50 Fun Facts About Spider-Man: Far From Home

Who directed Spider-Man: Far From Home?

He returned from Homecoming and stayed for No Way Home, completing a trilogy.

Far From Home closed which numbered stretch of the MCU?

Feige confirmed at a Shanghai event that it closed Phase Three and the Infinity Saga rather than opening Phase Four.

Where do Nick Fury and Maria Hill first encounter an Elemental in the opening scene?

Quentin Beck arrives to 'defeat' the Earth Elemental, and Fury and Hill recruit him on the spot.

Why has Midtown School restarted its academic year?

Ned, MJ and Flash all turned to dust with Peter; other classmates did not and are now five years older.

Which Italian city is attacked by the Water Elemental?

A canal-city set was built on a Leavesden backlot in England, and the real city hosted filming in September 2018.

What does Fury give Peter that belonged to Tony Stark?

They give access to E.D.I.T.H., an AI with the run of Stark Industries' databases and an orbital arsenal of drones.

What is the name of the AI in the glasses?

It stands for 'Even Dead, I'm The Hero'; assistant editor Dawn Michelle King voices it.

Where does Beck claim to come from?

An early draft actually made him a Skrull in disguise before the writers settled on the illusion-tech con.

Which city does the Fire Elemental attack after Fury reroutes the school trip?

Filming took place in Prague and Liberec, and the cinematographer used the city's real architectural lighting.

What was Quentin Beck's job before he was fired by Stark?

He and other ex-Stark employees, including a scientist from the first Iron Man, fake the Elementals with projectors.

What does MJ pick up during the Fire Elemental fight that exposes Beck?

By then she has already told Peter she knows he is Spider-Man.

What hits Peter at the end of Mysterio's illusion sequence in Berlin?

He wakes up in the Netherlands, calls Happy from a jail cell and gets flown to London.

Where does the final battle with the merged Elementals take place?

Sony Pictures Imageworks had to build about 80% of the bridge digitally for the 300-shot sequence.

How does Beck die?

Before dying he tells Riva to retrieve the drone footage, which sets up the mid-credits scene.

What does the mid-credits scene reveal to the world?

Doctored footage also frames Spider-Man for the drone attack and Beck's death.

Who plays J. Jonah Jameson in the mid-credits scene?

It was the first time an actor had reprised a non-MCU role in an MCU film; Simmons called Sam Raimi for his blessing.

What does the post-credits scene reveal about Fury and Hill?

The real Fury is in space commanding Skrulls; Cobie Smulders only learned of the twist from Feige shortly before release.

Who plays Quentin Beck / Mysterio?

He was drawn to the idea of a man 'manipulating everyone's love of superheroes'.

Watts described Mysterio's relationship to Peter as what, in contrast to Stark's mentor role?

Fury, by contrast, was 'the mean new stepdad' who sees Peter as an asset distracted by high-school problems.

Which four Spider-Man comic villains were the Elementals modelled on?

Only Hydro-Man's civilian name, Morris Bench, is spoken aloud; Swarm was discussed as a possible fifth.

Who plays Julius Dell, the teacher whose role was written for him after an Audi commercial?

The writers enjoyed his chemistry with Holland in the short film made to promote Homecoming.

Which Iron Man (2008) character returns as one of Beck's accomplices?

Peter Billingsley, the child star of A Christmas Story, reprises the humiliated Stark scientist.

Which actor, playing one of Peter's new classmates, is the MCU's first openly transgender performer?

Remy Hii's Brad Davis, meanwhile, is Peter's rival for MJ, having grown five years while Peter was dust.

Which song plays over the Marvel logo during the opening 'in memoriam' tribute?

Whitney Houston soundtracks the school-news tribute to Stark, Rogers, Romanoff and Vision; the end credits use the Go-Go's 'Vacation'.

What was the working title during the English portion of the shoot?

Homecoming had been Summer of George; the New York leg used the name Bosco, another Seinfeld nod.

Where was the film primarily shot, unlike Homecoming's Atlanta base?

Feige said so much of the story happened outside New York that it made sense to base the production in England.

Where was the Italian canal-city set built?

The same studios near Watford housed the Harry Potter films.

How was the Netherlands tulip scene really created?

Image Engine added the flowers digitally.

Which classic alternate version of the hero inspired the black stealth suit Fury gives Peter?

Peter's classmates dub the stealthy hero 'Night Monkey'; the suit's goggles flip up like Noir's.

Whose butler shows up at the airport instead of a parent, thanks to a pitch by the actor?

Tony Revolori suggested it as funnier; the crew shot both versions and kept the butler, Gerald.

Which Captain America: Civil War scene did the illusion-battle transitions have to match?

Beck's tech is the same holographic system Stark showed off at MIT; Framestore also borrowed from the Spectre title sequence.

Which two performers did the visual effects supervisor compare Mysterio to?

Ryan Meinerding designed him as a mash-up of Thor and Doctor Strange, fishbowl helmet intact.

Which Marvel villains did Watts say he was interested in using before Mysterio was chosen?

Mysterio won because his history of deception suited a Spider-Man mourning Stark, and let the writers touch on fake news.

Which Homecoming villain was confirmed to return and then dropped from the film?

Michael Keaton and Laura Harrier were both confirmed and then cut from the plans.

Where was the J. Jonah Jameson cameo filmed?

Watts approached him as late as possible to keep it secret and says he never considered anyone else.

Watts compared the reimagined Jameson to which real-world broadcaster?

Feige said moving him from newspaper editor to a screaming online pundit made more sense in 2019.

Which cinematographer, who had shot Watts's Cop Car, lit each city with its own palette?

He scouted the Italian location three times to study its 'warm, sandy light'; the film was shot on Alexa Minis to suit Sony's 2K pipeline.

Which airline appeared in the film with one of its Boeing 777s as a promotional partner?

Audi, Dr Pepper, Papa John's and Burger King helped push the promotional campaign to a record $288 million.

What was unusual about the second trailer's opening?

It was tacked onto Endgame screenings, echoing how The Avengers' trailer ended The First Avenger.

Roughly how much did Far From Home gross worldwide?

It was the first Spider-Man film past $1 billion and, from August 2019, Sony's biggest film ever.

Which Bond film did it overtake to become Sony's highest-grossing film?

It passed the 2012 film on August 18, 2019.

What was the film's six-day opening in the U.S. and Canada, beating Spider-Man 2's July 4 record?

Its Tuesday opening of $39.3 million was a record for that day of the week.

Which Disney film knocked it off the top of the North American box office in its third weekend?

Its 51% second-weekend drop was gentler than Homecoming's 62%.

Where did the film open a week before the U.S. release?

China's debut was the fourth-best ever for a superhero film there.

What was the name of the short film on the home release built from cut errand scenes?

It also restored Hemky Madera's bodega owner Mr. Delmar, cut entirely from the feature.

Which real website did Sony create for the home-media viral campaign?

It was modelled on conspiracy sites and had to correct a testimonial that contradicted Feige on how the Blipped returned.

Which returning Homecoming composer scored Far From Home?

His return was confirmed in October 2018, a few months into the shoot.

What working title did the production use for its New York and Newark shoot in October 2018?

The English portion of the shoot had gone under the title Fall of George; locations included Madison Square Garden, Penn Station and Newark Liberty airport.

Kevin Feige said the Spider-Man films might follow which franchise's model of one school year per film?

A second film was planned to cover Peter Parker's junior year of high school.

Which Czech city, along with Prague, hosted filming in September 2018?

The production then moved on to Venice by the end of the month after starting in Hertfordshire, England, on July 2.