Waching daily Jul 6 2017

in the official trailers for Spider-Man: Homecoming, the web-slinging superhero can be seen soaring through the sky next to Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man.

It's a shot that masterfully hypes the movie in mere seconds: it teases Downey Jr.'s return, gives fans of the ongoing MCU a chance to reminisce on Spider-Man's first appearance in Captain America: Civil War and promises an epic team-up.

The reason behind Homecoming's missing scenes stands apart, however, as a ScreenCrush interview with director Jon Watts reveals. The shot of Spider-Man and Iron Man airborne

as well as a shot of the movie's villain, the Vulture, descending from a hotel atrium — were never actually going to be in the final product.

Watts says that the Vulture shot was created specifically for a Comic-Con sizzle reel when the project was still early in filming.

"That was never meant to be in the movie," he says. "But I did use that angle for Vulture's reveal at the beginning of the movie; Vulture's hovering, swooping towards the camera like that. I used that shot, it's just no longer in an Atlanta hotel atrium."

As for that scene of Spider-Man and Iron Man swooping through Queens? It, too, was never in the movie. "I think what happened was in the very first trailer they wanted a shot of Spider-Man and Iron Man flying together," Watts says.

"And they were going to use something from the Staten Island Ferry [scene], but it just didn't look that great — the background plate, because the Staten Island terminal is a very simple building. It almost looks like an unrendered 3D object."

So, the pair wound up with Queens as a backdrop. "Because we couldn't just create a whole new shot, so let's just use one of these shots of the subway; put them in there," Watts says.

"I feel a little weird that there's a shot in the trailer that's not in the movie at all, but it's a cool shot."