10 Things That Almost Completely Changed Spider-Man: Far From Home

The visual centrepiece of Far From Home is the bizarre and trippy sequence in which Peter rushes to Berlin to warn Fury of Quentin Beck's true nature, only to realise that it isn't Fury at all, but one of Beck's illusions, leading to a spiral of weird images as Mysterio messes with Peter's mind.

Spidey has to deal with a whole army of Mysterios, a zombie Iron Man, and MJ tumbling from the Eiffel Tower. But, even though the sequence was extended after proving a hit with test audiences, what we saw in the finished cut is only scratching the surface of some of the weirdness that was there in storyboards and pre-visualisation.

One moment would have seen Spider-Man trapped on a giant chessboard, menaced by a monster created from Mysterio's cape. In another, Spidey would have been caught in a giant spiderweb and attacked by an enormous spider. A further scene would have called back to the masks in Venice by featuring masks in wildly different scales.

None of this made it into the movie in the end, with visual effects supervisor Alexis Wajsbrot commenting that "There really were some some crazy ideas that, thankfully, didn’t stick, because I’m not sure we would have had time to be able to do them!" It's fun to imagine, though, that Mysterio's illusions could have been even stranger.