Spider-Man 3 Actor Says Peter Parker ‘Gained’t Be Relegated to the Sofa’
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Spider-Man 3 Actor Says Peter Parker ‘Gained’t Be Relegated to the Sofa’

Marvel’s Spider-Man 3 will see Peter Parker doing his Spider-Man factor regardless of what the ending of Spider-Man 2 suggests, the actor behind the character has mentioned.

Talking to The Direct, Yuri Lowenthal steered Parker will play an energetic function in the to this point unannounced however anticipated Marvel’s Spider-Man 3.

“There are only a few issues that I can say about this recreation, however you’ve got one way or the other landed on the one factor that I can reply, and that is that, sure, Peter shouldn’t be gone,” Lowenthal mentioned. “He might be part of the subsequent recreation and he will not be relegated to the sofa, I promise.”

Spoilers for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 observe.

The ending of Spider-Man 2 sees Peter Parker cross the Spider-Man torch to Miles Morales as the major Spidey in a cutscene that implies Parker needs to take an indefinite hiatus from web-slinging. The ending is seen by some as a kind of retirement for Peter Parker, however Lowenthal has repeatedly mentioned Pete has extra to provide.

“There have been some feedback lately that have been picked up to infer that Peter’s out and Miles is in,” Lowenthal mentioned in an interview with Variety final yr.

“Whereas I believe that Peter would love to consider that he can simply flip it off and never be Spider-Man anymore and reside a very regular life, I don’t suppose that’s what’s going to occur now.”

“I believe 100% he trusts Miles,” Lowenthal continued. “Miles has actually stepped up and he’s like, ‘Oh, perhaps I can get a bit of break.’ And I did get a trip to Symkaria throughout the Miles recreation. Not a lot of a trip, however a minimum of MJ obtained to be taught to trip a bike, which is superior.” That bike line is a nod to MJ’s newfound talent with a motorcycle in Spider-Man 2 (and a cool Akira Easter egg).

In October, Insomniac made the shock announcement that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 wouldn’t get any extra story content material, placing to mattress fan hopes for DLC.

The announcement got here in the identical breath that Sony introduced a PC model of Spider-Man 2, which launched in January — considered one of the quickest turnarounds from single-player PS5 unique to PC from the firm to this point.

Since Spider-Man 2 got here out in September 2023, Insomniac has launched a variety of updates for the recreation, including New Recreation+, mission replay, new fits, and extra. However followers had hoped that story DLC would give them extra of a purpose to return to Insomniac’s fantastic recreation of New York than the addition of recent options.

However followers hadn’t simply hoped for Spider-Man 2 story DLC, they’d anticipated it after the recreation itself left a variety of threads that Insomniac may need pulled on for extra content material, together with the introduction of Carnage.

Past that, although, the devastating Insomniac knowledge breach of December 2023, which revealed the studio’s upcoming slate of releases, and the unintended launch of Spider-Man 2’s growth recreation menu final yr, all pointed to deliberate DLC. Certainly, the growth recreation menu included what regarded like the complete arc of a DLC referred to as the ‘Beetle Villain Arc.’

All through the turbulence attributable to the Insomniac knowledge breach, Sony made a major spherical of layoffs affecting round 900 employees, or about 8% of its international PlayStation workforce. Insomniac was considered one of a variety of PlayStation studios hit by the cuts. Alongside the layoffs, some in-development video games have been canceled, Sony mentioned at the time.

To learn how Insomniac has arrange its subsequent sequel, try IGN’s Spider-Man 2 ending defined.

Wesley is the UK Information Editor for IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You’ll be able to attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

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