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Trivia: Co-star Michael Madsen was reportedly very unhappy (and often drunk) during most of filming, and has referred to the finished film as "an abomination." He did say that he enjoyed working with director Uwe Boll, though.

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Trivia: Writer Guinevere Turner alleged that director Uwe Boll called her and screamed at her when she was writing the first draft of the script, and demanded she hand it in. She gave him the first draft the following week to get notes... and was shocked to learn that Boll was immediately going into production with her first draft without any rewriters. Turner later learned after filming that Boll and the cast rewrote most of the script on-set, and that the finished film was nothing like her draft.

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Trivia: Originally, the production wanted Starbucks to be the company featured in the film, but Starbucks refused to be associated with the movie in any way. As originally scripted, Al Pacino would have done his rap about the Starbucks "frappuccino" drinks. The production then managed to land a deal with Dunkin Donuts as a backup plan, and they re-wrote "frappuccino" as "dunkacchino."

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Question: Any reason why the new 2021 MVD Blu-ray is so heavily edited? Bought it online, and was extremely disappointed to see that virtually all the gore was edited out. Why bother doing a new restoration if it's going to be of the edited-for-TV version and not the full uncut version?

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Trivia: Before the release of this film, the original 2002 "Spider-Man" movie was still the highest grossing solo-Spider-Man film domestically at $407 million, and had been for nearly 20 years. It was finally surpassed by this film on only its ninth day of release. (And this is despite being released during the pandemic when the box office was generally underperforming).

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Trivia: While the studio has only acknowledged that the budget was just over $250 million, insiders have suggested that its actual budget was closer to $350 million once you account for things like research and development for the visual effects, the astronomical cost of filming in New York, extensive last-minute reshoots, etc, making it one of the most expensive movies ever made.

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Trivia: Scarlett Johansson was reportedly a serious contender for the role of Gwen Stacy. Ironically, she would later go on to play the character "Black Widow" in the MCU - a spy/assassin whose name is taken from a breed of spider.

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Trivia: Reportedly, astronaut John Jameson from "Spider-Man 2" was originally going to have a cameo where he'd be returning to Earth from a space mission, and the symbiote (presumably drifting through space) would latch onto his shuttle to explain where it came from. This scene was deemed to be too long and costly by the studio, so the symbiote had to be hastily re-written to have arrived on a meteor.

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Trivia: In a strange bit of irony, the red-headed Mary Jane is played by Kirsten Dunst, who is naturally blond... while the blonde Gwen Stacey is portrayed by Bryce Dallas Howard, who is naturally a red-head.

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Trivia: Despite the common complaint that he wasn't muscular enough for the role, Topher Grace actually put on over 20 pounds of muscle mass for the movie through an intensive training program.

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Trivia: The "Birth of Sandman" scene in which Sandman reconstitutes himself took over six months to produce because the particle effects were so intricate to render, and the filmmakers wanted to really nail the look, pacing and tone of the scene. In fact, before producing that scene, the visual effects artists actually studied sand looks, physics and dynamics for several years, knowing that Sandman was intended to be a major villain in the third film.

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Trivia: Bryce Dallas Howard performed most of her own stunts... she was unaware that she was actually pregnant at the time. Thankfully, she had no complications.

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Trivia: For the scene where Spider-Man punches through Sandman's chest, a very simple trick was used. For that scene, Spider-Man was played by a stuntman/actor who really was missing his arm from the elbow-down. Therefore, he was able to punch Sandman in the chest, and have it looks like his arm went "into" him. To tie the scene together, simple digital effects were added to put in the rest of the arm coming out of Sandman's back.

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Trivia: Director Sam Raimi has openly stated that he disliked how the film turned out, even going so far as to call it "awful" in a podcast interview for Nerdist. While he refused to openly lay blame on the studio interference, he said that he "didn't believe in the characters," and stated that trying to follow his instincts to raise the stakes and make the story bigger after the first two movies ultimately "doomed" the film, as he should have just focused on progressing the character's various arcs.

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Trivia: The film had been in some form of development since 2001. It was finally released in 2021 - twenty years after initial development began. (Although Stan Lee had campaigned for a movie starring the character as early as the 1980's, and he wanted Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee, to star in it).

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Trivia: Tom Holland confirmed that director Jon Watt borrowed directorial elements from previous "Spider-Man" films for this movie to pay tribute to them. For example, he sometimes tried to mimic the frenetic movement and quirky camera angles of Sam Raimi, who famously directed the original "Spider-Man" movie trilogy from 2002-2007 and is well-known for his unique camerawork.

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Trivia: Despite his prominent billing, John Krasinski has less than 10 minutes of screen time in the entire film (all in flashbacks), due to his character's death in the first film.

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Trivia: The film held its world premiere in March, 2020. However, the COVID-19 pandemic became so severe, that its general release date ended up getting postponed all the way to May, 2021 - fourteen months after its world premiere.

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Trivia: Spoiler Alert: When Sandman and Lizard are cured and turned back into humans, the footage of them in their human forms is actually digitally manipulated stock footage and alternate takes from their respective original films. Ex. When Sandman turns human, it's using manipulated stock footage from the subway fight scene in "Spider-Man 3." When Lizard is turned human, it appears to be an alternate angle/B-roll from footage featured in the final battle of "The Amazing Spider-Man."

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Trivia: !MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!"Spider-Man: No Way Home" features the first on-screen appearance of Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man in 14 years, since the release of "Spider-Man 3" in 2007. It also features the first on-screen appearance of Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man in 7 years, since the release of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" in 2014. The film's multiverse-based story allowed them to return and interact with one-another and Tom Holland's version of the character.

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