‘Spider-Man’ director Destin Daniel Cretton

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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. At the end of the last Spider-Man movie, No Way Home back in 2021, Peter Parker makes a choice. To save the people he loves, he had everyone on Earth forget he ever existed. My guest today, filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretin, picks up the story years later, in the latest Spider Man brand new day.

Peter, played by Tom Holland, is still Spider Man, but years after everyone he loves has forgotten about him, and he's living alone. When strange things begin happening to his powers, there's no one in his life who knows him well enough to even know something is wrong. What is happening to me? Did you miss me Spidey? I'm losing my mind.

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