The Bodyguard (Spinoff To Spider-Man Wrongfully Accused)

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Well, when I first wrote and published Spider-Man Wrongfully Accused in 2019, it was made during an interesting time. When I was writing that fanfiction, we were smack in the middle of Disney and Sony having a brief falling out which resulted in Spider-Man's future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe being uncertain. I actually thought that we weren't going to get closure on Peter's future after he was framed by Mysterio. I think the fact that we got Spider-Man No Way Home and that it happened is a miracle in of itself. And I'm going to say it, I loved it. I was so shocked when Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield appeared in the third act!

I mean seriously, when I saw the scene, I literally screamed, "NO WAY!!!!" in the theater! I also squealed giddily when Matt Murdock appeared in the movie, with Charlie Cox playing him! I was literally the only one that squealed with excitement in the theater. So as you can tell, I love Spider-Man No Way Home. It somehow found a way to make me appreciate the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies, and found a way to redeem its elements that didn't work. But I digress. After such a great movie like No Way Home, I don't think I could ever do a follow-up to my fanfiction.

But I guess all that changed after I wrote Avengers Eternity and created my OC Jake Phillips Jr. After writing a story with Jake that resulted in a possible romance with Yelena Belova, played wonderfully by Florence Pugh, I wanted to sink my teeth into doing another story with these two. But what kind of story to do? And I thought it would be fun if I did something of a spin-off follow-up to Wrongfully Accused, and I thought, what if Jake witnessed Mysterio sneaking into that old abandoned building hours before the confrontation between Spider-Man, She-Hulk, Daredevil, and Mysterio? It's pretty much the only way I could justify Jake getting Yelena for a bodyguard. And yes, the title is indeed a reference to the 1992 movie of the same name starring the late Whitney Houston. While I wouldn't explicitly say this is a sequel to Spider-Man Wrongfully Accused, as Peter plays a much more supporting role alongside Matt and Jennifer; it is indeed a spiritual follow-up that takes place after Mysterio is arrested but before the three heroes are asked to join The New Avengers. It's definitely a spin-off the same way Frasier is a spin-off to Cheers, or like how Deadpool is a spin-off to the X-Men franchise. Just don't expect Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, or any of the other multiversal villains to show up in my story. But maybe Kraven The Hunter plays a minor role. Just don't expect him to be like Aaron Taylor Johnson in that upcoming movie nobody asked for. Let's treat this like a Marvel movie, so here's the actors playing the characters!

Zach Callison as Jake Phillips Jr.
Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova
Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Jake Gyllenhaal as Quentin Beck/Mysterio
Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock
Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
George Newbern as Jake Phillips Sr.

Zendaya as Michelle "MJ" Jones Watson
Gerard Butler as Kraven The Hunter

Bijou Phillips as Betsy Schneider
Keith David as Judge Dwayne Semper
Michelle Williams as Anne Weying
Bryan Tyree Henry as Officer Jefferson Davis