The Cosmic Watchdog

Almost four years ago, Spider-Man: No Way Home stormed the box office, making almost $2 billion worldwide and becoming Sony’s biggest film ever.

Now Tom Holland is back in Spider-Man 4, which will be released after Robert Downey Jr’s return as Doctor Doom in Avengers Doomsday.

Announced at the Sony panel during Cinema Con in Las Vegas last night (this is no April Fool), the new MCU movie will be titled Spider-Man: Brand New Day with Shang-Chi’s Destin Daniel Cretton directing.

Holland himself teased of his Marvel return: “I know we left you with a massive cliffhanger at the end of No Way Home… so Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a fresh start… It is exactly that. That’s all I can say.”

Brand New Day is a Spider-Man comic book storyline set after the world has forgotten him. That fits perfectly as No Way Home concluded with everybody forgetting who Peter Parker is, including MJ, so presumably, Holland’s Spidey will be finding a way to restore her memory. It’s also speculated that a new trilogy of Spider-Man movies will follow him in his college years and include the introduction of a live-action Miles Morales. Avengers: Doomsday, which sees Robert Downey Jr return to the MCU, but this time as Doctor Doom, currently does not include Holland in the mammoth cast featuring the Thunderbolts, Fantastic Four and the original X-Men. Presumably, that’s because the crossover event hits cinemas on May 1, 2026, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day follows on July 31, 2026.

Back in 2018, Paul Rudd didn’t feature in Avengers Infinity War as he had Ant-Man and the Wasp released just a couple of months later. The latter movie was set before the events of the Thanos blockbuster, so perhaps Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be the same. We expect this new Spidey movie to be a more grounded, sunny film like Ant-Man 2, so don’t expect Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield until the multiverse crossover Avengers Secret Wars in May 2027.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits cinemas on July 31, 2026.