Daniel Richtman<\/a>‘s latest update adds further fuel to the fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n“I hear Marvel wants their own take on the\u00a0Symbiote, whatever that means,” he wrote on X before speculating, “Maybe meaning no Tom Hardy.”<\/p>\n
Holland isn’t expected to appear in Avengers: Doomsday, and if he does, it will likely be just for a cameo. However, he is expected to play a much larger role in Avengers: Secret Wars, and we’re sure you’ll all remember that it was in the original Secret Wars comic that Peter Parker first encountered his alien suit.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Hardy opened up on\u00a0the Spider-Man crossover that never was.\u00a0“I loved playing Eddie in Venom,”\u00a0the actor started.\u00a0“Juggling chainsaws.\u00a0Put me on a unicycle and throw everything at me! I was just really trying to push myself as much as I could.”<\/p>\n
“But I had no Spider-Man! No Avengers! It\u2019s just us. Until those bridges are crossed,”\u00a0he trailed off.\u00a0“That\u2019s way beyond my control. And I\u2019d love to do that, but that\u2019s not even a conversation to have at my level, of just being an actor in that world.”<\/p>\n
Hardy added,\u00a0“That\u2019s the game. We played in the Sony counterpoint to Disney\u2019s Marvel panoply, of which [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige has a huge amount of cards, and Sony has a huge amount of cards in its own right, including Spider-Man, and then there\u2019s just no crossover. We\u2019d love to cross over! That\u2019s not happened. That\u2019s what happens, and it\u2019s one of those things.”<\/p>\n
Spider-Man: Brand New Day\u00a0shares a title with a divisive era of comic book storytelling, which, thanks to a deal with Mephisto to save his dying Aunt May,\u00a0saw the wall-crawler given\u00a0a fresh start when his marriage to\u00a0Mary Jane Watson ended and his identity became secret again. He faced many new sinister foes during that time and was surrounded by a fresh\u00a0supporting cast, including\u00a0Mister Negative, Jackpot, Menace, Carlie Cooper, and Freak.<\/p>\n
In the MCU,\u00a0all signs point to Spidey teaming up with\u2014and at some point fighting\u2014The Punisher to take on a Savage Hulk, with The Scorpion thrown in for good measure. The street-level adventure promises to\u00a0resolve\u00a0a dangling plot thread from 2017’s\u00a0Spider-Man: Homecoming, when Mac Gargan vowed to take revenge on the wall-crawler.<\/p>\n
Several other villains are reportedly set to appear in the movie, including Tombstone, Tarantula, Boomerang, and\u00a0Ramrod. There’s also been some chatter online about the Symbiote factoring into the story, potentially setting the stage for Mac Gargan to don\u00a0the alien costume as Venom (presumably after\u00a0Avengers: Secret Wars).<\/p>\n
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings\u00a0helmer\u00a0Destin Daniel Cretton directs\u00a0Spider-Man: Brand New Day\u00a0from\u00a0a script by returning\u00a0Spider-Man\u00a0franchise writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers.<\/p>\n
Tom Holland plays Spider-Man in a cast that also includes Jon Bernthal (The Punisher), Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk), Zendaya (MJ), Sadie Sink, Michael Mando (The Scorpion), Tramell Tillman, Marvin Jones III (Tombstone), Jacob Batalon (Ned Leeds),\u00a0and Liza Col\u00f3n-Zayas.\u00a0Thunderbolts*\u00a0star Florence Pugh is expected to reprise her\u00a0Thunderbolts*\u00a0role as\u00a0Yelena Belova.<\/p>\n
Spider-Man: Brand New Day\u00a0will be released in theaters on\u00a0July 31, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spider-Man: Brand New Day\u00a0has so far generated even more speculation and excitement than next December’s\u00a0Avengers: Doomsday. The rumour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337,26766],"class_list":["post-301981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-spider-man-brand-new-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}