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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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Trivia: Originally, John Krasinski didn't want to write or direct the film. He came up with the basic story, but intended to hand off the project to another writer/director to develop and helm. However, the studio was eventually able to convince him to return.

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Trivia: Ironically, this theatrical movie is actually slightly shorter than the average episode of the TV show that inspired it. The show typically runs 80-90 minutes per episode (roughly two hours with commercials), while the movie is only 74 minutes.

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Trivia: Like many movies, its release was pushed back multiple times due to the COVID pandemic. It was originally scheduled to be released in July, 2021. It was subsequently pushed back to November, and then again to December.

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Trivia: Original "Doctor Strange" director Scott Derrickson was originally attached to return for this sequel in 2017, but left the production in early 2020. Derrickson and his co-writer C. Robert Cargill wanted to take the movie in a different direction than Marvel Studios, and decided to step away, as they did not want to compromise either their or Marvel's vision for the sequel. Derrickson however is remaining attached as an executive producer due to his work on the first movie and the character.

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Trivia: The fourth comic-book movie directed by Sam Raimi, who previously directed the original "Spider-Man" trilogy in the 2000's. Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige is reportedly a big fan of Raimi's first two "Spider-Man" movies (even referring to "Spider-Man 2" as "one of the best superhero movies ever" in interviews), and desperately wanted to bring him into the MCU as a director.

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Trivia: This reboot was announced while the last film in the original film series - "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" - was still in theaters.

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Trivia: Reportedly, the number of deer that were hunted in the US fell by nearly 50% for several years after the film's release. This has sometimes been attributed to the film anthropomorphizing deer and making them more relatable. The film is also known for helping coin the term "The Bambi Effect," in which people are somewhat less likely to hunt or kill animals that are as cute.

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Trivia: The scene with Jill eating Wesker's sandwich and saying "It's Jill's sandwich now!" (although saying it quickly in such a way that you can't hear the "s" and it sounds more like "It's Jill sandwich now!") is a reference to an infamous moment in the original video game. In the game, Jill is almost crushed by a booby-trap, and the character Barry says she was "almost a Jill sandwich!" The poor dialogue and terrible delivery by the voice actor ended up making the moment a meme many years later.

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Trivia: Was originally set to be produced by James Wan, but he left the project to produce the 2021 film "Mortal Kombat" - another reboot of a popular video-game-to-movie adaptation.

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Trivia: Writer Guinevere Turner has stated that she actually spent much of the premier laughing at how bad the film turned out. Especially because so much of the film had been changed during filming, it had virtually no resemblance to her script.

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