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WARNING: This article contains full spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has a massive amount of cameos and easter eggs peppered throughout the movie.
On top of a number of deep-cut comic book references, the picture also showed snippets of some live-action Spider-Men, including Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire in some of their most iconic scenes from the past.
But one Spidey actor was noticeably absent: Tom Holland; the current Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
It sounds like viewers may have missed out on the British actor’s appearance in the movie, however, according to one of the film’s bosses.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse directors Kemp Powers, Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin K Thompson recently spoke to Variety about bringing the live-action portions of the movie to life.
With that, they revealed they axed a “huge” scene involving real-life actors before the film hit cinemas.
Powers said: “There were times when we had huge live-action sequences in the film, and it just turned into a bad joke. Even we didn’t like it anymore.”
Eventually, Powers said, the directors agreed: “OK, enough, let’s make sure that it’s something precise that gets the most bang for the buck, and speaks to the story.”
This unfortunately meant that a massive live-action sequence didn’t grace cinema screens in the movie – which could have meant a crossover with Holland’s Spider-Man and Miles Morales.
However, it seems as if the MCU has already crossed over with the Spider-Verse series with the arrival of actor Donald Glover.
Glover briefly played, Aaron Davis – The Prowler – in Spider-Man: Homecoming, but was quickly thwarted.
The Community actor returned as Davis in Across the Spider-Verse, captured by Spider-Man 2099.
Powers recalled: “[The cameo] was shot at a studio in New York. Chris Miller flew to be there in person, and Phil Lord and I were on the video feed giving direction. We got it in at the 11th hour. As a matter of fact, even in audience preview screenings, it was a little cardboard cutout of Donald Glover.”
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is in cinemas now.
