In less than one week, moviegoers will be piling into theaters to see Spider-Man: Homecoming, the latest big screen iteration of Marvel’s flagship character. According to critics, the movie is a hell of a lot of fun, and the news is making us even more excited for Spider-Man’s next appearance in Avengers: Infinity War. Tom Holland will reprise the Wall-Crawler once again in Marvel’s goliath team-up, but don’t bother asking him anything about it. Marvel is so worried about the combination of spoilers and Holland’s loose lips that they won’t even let him read the script. The actor recently revealed:
I don’t know anything about it or what it’s about. I know who the villain is, but that’s it. They don’t let me read anything because I’m so bad at keeping secrets.
Obviously, the villain is Thanos, Tom Holland. It’s the one thing everyone knows!
Marvel Studios is hard at work on Avengers: Infinity War, and it’s a bit of an understatement to say that it’s been a secretive production. The upcoming movie should be a culmination of almost a decade of films, so you better believe that Marvel and Disney are keeping those spoilers on lockdown by any means necessary. That includes keeping an eye on blabbermouth Tom Holland and making sure that the once and future Spider-Man doesn’t accidentally say something he’s not supposed to. The producers decided that the best way to do that was just not to tell him anything at all about the movie.
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Tom Holland told the Toronto Sun that he has no idea what is happening in Avengers: Infinity War. Holland only knows the events of the movie as they relate to Spider-Man, but other than that, he can’t tell you if the Black Order is there or what Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Doctor Strange, and Wong are up to. Apparently, Spider-Man’s screentime in Infinity War is pretty equivalent to his appearance in Captain America: Civil War, so Holland at most only knows a small portion of what’s going down anyway.
Avenger: Infinity War will reunite the Avengers and 40 something other characters as they must put their differences aside to stop the galactic warlord Thanos from acquiring the Infinity Stones and taking over the entire galaxy. Joe and Anthony Russo return to direct with a screenplay written by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely. A small portion of the cast includes Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Josh Brolin as Thanos. (You can catch the rundown of who we know is appearing here.)
Avengers: Infinity War is set to light the world on fire (in a good way hopefully) on May 4, 2018. Spider-Man: Homecoming arrives much sooner on July 7, 2017. To learn more about Infinity War, check out what we know so far.
Avengers: Endgame Directors Say Tom Holland Couldn’t Have A ScriptBYROBIN BURKSPUBLISHED APR 1, 2019
Avengers: Endgame co-director Joe Russo confirms they would not allow Tom Holland to have a copy of the script thanks to his reputation for spoilers.
Tom Holland was not allowed to have a script for Avengers: Endgame, a movie he stars in. Holland, who portrays Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is notorious for dropping spoilers for the films he’s appeared in. He’s become so famous for it that one fan put together a video of every time Holland nearly spoiled Avengers: Infinity War, but his co-star Benedict Cumberbatch, who portrays Doctor Strange, stopped him.
Holland has earned a reputation for spoilers, so much that he wasn’t allowed to read the script for Avengers: Infinity War, for fear he would accidentally slip up and tell fans what to expect. In that movie, the Avengers go up against Thanos, who collects all the Infinity Stones to give the villain the ultimate power to decimate half of the universe’s population. Many of the Avengers die at the end of Infinity War, something that Marvel did not want to give away ahead of the film’s release. That still didn’t stop Holland from spoiling Infinity War shortly after its release by showing up at a movie theater and saying to the audience, “I’m alive,” which gave away the fact that Spider-Man did not survive Thanos. Considering Peter Parker’s death in the film is probably one of the most emotional for audiences, most fans forgave him the slip-up.
For the follow-up film, Avengers: Endgame, Marvel again decided not to take any chances. According to ComicBook, Holland was not allowed to see the script for that movie either. Director Joe Russo confirmed the only parts of the script Holland saw were his lines and he did not even know who he was in scenes with until he got to set each day. Russo said:
“Yeah, Tom Holland does not get the script. Tom Holland gets his lines and that’s it. He doesn’t even know who he’s acting opposite of. We’ll just, we use like very vague terms to describe to him what is happening in the scene, because he has a very difficult time keeping his mouth shut.”
Holland isn’t the only Avenger, though, that has a bad habit of spilling the beans. Mark Ruffalo, who portrays the Hulk, has also been known to let loose with the spoilers, too. During an appearance on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, he accidentally gave away a spoiler for the movie and then later asked that it be removed before broadcast. Although that entire incident might have been for fun, Ruffalo has leaked a few things before, too. He most recently poked fun at his reputation for spoilers by pranking fans on April Fool’s Day with a “spoiler video” for Avengers: Endgame that was anything but.
What’s most endearing about Holland’s numerous slip-ups is that they usually come from his genuine excitement about being Spider-Man in the MCU. His enthusiasm for the role and his work is something that most of his fans love and admire. As for what’s next for Holland’s Spider-Man, fans will have to wait until Avengers: Endgame hits theaters.
