The post-credits scenes in Spider-Man: Far From Home certainly opened up several possibilities in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But what does it all mean? Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and Far From Home director Jon Watts have just explained two of the biggest surprises in the film.
In the mid-credits scene, it is revealed that Quentin Beck's associates had sent footage of his fight with Spider-Man to The Daily Bugle. In the scene, J. Jonah Jameson breaks the news and the video reveals Peter Parker to be the webslinger.
Interestingly, Jameson is still played by J.K. Simmons, who had portrayed the character in the Sam Raimi trilogy. Feige revealed in a new video that Simmons' return was something that has been planned for a long time (via ComicBook.com).
"It was an idea we had from the very earliest conversations of, if we at Marvel Studios get to work with Sony and make a Spider-Man movie, we want to bring Jameson back, somehow," Feige admitted. "And thinking about who it could be, we really thought J.K. as an actor is so versatile, and you look at his amazing iconic performance in the Raimi films. But then look at his amazing performances in Whiplash and in other films. You go, it can be the same guy but a different tone, and tap into sort of more modern, news personalities of today."
Meanwhile, the post-credits scene revealed that Nick Fury and Maria Hill were actually Talos and Soren, the Skrulls that Fury helped save in Captain Marvel. However, Watts says that it doesn't mean Talos had been impersonating Fury all this time.
"First of all, to clarify the timeline, that's real Nick Fury at Tony's funeral at the end of Endgame, so it's not like he's been a Skrull forever or like, it's not like he's been a Skrull since Captain Marvel," he said.
Watts also confirmed that this was why Fury seemed so easily duped in the first place.
"It always sort of bothered me even though we knew that that's what we wanted the story to be, that Nick Fury could get duped even though he's been gone for five years and he's on his back foot," he said. "Like, I wanted to come up with one last little reveal that could explain that unanswered question. And when you're making a con man movie, it just feels like the right thing to do to have one last little twist that makes you look at everything slightly differently."
It all certainly makes sense but there's another question: Where was Fury and what was he building? Looks like we'll have to wait until the next MCU film to find out.
Spider-Man: Far From Home is currently screening in theaters worldwide.
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