Overview

• At the Mediterrane Film Festival, Watts said he found fan art on Reddit that exactly predicted his planned rooftop reveal for Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.
• Worried the moment had become too obvious, he rewrote the scene to introduce the two Spider-Men at Ned Leeds’s Filipino grandmother’s house in Queens.
• The change highlights the challenge filmmakers face in preserving key plot twists amid widespread online speculation following the MCU’s Phase 4 multiverse setup.
• Commentators have linked the decision to George R.R. Martin’s advice against letting fan theories steer a story, warning it can sacrifice narrative integrity.
• Industry observers view Watts’s pivot as emblematic of a broader trend in modern filmmaking to balance audience engagement with effective spoiler management.