'Spider-Man: Homecoming': Does Tom Holland's Field Trip to Avengers Country Suggest Plot Point?
Tom Holland has been doing a bang-up job documenting the making of Spider-Man: Homecoming on Instagram. There he is taking a sky-high selfie! Watch him stick the landing, Simone Biles-style! And dig those mad Spidey dance skills! On Thursday, the young actor was back at it, throwing up a photo of himself with co-star Jacob Batalon and friend Harrison Osterfield (who’s working as a production assistant on Homecoming) at Porsche’s U.S. headquarters in Atlanta.
The A team! @hazosterfield @lifeisaloha
A photo posted by ✌️ (@tomholland2013) on Sep 15, 2016 at 11:21am PDT
The picture might be an innocuous field trip for a trio of car lovers, a pilgrimage to the high-tech campus where some of the world’s sweetest rides are produced and tested. But eagle (or Falcon?)-eyed Marvel Cinematic Universe nerds are bound to read more into it.
See, the Porsche site isn’t far from Pinewood Atlanta Studios, the home base for Marvel movie production and where Homecoming has been filming since late June. (The production will soon be moving to New York for some location work.) And for three recent movies, the Porsche HQ has doubled as Avengers HQ.
We first saw it at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron, constructed in upstate New York after the city-based skyscraper was wrecked by Ultron and where the new-look Avengers assemble…
Then in Ant-Man, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) tangled with Falcon (Anthony Mackie) at the site…
Finally, several scenes of Captain America: Civil War were set there.
Add in the fact that Holland captioned his photo “The A team!” and that Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark/Iron Man is going to appear in the film, and it’s easy to jump to the conclusion that Holland might have been working on a scene for Homecoming.
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Why would Spidey be dropping in? Perhaps to visit Stark and check out some new gear? The creative team behind Civil War has admitted they had plans to include the Iron Spider suit — tricked-out armor designed by Stark in the comics. Maybe we’ll get a peek at that in Homecoming? In any case, we won’t know for sure until the film hits theaters on July 7, 2017.
