{"id":545436,"date":"2026-03-18T22:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545436\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:32:19","slug":"breaking-down-the-secrets-of-the-spider-man-brand-new-day-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545436\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down the Secrets of the ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, Sony and Marvel gave us our first proper look<\/a> at\u00a0Spider-Man: Brand New Day (after a whole day\u2019s worth of lots of\u00a0incredibly small glimpses<\/a>), lifting the lid on a whole new era for the MCU\u2019s take on Peter Parker. There were plenty of familiar faces from across the MCU, and also some big hints as to some of the comic book influences the movie might be taking on. Let\u2019s break it all down, shall we?<\/p>\n

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The trailer opens with Peter Parker (Tom Holland) glum and upside down, watching social media videos on his phone. Not just any videos, though: ones of his former friends, Ned (Jacob Batalon) and MJ (Zendaya), as they celebrate their first day at MIT. Of course, you\u2019ll remember that at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/a>, Peter implored Doctor Strange to cast a spell that would erase all knowledge of his secret identity being exposed in the climax of\u00a0Far From Home\u2014which also meant that even his closest friends wouldn\u2019t know who he is. Womp womp.<\/p>\n

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Peter promptly jumps off the girder he was doomscrolling from, but not because of the depression, because it looks like he\u2019s gone all-in on being Spider-Man now that he doesn\u2019t have to worry about those pesky social connections (he\u2019s going to worry about them, though, because he\u2019s Peter Parker). Masked up, and wearing a new but very similar suit<\/a> to the one we saw him in the final moments of\u00a0No Way Home, he plummets down towards the city.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve known from the recent leak<\/a> of a synopsis from the film\u2019s official artbook\u2014and now confirmed by a new synopsis for the film released by Sony today\u2014that four years have passed since the events of No Way Home, but perhaps the clearest thing in this trailer is that Peter\u2019s anguish about losing his friends is going to be a driving factor of this film. We see Peter mulling over a note he\u2019s written to potentially talk to either Ned or MJ revealing their past connection, following them around the city, which we start hearing in his narration too: \u201cHi! My name is Peter Parker. You don\u2019t remember me, but we used to know each other. Something bad was going to happen, and the only way to stop was to make everyone forget about me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As this narration plays out, we see Ned and MJ sitting in their apartment watching a news broadcast as Spider-Man is awarded the key to New York City. Said key (which we see Peter fiddling with in his own apartment, waiting for his suit to be done in the washing machine) is handed to him by an unidentified female government official. Typically, it would be the mayor of the city who does this kind of thing, and as we know circa Daredevil: Born Again, Wilson Fisk was our most recently known inheritor of the office.<\/p>\n

We have had hints that\u00a0Born Again\u2018s second season, which conveniently kicks off next week, will have some connections<\/a> to\u00a0Brand New Day. Probably don\u2019t expect a cameo from Matt Murdock himself again, as he did in\u00a0No Way Home, but it\u2019ll probably give us an answer as to another factoid we already know: Vincent D\u2019Onofrio\u2019s Fisk is definitely not in this movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBecause I\u2019m not just Peter Parker,\u201d Pete\u2019s narration continues. \u201cI\u2019m\u00a0Spider-Man.\u201d We cut to an action sequence we\u2019ve seen hinted at since Brand New Day started filming last year<\/a>, as Spidey swings into action during an armored car chase. Miniguns, explosions, our hero being violently slammed into cars, it has it all!<\/p>\n

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Speaking of our hero being violently slammed into motor vehicles, we comedically cut to Spider-Man being bowled clean over by a large black van\u2026 driven by Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal, reprising the role<\/a> from\u00a0Daredevil and the wider former-Netflix-Defenders oeuvre). Fun fact: this is the first time that a live-action adaptation of the Punisher has actually given him his Battle Van from the comics. It\u2019s a mobile base of command chock full of guns that has appeared in various iterations in the comics since the concept was first introduced in 1975\u2019s Giant-Sized Spider-Man #4.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s clear that Peter and Frank already have something of a rapport, even if that rapport involves Frank still trying to shoot a grenade launcher right into Pete\u2019s chest. We see that Frank is involved in this big chase sequence, as Spider-Man takes him out with a web-enhanced kick clean through the Battle Van\u2019s windshield. Befitting his background from the more maturely rated corners of the wider Marvel universe, he even gets off a cheeky \u201cMotherf-\u201d before Spidey censors him. Not in this movie, Frank, there\u2019s kids watching!<\/p>\n

