Spider-Man: No Way Home - 13 Fascinating New Details The Writers Just Revealed

A minor, yet possibly hugely important tidbit mentioned in Variety's article is the fact that McKenna and Sommers started writing No Way Home under the impression that it was set after Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness:

“We were actually working off of things that were happening in Doctor Strange 2, and trying to incorporate them into our script."

But then, the pandemic happened, forcing release dates to be shifted and movies to be pushed. Strange's sequel was shoved down the line, forcing the Spidey writers to change their script so that Strange knew basically nothing about the multiverse:

"When we started writing, [Strange] knows firsthand the dangers of screwing with these things. Then we changed it so he was a person who doesn’t know that much about the multiverse. But that makes it even more frightening, to start fooling around with these things, because it’s the fear of the unknown."

This is actually a really interesting detail, because what if certain remnants of that original, post-Doctor Strange 2 script survived into the finished version of No Way Home? Does Strange come out of his sequel unscathed and unchanged, like we see in No Way Home? Does Wanda die in Multiverse Of Madness, considering that she isn't mentioned in No Way Home? Are we reading too much into this? Probably.

Either way, it just goes to show how complicated it is running a cinematic universe - if one thing changes, everything else has to change around it.