If you saw the news Tuesday morning you might have thought
it was a bizarre April Fool’s joke, but Sony Pictures wasn’t foolin’ when they
revealed that their anticipated follow-up to smash-hit Spider-Man: No Way
Home would be called Spider-Man: Brand New Day and that it would be
hitting theaters on July 31, 2026.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day 🕷️ July 31, 2026. pic.twitter.com/R6OY8tAHOb
— Spider-Man Movie (@SpiderManMovie) April 1, 2025
The Brand New Day subtitle might be slightly
triggering for longtime Spidey fans, as it references a mostly maligned story arc
that began in 2008. You see, in the comics, Peter Parker’s beloved Aunt May was
shot, and Peter made a pact with the actual Marvel devil – Mephisto if you’re
nasty – in order to keep her alive. In exchange for May’s life, Peter sacrificed
his marriage to Mary Jane Watson. To this day, Peter and MJ’s marriage has yet
to be restored. So, yeah, it’s a bit of a sore spot.
The ”Brand New Day” storyline served as the hardest of soft
reboots for the comic book Web-Slinger, introducing new romances, characters
and villains in a reset continuity. Given the events of No Way Home,
during which Tom Holland’s Peter sacrificed his non-Spidey life to save his
universe, it seems like the MCU could be pushing the character in a similar
clean-slate direction: low-tech suit, street-level storytelling and new
relationships. And this could be a fantastic change of pace, since Holland’s Peter has unfortunately been often overshadowed
by other Avengers and other Spider-Men in his prior MCU outings. With the promise of a more Spidey-centric narrative I’m excited
to see what’s “Brand New” for my favorite superhero in 2026.
In other Wall-Crawler news, Sony’s animated Spider-Man:
Beyond the Spider-Verse, is officially hitting theaters on June 4, 2027.
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