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We cut away from the action to see Peter skulking about at a party, which is happening in none other than MJ and Ned\u2019s apartment. \u201cBut sometimes Spider-Man has to do the hard thing, even if it breaks Peter Parker\u2019s heart,\u201d his narration continues, as Peter mournfully stares over at his old friends, and we get a very interesting shot.<\/p>\n

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MJ is being flirted with\u2026 by\u00a0Ahsoka\u2018s Ezra Bridger!? Well,\u00a0Star Wars live-action star<\/a> Eman Esfandi, the MCU multiverse is probably not that crazy yet. It\u2019s clear, however, that this isn\u2019t a first-time encounter, as the two are very familiar with each other. MJ has had plenty of non-Peter romantic interests in the comics, especially in the aftermath of their on-again, off-again status<\/a> ever since their marriage was controversially retconned out of existence in the infamous \u201cOne More Day\u201d<\/a> storyline.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s every unhinged possibility that Efsandi is playing some version of Paul Rabin\u2014arguably one of the most unpopular comics characters Marvel has created this century. He was introduced in 2022 as the son of a mysterious villain known as the Emissary Peter was wrangling with at the time, through multiversal time dilation silliness. MJ spent four years with Paul trapped in another universe, adopting two children and putting the kibosh on Peter and MJ\u2019s relationship together once more. After the whole deal with the Emissary was resolved, Paul stuck around as a major supporting character in the comics, helping MJ in her fledgling vigilante career before she became the host of the Venom symbiote. They broke up, to\u00a0much rejoicing<\/a>, last year.<\/p>\n

It would be\u00a0very funny if Esfandi was playing Paul, there\u2019s another potentially interesting candidate given the collegiate trappings of Brand New Day: what if he\u2019s the MCU\u2019s take on Harry Osborn, paving the way for an eventual debut of his father Norman at some point? Yes, we had Willem Dafoe\u2019s iconic portrayal<\/a> be a major part of\u00a0No Way Home, but the MCU\u2019s primary timeline has yet to give us its own take on one of the most iconic Spidey characters from the books yet.<\/p>\n

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Peter returns to his own apartment looking decidedly worse for wear and collapses to the floor, and we cut to him waking up wearing nothing but his boxers and suddenly webbed up in a cocoon outside his apartment window. A cocoon he promptly falls out of, which is not great as again, Peter is not wearing anything but something to protect a shred of his dignity, and that includes his web shooters\u2026<\/p>\n

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Which is suddenly\u00a0not a problem, because he reflexively thwips up to stop himself, and\u00a0does so. This is a clear indication that the MCU Peter is now going to have organic webbing as part of his power kit getting a major overhaul. Ironically, organic webbing was first introduced in Sam Raimi\u2019s 2002\u00a0Spider-Man adaptation<\/a>\u2014which proved so popular that Marvel Comics copied the idea for some early movie-comic synergy<\/a>, giving comics Peter organic webbing in a 2004 storyline<\/a>, after a kiss from the villainess known as the Queen mutated his powers. Funnily enough, after the events of \u201cOne More Day\u201d in the comics, Peter lost the organic webs again, among other tweaks to his powers, reverting back to using web shooters.<\/p>\n

