The recently revealed title of John Watts' third installment of the MCU Spider-Man trilogy had many fans wondering which characters other than Doc Ock, Green Goblin and Electro will appear. While Tobey Maguire's and Andrew Garfield's appearance is confirmed by virtually every insider by now (and has been since Autumn 2020 when filming started), I'd like to tell you about two other characters' appearances that I now secured information about.
I have talked to several VFX artists who worked on Spider-Man: No Way Home. They told me this.
Charlie Cox will appear as Matt Murdock. He will not wear his Daredevil costume but there are two scenes in the movie in which we will see him working as a lawyer. One of these scenes features a practical effect that Marvel then decided to embellish with a little CGI. The second is to feature Matt's super hearing in relation to an unidentified character's sweating during an interrogation.
The other character who will appear is Venom from Sony's Spider-Man Universe. While this was known for a while thanks to the mid-credits scene of Venom: Let There Be Carnage, I'd like to inform you that no Venom scenes were actually animated for this film. The VFX artists did not bring the Venom model into this movie at all. Eddie Brock, played by Tom Hardy, does appear in a cameo which does involve CGI but only for a few seconds. It is likely that the Venom symbiote will make an appearance but the actual monster is not to appear in this movie.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is slated release on December 17, 2021.