SPIDER-MAN
FAR FROM HOME

A SEQUEL TO HOMECOMING

HOW FAR FROM HOME CAME TOGETHER

Sony and Marvel Studios were committed to further Spider-Man films, Jon Watts was confirmed to return in December 2017, and Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers were confirmed as writers in May 2018. Sony slated the sequel for 5 July 2019, a date that complicated Marvel’s secrecy plans around Endgame; the US date later moved up to 2 July.

Watts said the film began from three building blocks: the fallout from Endgame, a European road trip and Mysterio.

ENGLAND, EUROPE AND NEW JERSEY

HOW THE FILM WAS SHOT

Principal photography began on 2 July 2018 in Hertfordshire, England, under the working title Fall of George, then moved to Prague, Liberec and Venice before New York City and Newark, New Jersey. Filming wrapped on 16 October 2018. The budget was $160 million, Michael Giacchino composed the score, and Jake Gyllenhaal’s casting as Mysterio was confirmed around June 2018.

Watts described the world the film enters as one with a power vacuum, which shapes Mysterio’s role:

“people looking for the next Iron Man.”

Jon Watts

A CLASS TRIP AND A NEW ALLY

WHO IS IN THE CAST

Tom Holland plays Peter Parker, with Zendaya as MJ, Jake Gyllenhaal as Quentin Beck, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill, Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan, Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds and Marisa Tomei as May Parker. The film has two credits scenes, one featuring J. K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson and one that revisits characters from Captain Marvel.

A RECORD HOLIDAY OPENING

HOW THE FILM OPENED AND WHAT IT EARNED

The film premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre on 26 June 2019 and opened in China and Japan on 28 June before reaching the US on 2 July. Its US opening weekend came to $92,579,212, and it earned about $185 million over its first six days across 4,634 US theatres, with the largest Tuesday opening day ever and the largest six-day opening for a Tuesday debut.

It went on to earn $1.133 billion worldwide, of which $391.3 million came from the US. It was the first Spider-Man film to gross more than $1 billion, and it passed Skyfall on 18 August 2019 to become Sony’s highest-grossing film.

THE REWATCH

A 91% CRITICS SCORE AND THE END OF PHASE THREE

Rotten Tomatoes lists a 91% critics’ score from 454 reviews and a 95% audience score, and its consensus calls the film “a breezily unpredictable blend of teen romance and superhero action.” Metacritic gives it 69 from 55 critics. It was the final film of Phase Three and the conclusion of the Infinity Saga.

In the Marvel Marathon it sits in the MCU release order guide between Avengers: Endgame and Peter’s To-Do List, and in the MCU movies in order guide between Avengers: Endgame and Black Widow. It follows X-Men: Dark Phoenix and precedes The New Mutants in the Marvel movies in release order guide, and sits between Avengers: Endgame and Peter’s To-Do List in the Spider-Man movies in order guide. In the MCU timeline guide it comes between The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Eternals.