How Sam Raimi Can Bring Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man to the MCU in Doctor Strange 2

https://www.ign.com/articles/how-sam-raimi-can-bring-tobey-maguires-spider-man-to-the-mcu-in-doctor-strange-2

Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy ended on a sour note thanks to Spider-Man 3, and Raimi’s plans for a fourth Spider-Man movie never saw the light of day because Sony decided to reboot the franchise instead, so revisiting that world via this Doctor Strange sequel would give him the chance to properly tie up loose ends.

Raimi himself isn’t a very big fan of Spider-Man 3. In a 2015 interview with Collider he got out his feelings, saying, “It’s a movie that just didn’t work very well. I tried to make it work, but I didn’t really believe in all the characters, so that couldn’t be hidden from people who loved Spider-Man. If the director doesn’t love something, it’s wrong of them to make it when so many other people love it. I think [raising the stakes after Spider-Man 2] was the thinking going into it, and I think that’s what doomed us. I should’ve just stuck with the characters and the relationships and progressed them to the next step and not tried to top the bar.”

Obviously Doctor Strange going on a full-fledged side-adventure with Maguire’s Spidey would detract from the main story, but a lot could be done even with a small cameo. Even if we just get a short scene that shows that everything turned out alright for Peter and Kirsten Dunst’s Mary Jane Watson, it would mean a lot to fans who were left unsatisfied with what went down in Spider-Man 3. Raimi could finally give us a taste of how he would have progressed those character relationships after all these years. His take on Spider-Man is beloved by millions of fans and is remembered for helping kick off the modern superhero movie craze, so if he doesn’t use Doctor Strange’s jaunt through the multiverse as an opportunity to give that world a proper send-off, then that would just be, well, madness.