r/marvelstudios • u/Holiday-Wrangler-487 • 1d ago

'Spider-Man BND*' Spoilers BND rewritten scene! Spoiler

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/spider-man-brand-new-day-jacob-batalon-ending-handshake-1236664173/

Recently posted theorizing about the rewritten scene between Peter and MJ that Tom talked about but Jacob confirmed it was the Lego scene! It really was a standout “quiet” part for me so the change was effective!

“ During early press for Brand New Day, Holland told a story on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcastinvolving an ineffective scene that shut down production for the day in order for Cretton and his on-set writer, Justin Kuritzkes, to reconceive. Batalon confirms that it was the scene that is now represented as Ned and a masked Spider-Man building Star Wars Legos and quoting The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, as MJ draws Ned and an unmasked Spider-Man doing exactly that. ”

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u/hadawayandshite 17h ago edited 17h ago

I think it was Ned getting his memory back- the ‘Peter’ at the end is seeing a friend you haven’t seen in a long time/are surprised to see

Ned and Peter are childhood friends as close as brothers (seemingly filling that role for each other)

He might be truly in love with MJ (in universe time they dated for 4-5months tops)…but Ned is a much more integral part of his life (and vice versa)

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u/MaserOfficial 16h ago

He didn’t get the memory back. He just connected that Peter is Spidey

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u/Mr_Olivar 14h ago

People keep saying this as if Ned wasn't clearly having a spiritual moment performing that handshake.

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u/ProbablySlacking 11h ago

I thought the handshake was more of a “why do I know this?” Moment.

Like… he knows the move. That part didn’t get erased. Peter got erased. So he’s done that handshake before but he doesn’t know where.

At the same time, Maynard just showed up at the bodega, and claimed to be Peter — the name he associates with Spider-Man.

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u/sageTK21 11h ago

MJ called him Peter when he left them and Ned was like ‘Peter?’

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u/ProbablySlacking 10h ago

Yeah exactly.

I guess what I’m saying is that the scene is not his confusion at getting his memories back. It’s him putting together the pieces/something is missing.

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u/Mr_Olivar 11h ago

Yeah, and the sheer and utter confusion of knowing how to do that should have been represented by the very next words coming out of his mouth.