(h/t The Hollywood Reporter)