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Spider web making arachnophilia5/5/2023 Perhaps we’ll see more like it, but such secrecy is now impossible with big movies. The aforementioned Spider-Man’s Zendaya, for example, is currently to be found alongside John David Washington in Malcolm & Marie, an artful little two-hander shot in secrecy during the summer lockdown then dropped on Netflix with little fanfare, like a Taylor Swift album. Perhaps in counter-reaction, we have seen another trend recently: the secret movie. ![]() Shot on the fly … Zendaya with John David Washington in Malcolm & Marie. Bellingcat has got nothing on these folks. Those images are then crowd-analysed and cross-referenced with clues from interviews (“Zendaya teases aliens in Spider-Man 3?”), Instagram accounts, leaked scripts, tie-in Lego kits, you name it. Do a location shoot and illicit images will be up on Twitter before you’ve wrapped. Put out an anonymised casting call and they’ll figure out what it’s for (Spider-Man was “The November Project”). ![]() The fans seem to be winning this game, however. They don’t want anyone spoiling their surprises, but a steady trickle of advance information is handy marketing. Studios have always encouraged a certain amount of cat-and-mouse with fans when it comes to secrecy. And what’s filming in Atlanta? The new Spider-Man! Boom! Not to say this proves the Garfield/Maguire cameo is true (and many defended Garfield as “not rude asf”), but it speaks of the dedicated army of amateur sleuths out there, patrolling the web, sharing knowledge, piecing it all together. The rumour solidified last week when, randomly following up a thing she’d read on TikTok, found a tweet from late January from a guy saying he’d just delivered food to Andrew Garfield (and he was “rude asf”). That would have been a great surprise, except now it’s not a surprise. First came rumours – spoiler alert! – that alongside Spider-Man laureate Tom Holland, the latest movie will pull a meta-storytelling flourish by bringing back former Spider-Men Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire. ![]() Recent Spider-Man developments illustrate just how absurd things have become.
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