The Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer brings the Marvel multiverse to life

After a low-quality leak was fanatically shared around by webheads last night, the first official trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home is here. The third (and final?) film in the current Spider-Man trilogy is once again directed by Jon Watts and stars Tom Holland as Spider-Man/Peter Parker and Zendaya as MJ, but that’s where the similarities end.

From the looks of the trailer (not to mention the months of official and unofficial rumors), Spider-Man: No Way Home will be the most complex and wide-ranging Spider-Man film to date. The new film follows Peter Parker’s public outing as Spider-Man in the final moments of 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home. Desperate to reverse his situation, Spider-Man seeks out Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to help sort things right, a move that seemingly unites a number of Spider-folks and villains from the previous films all under one Spider-Men-pointing-at-each-other banner.

Here is the official synopsis:

For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a Super Hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

That doesn’t reveal too much, but even a cursory look online will reveal a number of “surprise” cast stars that point to a multiverse of team-up possibilities that were first seen in the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse film back in 2018.

Spider-Man: No Way Home swings into theaters on December 17, 2021.