'This is a New Chapter' — Spider-Man: Brand New Day Features a 'Tonal Shift' From Tom Holland's First Trilogy

Tom Holland's instrumentality successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day volition diagnostic a "tonal shift" from the actors' archetypal trilogy, manager Destin Daniel Cretton has said.

This year's long-awaited caller Spider-Man film, Holland's fourth, volition prime up immoderate clip aft the events of 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home, with Peter Parker's concealed individuality forgotten by the wider satellite — separating him from past woman MJ (Zendaya) and champion person Ned (Jacob Batalon). At the aforesaid time, Holland volition person to woody with a caller menace and squad up with gun-toting Marvel TV enactment leader Frank Castle/The Punisher (Jon Bernthal).

Discussing the movie with ComicBook this week, Cretton said helium had been "really excited" to instrumentality connected this adjacent section of Tom Holland's Spider-Man communicative arsenic determination was statement among Marvel brag Kevin Feige, Sony exec Amy Pascal, and Holland himself "to bash thing different."

"Of people it's inactive the Spider-Man that everybody loves," Cretton said. "But this is simply a caller section successful his life, and that tonal displacement was thing that was truly breathtaking to maine and felt truly different. It was an highly gratifying experience."

In the past, Feige has mentioned that Brand New Day volition clasp the franchise's accustomed movie standing — there's nary proposition that Tom Holland's Spider-Man is abruptly getting the R-movie attraction akin to Deadpool & Wolverine — meaning that Frank Castle's lethal antics would person to acceptable in.

Still, Cretton seems to beryllium suggesting present that Brand New Day volition diagnostic a much mature code — possibly by the precise quality of Holland's Spider-Man nary longer being a student, and forced to fend for himself without his Aunt May.

Officially, small is known of Spider-Man: Brand New Day's story, which Marvel and Sony person attempted to support nether wraps arsenic overmuch arsenic possible. Indeed, Stranger Things histrion Sadie Sink has said she's been kept wrapped up successful a ample overgarment "like a penguin" to fell her costume from fans during shooting, truthful mysterious is her role.

That said, we bash cognize that Mark Ruffalo volition beryllium backmost arsenic Bruce Banner/The Hulk successful the movie, portion Better Call Saul's Michael Mando volition reprise his relation arsenic Scorpion. A large enactment series was antecedently filmed successful the Scottish metropolis of Glasgow, lasting successful for New York, which saw Holland riding astir connected apical of a tank.

With 4 trailers (that aren't really trailers) already released for this December's Avengers: Doomsday, fans are hoping to spot thing much of Spider-Man: Brand New Day soon — up of its motorboat successful theaters connected July 31. Just earlier Christmas, what appeared to beryllium grainy footage of an upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer deed the internet, featuring dialog that positioned Sink's quality arsenic a villain — initially, astatine least.

"You're a mess, Spider-Man," Sink's unnamed quality tin beryllium heard to say. "Don't get successful my way. Otherwise, it won't conscionable beryllium your friends who don't retrieve who Peter Parker is." Plenty of speculation exists astir who Sink whitethorn beryllium playing, though possibly our biggest hint is the study that her quality volition beryllium returning for Avengers: Secret Wars, thing that rules retired her being a one-and-done villain.

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