Where To Watch Every Raimi Spidey Movie
Ava Richardson Spider-Man: No Way Home promises to be a Multiversal adventure - so here's how viewers can rewatch the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy as well!
Lots of viewers are intending to rewatch previous Spidey movies ahead of Spider-Man: No Way Home - and here's how you can watch the original Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy. As strange as it may seem to modern audiences, there was a time - just a couple of decades ago - when superhero films were considered to be something of a gamble. In fact, in the late '90s Sony passed on what would become the MCU; the studio was focused purely on acquiring the film rights for Spider-Man.
They acquired those rights, and in 2002 the first Spider-Man film by Sam Raimi proved they'd been right to consider the wall-crawler a surefire hit. Starring Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst as love interest Mary Jane Watson, Spider-Man played the comics straight, and it was an absolute hit. It launched a trilogy of successful films starring the same cast, and to this day Spider-Man 2 - which also featured Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus - is still considered one of the best superhero movies ever made. It looks as though 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home will pay its respects to the trilogy, with returning villains such as Molina's Doctor Octopus and Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin.
Marvel viewers often conduct rewatches ahead of the latest releases, but this time the rewatch is a little more complicated. In addition to Tom Holland's MCU films, audiences will need to check out these classics as well.
How To Watch Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy
The original Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies - 2002's Spider-Man, 2004's Spider-Man 2, and 2007's Spider-Man 3 - can currently be watched via subscription on Starz and DirectTV, while viewers can also rent them on Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, and Google Play, with prices ranging from $2.99-3.99. Earlier in 2021, Marvel and Sony reached an agreement that will ultimately bring the Spider-Man films to Disney+, but there's currently no word on when exactly they'll be added to the House of Mouse's streaming service; still, the two studios would surely be wise to add them near to the theatrical release of Spider-Man: No Way Home. That would be a particularly shrewd move given the Multiversal expectations for the latest Spider-Man threequel.
Still, it's impossible to say for sure when this will happen right now; there may well be other variables in play, such as Sony's prior licensing and distribution agreements. For now, anyone wanting to check out (or more likely rewatch) Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films will have to head to other streaming services.
