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Above:
Jake Gyllenhaal
indulges his
manic villain
register as
Quentin Beck,
aka Mysterio.
Below:Peter
Parker isnotthe
new Iron Man.
Bottom:Parker
with Tony Stark,
his mentor-cum-
father figure.Parker can fill his shoes. That
remains to be seen.James Dyer:That Peter is
the recipient of Stark’s
technological estate might jar
for some (giving attack drones
to a teenager? Really?) yet it’s
entirely in keeping with Stark’s
cavalier impulsiveness — he did,
after all, gift Peter a suit with
Instant Kill mode installed as
standard. The bestowal of
E.D.I.T.H. (Even Dead I’m The
Hero) not only represents a
passing of the torch but allows
Stark’s presence to be felt
after his (and Downey Jr’s)
departure. Equally, making
Stark the ultimate cause of
the film’s conflict (both in his
misused tech and his role in
Mysterio’s creation) ensures
thatFar From Homeserves
as a fitting epitaph for the
MCU’s original hero.Jon Watts:I feel like Peter
is [the next Tony Stark], but
I wanted to tell a very paced
out origin story over these
movies, showing him becoming
Spider-Man and how he’s not
going to be Tony Stark Jr. He’s
going to be something new.Chris Hewitt:From the
moment I visited the set and
was told that Mysterio, one
ofSpider-Man’s most iconic
villains, was being remoulded
as a hero, I was sceptical. Here
is a character whose entire
modus operandi is based upon
illusion, deception and, frankly,
lying his arse off. Were we really
meant to believe this version
of the character had dropped
into our world from a different
universe, having undergone a
radical personality makeover?
Of course not. From the off,
I suspected that Quentin Beck’s
talk of multiverses might be BS,
and that he might have more
than a little something to do
with the elemental creatures
terrorising Peter and his friends.
But the Spider-solution here is
pretty darned amazing, with
Watts stealthily positioningFa r
From Homeas a heist movie,
with Beck playing the long con,
and Peter as his unwitting mark.
Also, tying Beck’s motivations
and origins directly into Tony
Stark, and the B.A.R.F. virtual
reality system we first saw in
Captain America: Civil War, is
a beautiful touch. The sort of
thing that only a franchise 23
films deep can pull off.Jon Watts:I didn’t want Beck
to be purely a disgruntled
ex-employee. Tony wasn’t
a saint. I wanted everything
to spring from this idea of loss
and a tragedy. Tony saved theworld, but Tony’s gone. In the
wake of that Peter’s running
away from how he feels about
it, but as with any big tragedy
you can see that people can
be opportunistic. They see a
national tragedy and they see
an opportunity and they seize
on that. I thought that would
be a dark take to explore for
Mysterio, when you see bad
things happening in the world
and you see people figuring
out how to profit off of that
or to gain power as a result.James Dyer:When the big
reveal comes, it’s a perfectly
executed nod to this age of
alternative truths and Deep
Fake technology. As a comment
on the dysfunctional media
landscape we live in, Mysterio
is as powerful an allegory
as Thanos’ (misplaced)
environmental agenda was.Ben Travis:The best thing
about the Mysterio reveal?
It allows Gyllenhaal to fully
indulge his manic villain register.
As engaging an actor as he is,
Mysterio is far less interesting
as a hero than as a self-
aggrandising, arrogant
megalomaniac. Gyllenhaal’s
performance calls to mind the
wild intensity of his turn in Bong
Joon-ho’sOkja, with a touch
of the unstable, shark-eyed
Lou Bloom fromNightcrawler.
That weird energy is a real
treat in a superhero movie.WARNING!
SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!
Jon Watts:“Peter Parker’s
mentor is gone. Obviously,
it was going to cast a huge
shadow over the movie. It
made sense to me that after
everything Peter had been
through, he would be running
away from his emotions. He
hasn’t processed all this insane
shit which has happened to
him, which naturally fed into
the idea of going on vacation.”
Chris Hewitt:Tony Stark is
clearly going to haunt the
MCU for some time, but it
makes sense that the first film
post-Avengers: Endgamewould
focus on Peter Parker. He’s
only been in the MCU for
three years, but has been so
inextricably linked to Tony — his
mentor-cum-father figure —
that he would be among
the hardest hit by his death.
Far From Homeplays with the
notion that Stark’s absence has
created a vacuum, into which
rushes the villainous Mysterio.
But there’s also room for
a successor to Tony Stark in
this world. Tony bequeathing
E.D.I.T.H., his ultra-expensive
defence system/glasses, to
Peter suggests he believes that
❯2 DEALING WITH
TONY’S LEGACY
3 THE TRUTH ABOUT
MYSTERIO
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