After recently telling ComicBook exclusively that J Jonah Jameson won’t be back in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, JK Simmons has explained a key detail about his only MCU appearance to date. The Marvel movie legend, who of course played the foghorn editor of The Daily Bugle in Sam Raimi’s trilogy of Spider-Man movies in the early 2000s sat out the Amazing Spider-Man reboot, but returned to hugely positive fan reactions in Spider-Man: Far From Home‘s credits scene. He was a new Jameson, though, reimagined as a firebrand podcast host in the vein of Alex Jones, which was a smart update, given the slow death of print media, and he was given a new look that swapped his patented flat-top haircut with Simmons’ natural bald look.
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In a new interview with Josh Horowitz for Happy, Sad, Confused, Simmons revealed that the reason the iconic Spider-Man antagonist doesn’t have his trademark haircut in Far From Home was that Jameson was only added to the movie last minute in the edit: “When the third iteration… came along to do the little sort of cameo reprise, that was a complete shock and a very last-minute decision. Which I still think is why JJJ doesn’t have hair in the Tom Holland Spider-Man universe, because they literally called my agent, we had a meeting the next day, and it was like a day or two later I was shooting in, in somebody’s office. Some executive’s office on the lot, because there was no set, there was no, there was like… they were well into editing the film when they went, “What if we stuck a little JJJ in here?””
JK Simmons Reveals More About His J Jonah Jameson History
Back in 2012, The Amazing Spider-Man sent Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker back to school, so it was understandable that we weren’t given a new J Jonah Jameson, but in the sequel, despite Peter selling photos of Spider-Man to the Daily Bugle, he’s still a no-show. He was, however, an eye-catching presence in the film’s online marketing campaign ahead of release, as J Jonah Jameson published editorials online (via Tumblr of all things) to speak out about Spider-Man as a “suspicious vigilante.” J Jonah Jameson was, inevitably linked to playing the character again, but he’s also just offiically revealed that he was never in line for a return at that point. He told Horowitz that the only discussions he had about a potential return were when people sent him online rumors.
Eventually, the MCU did the right thing, though it’s strange that he’s sitting out Spider-Man: Brand New Day, given Spider-Man continues to be a “menace” and an unknown villain is wreaking havoc on New York. With Peter Parker’s identity wiped from everyone’s memory, you’d think Jameson’s campaign against masked vigilantes would kick back into action. But if Simmons is to be believed, Jameson won’t appear, robbing the actor of a chance to finally meet Peter Parker himself. Yes, that’s right, despite being in two movies with him, Simmons has revealed that he’s never actually met Tom Holland:
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