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Mysterio could have been a Skrull in Spider-Man: Far From Home

July 17, 2019 by Samuel Brace

The writers of Spider-Man: Far From Home, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, considered making Mysterio a Skrull.

Now that Spider-Man: Far From Home is out in the wild, we know that Mysterio is up to his old tricks as the villain of the film. But the character nearly had a whole new skill set in his arsenal.

Writers of the movie Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers spoke to Collider about how they considered making Mysterio a Skrull, complete with shapeshifting abilities to help the character’s deception. Sommers said:

“There were some early, early versions of this movie where Mysterio was a Skrull… There were a lot of Skrull versions of the story early on. When you’re doing a con artist movie, what we finally landed on—we sat down and talked about how do we keep on fooling the audience, how do we keep on having a lot of fun reveals? How many distractions can we get away with before people want to murder us? [The Mysterio skrull reveal] was an early idea about why he was doing everything he was doing.”

McKenna added: “I don’t think it ever made it to paper, necessarily, but we talked about it for a while. But we talked about a lot of stuff. We spent a lot of time in a windowless room with [director] Jon [Watts], and the folks from Marvel and Pascal Pictures, just talking it through. That’s what it is, in those early stages. It’s just a lot of talk. Going down different roads and just gradually refining things until you have a story.”

SEE ALSO: Spider-Man: Far From Home nears $850 million worldwide

This certainly would have added a whole new dimension to the character, changing the narrative dramatically. Of course, the Skrulls would turn up in the film anyway thanks to its post-credits sequence.

Peter Parker returns in Spider-Man: Far From Home, the next chapter of the Spider-Man: Homecoming series! Our friendly neighborhood Super Hero decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation. However, Peter’s plan to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks are quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of several elemental creature attacks, creating havoc across the continent!

Spider-Man: Far From Home features the return of Tom Holland (Spider-Man), Marisa Tomei (Aunt May), 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.

Filed Under: Movies, News, Samuel Brace Tagged With: jake gyllenhaal, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, spider-man: far from home

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