FILM 1676: SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
TRIVIA: The scene in which Peter,
through sheer force of will, lifts the machinery pinning him down after The
Vulture forces the structure to collapse on him, is a nod to a scene in The
Amazing Spider-Man #33, in which he does the same thing. The panels in the
comic are considered by many to be some of the most iconic in Spider-Man's
history.
Jennifer Connelly
voices the Spider-Man computer Karen. Her husband Paul Bettany had
voiced the Iron Man computer J.A.R.V.I.S. She was also cast, because of her
appearance in the John Hughes produced Career Opportunities
(1991). "Homecoming" pays homage to Hughes' high school films, and
casting Connelly was done as a tribute to his career. Connelly was also
previously cast as Elizabeth "Betty" Ross in Hulk (2003).
In an interview from 2013, while
promoting his upcoming film, How I Live Now (2013), Tom Holland was
asked by a reporter what kind of role he might want to try next. When Holland
replied, saying a project with action and humor would be of interest to him,
the reporter asked if he would ever like to play a superhero. "Maybe
Spider-Man, in ten years time," answered Holland. "The reboot of the
reboot, if they do that."
Tom Holland is the
youngest actor (at nineteen) to be cast as Peter Parker. His predecessors, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield,
were twenty-five and twenty-six, respectively, when they were cast.
The filmmakers have stated that
this movie takes inspiration on John Hughes' comedies from the 1980s about
teens and high school. One of John Hughes' films, Weird Science (1985),
features a young Robert Downey, Jr. who plays Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic
Universe.
Michelle's (Zendaya's) literary
tastes contain subtle allusions to either the plot or spiders. At one point,
she is seen reading "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham. In
that novel, the protagonist is an orphan living with his aunt and uncle. Later,
she is reading "Invitation To A Beheading" by Vladimir Nabokov. In
that novel, a condemned man awaits his execution, accompanied only by a spider
in his cell. Finally, during the Washington Monument scene, she is wearing a
Sylvia Plath t-shirt. Plath wrote a poem called "Spider", and used
spiders as images in other poems.
In The Amazing Spider-Man (2012),
Andrew Garfield can be seen wearing a Ramones shirt. In this movie,
"Blitzkreig Bop" by the Ramones is featured. The Ramones famously
covered the original Spider-Man theme song, as a hidden bonus track on their
"¡Adios Amigos!" album. "Adios" was their final album, and
their hidden bonus track "Spider-Man" was the last song on their last
original album.
When the science team arrives at
the hotel in Washington, D.C., one of the members comments on the size of it.
Flash Thompson (Tony Revolori), comments that he has seen bigger. He may have
been referring to his time spent as Zero at The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
John Francis Daley, who co-wrote
the screenplay, and Martin Starr, who played Mr. Harrington, were in the
television series Freaks and Geeks (1999). Daley also appeared as F.B.I.
Special Agent Sweets, on Bones (2005).
