Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse had a little extra magic at one point.
It’s been revealed that Doctor Strange was to have popped up at the end of story, potentially making room for some sequel involvement. The film’s producers, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, have mentioned that the cameo was only touted in the first stages of writing, though, and plans didn’t go any further than that. We’ll have to comfort ourselves with the pair’s Infinity War scenes for now.
“The first draft ended with [Strange],” Lord told our US chums. “It ended with him saying, ‘Okay, I have some things to tell you.’ It was the first draft, like three years ago. It ended with Doctor Strange. Literally, the last frame was Doctor Strange, going, ‘Hello.’”
As our friends at Flickering Myth point out, this wouldn’t have been the first reference to the Sorcerer Supreme to make it into a Spider-Man film. That honour goes to Sam Raimi’s 2004 classic, Spider-Man 2:
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