{"id":164383,"date":"2025-09-23T21:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164383\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T21:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:25:16","slug":"brand-new-day-taps-into-the-spider-verse-tombstone-star-to-leap-into-live-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164383\/","title":{"rendered":"Brand New Day’ Taps ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ Tombstone Star to Leap Into Live-Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

While production is currently paused for Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a>, Sony Pictures is making sure to let us know that the show\u2019s not stopping with even more casting announcements<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/a> villain Tombstone is making his way to Spider-Man: Brand New Day, as Deadline<\/a> reports that Marvin Jones III (Black Lightning) will be reprising the animated role in live-action. Deadline further reports that Jones will purportedly return to voice Tombstone once more in the upcoming Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, having skipped the middle entry in the trilogy, 2023\u2019s Across the Spider-Verse.<\/p>\n

One of many crime bosses in Spider-Man\u2019s rogues gallery, Tombstone is usually depicted as an imposing Black person with albinism; he has sharp chompers and granite-like skin that\u2019s hard to cut. The creation, by writer Gerry Conway and artist Alex Saviuk, first made his Marvel Comics debut in Web of Spider-Man #36 in March 1988, and has been a staple of Spidey\u2019s criminal underworld ever since.<\/p>\n

Given Tombstone\u2019s recent appearance in the Spider-Verse films, there\u2019s no doubt going to be a lot of speculation that Brand New Day could potentially give us the MCU\u2019s own take on Miles. The recent casting of Liza Col\u00f3n-Zayas (The Bear) and Trammel Tillman (Severance) also has left fans wondering if the Morales family in some way will be a presence, and of course, Miles\u2019 uncle Aaron already appeared in\u00a0Spider-Man Homecoming, played by Donald Glover.<\/p>\n

Whether or not we see Miles or any other Spidey-sona in Brand New Day, Jones is joining a stacked cast of familiar faces that includes Jon Bernthal as the Punisher, Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, and Michael Mando returning as\u00a0Homecoming\u2018s version of Scorpion.<\/p>\n

Despite its current production delay,\u00a0Spider-Man: Brand New Day is still currently set to release July 31, 2026.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While production is currently paused for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Sony Pictures is making sure to let us…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,11204,344,34361,108257],"class_list":["post-164383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-marvel-studios","tag-movies","tag-spider-man-brand-new-day","tag-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}