Spider-Man: Homecoming 2is moving right along, as it looks like the movie is set to begin filming this summer. Marvel and Sony have managed to totally revive the character of Spider-Man in the eyes of the world, thank to Tom Holland’s Peter Parker now being allowed to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, we have word that the still untitled sequel is going to start filming this June overseas, interestingly enough, in Berlin, Germany.
For one, we know this means that the nextSpider-Manmovie in the MCU is moving along rather swiftly, which was expected, given the success ofSpider-Man: Homecoming. This also tells us that we could be in for something pretty different, as the shooting location would seem to imply. The last movie shot partially in New York and partially in Atlanta, where the bulk of the MCU movies do at least some, if not quite a bit of filming. Since Spidey is primarily a hero who works in New York, why are they filming in Berlin? Could we be seeing the webslinger traveling abroad?
Story details are currently being kept under wraps for theSpider-Man: Homecoming sequel, so it’s difficult to speculate. Though, we have heard that this movie will be bringingGwen Stacyinto the fold and that she could be portrayed as a foreign exchange student. Possibly a German foreign exchange student? There are only a fewSpider-Mancomic book stories that take place in Berlin. One involves Ned Leeds' transformation into the Hobgoblin, but we seem pretty far away from that happening in the MCU. There’s also a Cold War era story,Spider-Man vs Wolverine, but Disney won’t be able to use any of theX-Mencharacters for a while yet, so that doesn’t seem overly likely either.
Spider-Man: Homecomingwas very big on giving fans things they had never seen in previousSpider-Man movies, which paid off in a huge way.Spider-Man: Homecominggrossed $880.2 million worldwide, making it the second highest-grossingSpider-Manmovie ever, trailing onlySpider-Man 3. That being the case, Sony, Marvel anddirector Jon Wattsare likely to continue the trend of doing new things with Peter Parker this time around. Sending him to Berlin would do the trick. Also, not for nothing, but the airport scene inCaptain America: Civil Wardid take place in Germany.
Thenext Spider-Man sequelwill be the first movie to be released afterAvengers 4with a release date set for June 18, 2025. That makes it a very key movie for the MCU, as it will be the first movie to usher in the next phase of the universe after the seismic shift that’s going to occur inAvengers: Infinity WarandAvengers 4. Omega Underground also notes that filming is likely to wrap sometime in September and that the movie will also probably shoot in Atlanta, in addition to Berlin.
