Tom Holland might not be technically attached to the staggering cast of Avengers: Doomsday – if only for the time being, at least – but the lad Spider-Man will certainly be reprising his cinematic role next year.
On Monday, it was announced that his fourth Spider-Man as the popular Marvel superhero will boast a new title: Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and it will arrive on July 31, 2026. The news was delivered at CinemaCon, an annual convention for theater exhibitors and studios, where director Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) made the announcement. Holland, who is working on another production, filmed a video message from "around the world" to celebrate the special day. Holland called the new movie "a new beginning" for Peter Parker, after the emotional giving up of his secret identity in order to save his friends in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Production on Brand New Day will get underway this summer, and Cretton expressed some of the anticipation about the film in pre-production. "Each day, we're geeking out on the suit, how to swing, how to make an emotional tale and a ride we haven't experienced previously," Cretton divulged.
The director also shared a humorous personal anecdote about his one-year-old son, whose first word was "Spider-Man" – or "Minah-Man" in baby speak – after seeing a Spider-Man comic book on Cretton's side table. "It's a little bit like early brainwashing, but there is something about this character," Cretton said, talking about how Peter Parker's "messy humanity" attracted him to the character. "It made me think the hero under the mask wasn't that different from me."
Holland initially appeared as teen Peter Parker in 2016's Captain America: Civil War, with Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther. He went on to lead a trilogy of Spider-Man movies: Homecoming (2017), Far From Home (2019), and No Way Home (2021), and also in Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.
In other Spider-gleanings, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the third and final installment of the animated Spider-Verse trilogy, also got a release date: June 4, 2027. The movie will once more star Shameik Moore as Brooklyn high schooler Miles Morales and Hailee Steinfeld as Gwen Stacy, aka Spider-Gwen, Miles' friend from another dimension. The original Spider-Verse movie, Into the Spider-Verse (2018), took home an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and its sequel, Across the Spider-Verse, was one of the highest-grossing movies in 2023.
Filmmaker Phil Lord hinted that Beyond will again "push the limits of animation," continuing where Across the Spider-Verse left off, with a cliffhanger ending as Miles confronts an alternate version of himself as the supervillain Prowler (voiced by Jharrel Jerome). Lord also introduced a first look at the film, featuring an animated montage of Miles battling Prowler, The Spot (Jason Schwartzman) causing chaos, and Miles reuniting with Gwen, accompanied by a voiceover from Miles: “Everybody keeps trying to tell me how my story will go. I’m going to do my own thing.”
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