While we got to see a younger (and somewhat softer) take on Nick Fury last month in Captain Marvel, the super spy will be back to his all business best this July as he teams up with Tom Holland’s web-slinger in the Sony and Marvel produced Spider-Man: Far From Home.
As you’d expect, the dynamic between the two will be very different to what we saw with Peter and Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, and director Jon Watts has been chatting to USA Today about the relationship that will develop between Fury and the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
“If Tony is like the supportive cool uncle, Fury’s more like the mean new stepdad,” states Watts. “Fury doesn’t see himself in Peter Parker. Fury sees Peter Parker as an asset that he needs who is too preoccupied with a bunch of high school problems.”
“Part of my pitch for the very first movie was bringing Nick Fury in and making him the mean substitute teacher,” he continued. “You get to have this teenage James Bond character. Total world-weary Nick Fury and enthusiastic New York teenager Peter Parker gallivanting across Europe – what’s more fun than that? You put them together and you have some good stuff.”
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Spider-Man: Far From Home will be released on July 2nd and features the return of Tom Holland (Spider-Man), Marisa Tomei (Aunt May), Michael Keaton (The Vulture), Zendaya (Michelle), Jacob Batalon (Ned Leeds), Angourie Rice (Betty Brant), Tony Revolori (Flash Thompson), Martin Star (Mr. Harrington), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury) and Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill), with Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler) as Mysterio and J.B. Smoove (Uncle Drew), Remy Hii (Crazy Rich Asians) and Numan Acar (Homeland) in undisclosed roles.
Originally published April 21, 2019. Updated April 22, 2019.
