Palisadian Kevin Feige Executive Produces ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’

By LILY TINOCO | Reporter

Palisadian Kevin Feige—president of Marvel Studios—executive produced “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” Marvel Studios and Sony’s latest collaboration project that premiered on Friday, December 17.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” stars Tom Holland as he reprises his role as Peter Parker for his third individual film. In an interview with Marvel Entertainment, Feige said the film comes after Peter Parker had his identity revealed in “Spider-Man: Far From Home.”

“We knew that we had put Peter Parker in a very hard circumstance … and from there, we decide what happens next and how do we make things harder for him,” he said. “He’s been in space, he’s become Spider-Man, he’s lost his mentor and now his identity is revealed and all he wants to do is graduate high school and go to college. We started there.”

Peter Parker is set to go up against villains from Sam Raimi’s and Marc Webb’s “Spider-Man” movies, including Alfred Molina as Doc Ock, Willem Dafoe as the Green Goblin, Jamie Foxx as Electro, Rhys Ifans’ as Lizard and Thomas Haden Church as Sandman.

Feige said it was emotional bringing these villains back from previous films.

“I’ve been making movies for 20 years now at Marvel and they started … with the premiere of Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man’ … We were sitting around a room saying, ‘If I saw Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin again and Alfred Molina … as Doc Ock, I would lose my mind,’” he said. “That starting point and a lot of luck came together. They were interested, we were able to bring them back.”

Feige said the relationship between Sony, Marvel and Disney is “unprecedented” in Hollywood history, but it is all because “everybody loves Spider-Man.”

“I think that was the genius of what Steve Ditko and Stan Lee did all those years ago, they made [Peter Parker] us,” Feige said to Marvel Entertainment. “They made him flawed, and relatable and … here he is in this giant, anticipated movie that may [or may] not have consequences for the multiverse, but Peter Parker just wants to go college … That’s it. And you want to root for that person.”

“Spider-Man: No Way Home,” rated PG-13, premiered at Fox Village Theatre in Los Angeles on December 13 before being released in theaters on Friday, December 17, with a runtime of two hours and 28 minutes.