Morbius: Does Spider-Man Exist In This Universe? | Den Of Geek

The mini-monologue is a chance for closure to those who wanted to know what happened after the events of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 where Emma Stone’s magnetic Gwen Stacy died. But it also revealed that Garfield’s Peter went down a different road from the Maguire and Holland variations. He went to a dark place.

Dark enough, perhaps, to lead folks to graffiti “murderer” on posters of the Web-Head hanging in alleyways? It would seem No Way Home and even Morbius’ trailer lay the groundwork for a less beloved Spidey who is viewed as more menace than hero by the people of New York City.

Why It Still May Not Be Garfield

With all that said, the scene with the poster is still technically deleted from the finished film. And there is one other small obstacle in making Garifeld the Spider-Man of this universe a reality: Would Garfield want to play the role again?

In January, Garfield said he was “definitely open” to another Spider-Man movie. Yet by the end of February, he told Variety he had “no plans, and that’s the truth.” Admittedly, he could be stonewalling the press, just as he denied for months that he would be appearing in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

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But we have to wonder whether Garfield really would be up for signing on to another go-round as Spidey, especially in the hands of the producers of movies like Venom and Morbius. The actor just received his second Oscar nomination, this time for tick, tick… BOOM!, and has seemed to enjoy a career away from the artistically unsatisfying Amazing Spider-Man flicks, working with the likes of Martin Scorsese and on Hacksaw Ridge in the ensuing decade. He even won a Tony on Broadway for the revival of Angels in America. So it remains difficult to imagine he’d want to return to the mask under circumstances similar to the ones that turned The Amazing Spider-Man 2 into such a mess with its intention of setting up a shared universe of villain movies.

“I went from being a naive boy to growing up,” Garfield told The Guardian last year about his experience making his two Spidey movies. “How could I ever imagine that it was going to be a pure experience? There are millions of dollars at stake and that’s what guides the ship. It was a big awakening and it hurt.”