“I think what Jon Watts did really well is he would call the ‘Raimi Cam,’” Holland explains. As the Peter Parker of today tells it, director Jon Watts even emulated some of Raimi’s signature camera tricks, bringing a taste of that bonkers filmmaking which turned the original Spider-Man trilogy into a visually wild and innovative rollercoaster.

Holland says as much when we talk with him about Spider-Man: No Way Home and returning to Raimi’s legacy in 2021. And in their own way, they’re getting to go back in time while honoring what the Raimi films did. Now, in a still impossible-seeming trick of blockbuster origami, the trio of leads who came of age while leading their own Spider-Man trilogy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) are getting to work opposite Dafoe and Molina in Spider-Man: No Way Home (as confirmed via multiple trailers and other recent promos). And the future No Way Home actors were only a few years older when Alfred Molina made his debut as the dastardly Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 in 2004. How could they not? Each actor was at the perfect age of either five or six when the 2002 Spidey movie came out-a game-changing event which featured Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker and Willem Dafoe as the Green Goblin.

Stars Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jacob Batalon grew up with the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies.

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