But the combination of Peter having what definitely seems like a stress-induced power change and the emergence from a cocoon seems to hint that Brand New Day is taking on inspiration from another major comics storyline. There have been several\u00a0Spider-Man stories where Peter has undergone some sort of power mutation at a not-great time in his personal life. The Six Arms Saga in 1971 for example, which introduced Morbius the Living Vampire, saw a dejected Peter actively attempt to cure himself of his powers, only to, well, accidentally give himself another four arms, as the storyline name suggests. The storyline was also loosely adapted for the second season of the \u201990s\u00a0Spider-Man animated series, \u201cNeogenic Nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the cocoon itself plays a role in a more prominent story that is likely the source of the inspiration here: \u201cThe Other,\u201d a mid-aughts arc that likewise sees a stressed Peter experience fluctuations in his powers changing and facing seeming death. After an apparently fatal encounter with Morlun\u2014the spider-hunting, energy-sucking multiversal head of the family known as the Inheritors, who become a major threat in the first\u00a0Spider-Verse crossover<\/a>\u2014Peter finds himself undergoing a mystical rebirth, shedding his old body and re-emerging from a giant webbing cocoon on the Brooklyn Bridge.<\/p>\n

Having learned his greater connection to spider-based cosmic forces and his supernatural connection to a giant spider deity, the titular Other in the process, embracing his totemic spider aspect along the way. Peter gets a bit of an overall upgrade to his usual powers in the story (he already had organic webbing at the time), as well as several new ones, including night vision, the ability to sense vibrations through his webs, and wrist-mounted stingers.<\/p>\n

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Back to the trailer. Peter goes to school for some surreptitious help with his changes\u2014we see him wearing a hoodie with the logo of Empire State University on it, Peter\u2019s higher-education place of choice in the comics. But there, he finds another old friend who doesn\u2019t recognize him in the form of Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), who is doing less hulking out these days and more professorial duties.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf DNA is mutating, that would be enormously dangerous,\u201d Bruce tells Peter, as we cut through a montage of Peter facing several changes to his powers\u2014dazed by his heightened senses, his apartment plastered with webbing, and him overshooting a websling with new strength and agility, smashing into a water tower at high velocity. Ouch!<\/p>\n

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We cut to Peter laying flowers in the rain at Aunt May\u2019s grave, which dates her death and\u00a0No Way Home at a nebulous point in 2024, making\u00a0Brand New Day set sometime in 2028. The quote on her tombstone\u2014\u201dWhen you help someone, you help everyone\u201d\u2014also appeared on it in that movie, and is a direct reference to the 2018 Insomniac game<\/a>, Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man, where May used the quote and had it engraved on her tombstone when she died during its climax.<\/p>\n

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Over a montage of explosive action, we hear a very surprising voice enter the trailer\u2019s narration: acting legend Keith David! We don\u2019t know who he\u2019s playing, but it\u2019s clear he has some understanding of what\u2019s happening to Peter. \u201cSpiders have three life cycles,\u201d David\u2019s narration begins. \u201cWhen between cycles, it can leave the spider vulnerable to threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

During this, we see what appears to be the climax of the earlier armored truck chase scene\u2014Peter confronts the crashed truck alongside several armed guards after it seemingly crashes into a prison facility (we see facility officers and what appear to be prisoners react to the explosion outside, and the interior definitely looks like prison cells), only to discover whoever was inside it was a disoriented older woman. Only, her face changes, and suddenly twists, as if some sort of possessive spirit flies out of it, first into one of the armed guards behind Spidey, who fixes him with a smirk before the spirit jumps up to someone on the gantry above them.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are faced with a danger that we can\u2019t control,\u201d a new voice entering the narration says, before it\u2019s revealed to be Tramell Tillman\u2019s mystery new character<\/a>. \u201cOne we can\u2019t even see.\u201d There\u2019s been rumors that Tillman\u2019s role leans more towards the villainous side of things, but at least in this moment, he appears to be working with Spider-Man to figure out what this posessive force is.<\/p>\n

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We then cut to what could be a hint of that force: a hooded figure raising their arms in a challenge in front of an array of computer screens and technology in what looks like an otherwise run-down apartment. Considering we don\u2019t see her elsewhere in the trailer, there\u2019s a decent chance that this is the mystery character played by\u00a0Stranger Things star Sadie Sink.<\/p>\n

