John Campea, the pop-culture commentator who shared viral pictures that showed Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire uniting on screen in leaked pictures from Spider-Man: No Way Home has clarified that the pictures he posted were put up under the assumption that they were fake and hence he shared them with his watermark. However, he said that he got a call after five minutes, saying that the pictures were ‘probably real’ and that prompted him to delete them but by then they had already gone viral on the internet.
In a new video posted on his YouTube channel, Campea said that he was sent the pictures by an anonymous source and since he thought they were ‘clearly photoshopped’ he had shared them on Twitter. He said, “This was not a PR stunt...A studio rep has talked to me and asked me to reveal who sent them to me. And while I'm not happy about what has transpired, I'm not giving up the person that sent it to me. I may not be happy about it but I'm not gonna give up the source. You guys know that I get a bunch of stuff and pictures sent to me all the time... Last night, I get an email from somebody sending me pictures that says, 'Oh this is from Spider-Man: No Way Home'. And they are never real... Somebody sends it to me and I look at the pictures with three Spider-Men in it and I say, ‘Well this is clearly photoshopped’...The person who sent it to me said, 'Don't mention it was me' so I pop it on my Twitter and I put my watermark on it...By the way, there were more pictures, I want to say four."
Apparently, New leaked photos of #SpiderManNoWayHome, Looks legit to me. pic.twitter.com/QcefcHq7qI
— Spider-Man NWH Updates and Leaks (@Spider_Leaks) November 9, 2021
He continued, "So I post these pictures and five minutes later I get this call from somebody, I won't say who, saying that ya these pictures probably real. I'm like 'Are you sure?' And like 'I don't know 100% for sure but I'm pretty comfortable saying that these are most likely real'. And I'm like 'Well s***'. So I immediately jump back on Twitter again only five minutes have passed and I delete them immediately. I obviously didn't share the other two pictures. And the other two pictures are the more juicy ones, that's all I'm going to say...When I delete it almost nobody had seen it they had like a hundred likes on it."
He further said, “I was talking to a studio rep today and they basically said to me 'I assume you thought these things were fake because you put your watermark on it. I don’t expect that you would try to steal the Mona Lisa and leave your business card behind for the cops to find you'. I'm like 'Yes if I thought they were real and I was going to share them online I would absolutely not put my watermark on it.”
I mean... shit... you should see the images I DIDN'T post. On today's show: Lucasfilm postpones Rogue Squadron. Dean Stockwell passes away. Reynolds comments on Deadpool 3 progress. DiCaprio in Jonestown movie... and something about Spider-Man pics. https://t.co/1lTeJk4Ond
— John Campea (@johncampea) November 9, 2021
He further said, “You guys know I have a great relationship with studios, and I would never do anything to risk that, especially not for some cheap Twitter post...The reality is if these pictures end up being real–and I don’t know if they are, to be honest—but if they do end up being real, and let's say if Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield do end up being in the movie, and they don’t show Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield in a trailer soon, I’m going to feel terrible about this.”
TOM HOLLAND in an interview today with Total Film:
“People don’t believe me when I say that [Maguire and Garfield] are not coming back. But people are going to have to believe me at some point.”
— John Campea (@johncampea) November 10, 2021
He also quoted Tobey from an interview where he negated Garfield’s and Maguire’s presence in the film. Spider-Man: No Way Home also stars Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jamie Foxx and Jacob Batalon. The film will be released on December 17 exclusively in theatres.
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