Director Jon Watts Reveals Why He Included MCU Easter Eggs In 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'

Spider-Man: Homecoming is just around the corner, and is set to be full of references to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While writing the final script for the film, director Jon Watts decided to include Easter Eggs as well as connections to the larger MCU. The decision came after the writer and director realized he had a strong understanding of how the MCU and Spider-Man could progress in the coming years.

"It's not coming down in any way. It's more like you're just a bunch of people sitting around writing fan fiction. I remember the initial list of all of the stuff in that scene when Happy's talking about the magic belt. Chris Warden and I, who wrote that part of the movie, we wrote up just a page long monologue of all the things that they could have. It was basically a page-long monologue of Easter eggs."

The "page-long monologue" was unfortunately narrowed down to just three items, which #SpiderManHomecoming audiences will learn over the next couple of weeks.

"There's no dictates really. It's more just the ball is in my court to come up with as many fun things as I could, and just see how many we can squeeze into the movie, because everyone is just a fan. You're working with the biggest fans in the world basically, so all of that stuff is welcomed."

Guardians Of The Galaxy Compared To Spider-Man: Homecoming

Continuing with his interview, Watts compared Spider-Man to the Guardians Of The Galaxy. With James Gunn introducing Star-Lord, he also had the chance to go on a journey through uncharted territories of the MCU. Following in Gunn's footsteps, Watts believes Spider-Man Homecoming offers a similar opportunity, but much more grounded:

"It's absolutely a part of the world that hasn't been explored. The ground-level world, you know? In the way that Guardians just really got into the space part of it, you know? The outer galaxy element. In the same way, I got to just explore the day-to-day. There's so much. Yeah. There's so many tiny little connections and references and Easter eggs."