There has been tons of speculation<\/a>\u2014mostly because she has red hair\u2014that Sink is heralding the MCU\u2019s impending arrival of the X-Men, and playing some form of Jean Grey, the powerful psionic mutant and inheritor of the Phoenix Force.\u00a0If (and it\u2019s a big if; Sink has tried to deny the rumor at every turn<\/a>) this is some version of Jean, it seems like a big change, especially if, as it appears here, they have a villainous streak. Jean\u00a0can also use her omega-level powers to psychically control other people\u2019s minds, if this figure is connected to the possession we saw (the trailer definitely wants you to think that, but it could be an editing misdirection).<\/p>\n

Those remain big ifs, and we don\u2019t get any answers in this footage. Earlier rumors have suggested that Sink\u2019s character retains knowledge of Peter\u2019s true identity, so villain or otherwise, she\u2019s either someone who was immune to Strange\u2019s spell, or comes from another part of the multiverse and was not affected when it was cast. Whoever she is, she\u2019s bigger than just Spider-Man: Sink will appear in the\u00a0Doomsday sequel\u00a0Avengers: Secret Wars, so she\u2019s definitely going to have a long game at play here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As the trailer starts climaxing, we get our first look at another returning villain: Michael Mando as Mac Gargan, aka the Scorpion. Mando appeared briefly in Spider-Man: Homecoming\u2018s mid-credits scene, where he encountered the Vulture locked up in prison. Now he actually gets to be the Scorpion and fight Spider-Man! If what we saw with the armored truck earlier leads to a prison break, there\u2019s a possibility he escapes during it. We know a few more villains<\/a> are in the movie too beyond him, including Tombstone (played by Marvin Jones III, who voiced the character in\u00a0Into the Spider-Verse), and Boomerang, a frequent low-level foe of Spidey\u2019s from the comics.<\/p>\n

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After we get a brief shot of Frank telling Spidey that he\u2019s losing it, we get another interesting tease: MJ and Spider-Man, face to face. Will she re-learn who he is beneath the mask by the end of this movie? What ramifications will that have, will their relationship start all over or will the memories of her time with Peter come back?<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd for those Spiders who make it through, it amounts to a kind of\u2026\u201d David\u2019s narration continues, as we set up a tantalizing montage of shots. First up is the first teaser we got of the trailer yesterday: Spider-Man swinging through the air with someone slung under his arm, a recreation of the character\u2019s iconic cover debut on\u00a0Amazing Fantasy #15.<\/a><\/p>\n

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We then get antother slow-mo shot of Spidey battling another villain: the aforementioned Boomerang, wearing a very comics-faithful look! This is another comic cover adaptation, this time 1991\u2019s Amazing Spider-Man #345, although Boomerang is wearing his more modern suit.<\/p>\n

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Another shot, on a\u00a0 boat as police officers watch, Peter battles another masked villain with clawed foot blades. This appears to be the MCU\u2019s take on Tarantula, because yes, this is another comics cover Easter egg: it\u2019s a recreation of Amazing Spider-Man #134, Tarantula\u2019s debut issue.<\/p>\n

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Not a comics cover recreation this time, but another surprise comics addition: inside a prison, an unmasked Peter does battle with the red-clad ninjas. These are clearly agents of the Hand, one of Marvel\u2019s premier ninja factions. The Hand previously played a significant role in Netflix\u2019s\u00a0Daredevil TV series and The Defenders crossover, but this marks their film debut for the MCU. Could their return be the major\u00a0Daredevil: Born Again link we\u2019ll see explored in that show\u2019s second season?<\/p>\n

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A brief shot sees Peter\u2019s eyes turn jet-black, before we cut back to the Hand fight and he quickly web-parries an incoming Hand ninja\u2019s sword, shattering it. Clearly, Peter\u2019s powers have had their upgrade here. Are these black eyes related to the night vision he got in \u201cThe Other,\u201d or is it just a reflection of his more animalistic spider-side manifesting?<\/p>\n

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As we climax on another shot of Peter mid-battle with the Hand, David\u2019s character finishes their narration: \u201cRebirth.\u201d If this\u00a0is taking lots of inspiration from \u201cThe Other,\u201d is David playing the MCU\u2019s version of Morlun? Or could he be the Other himself, lending his voice to the spider-god that Peter learns to embrace in his transformation?<\/p>\n

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A final ending gag goes back to Ned and MJ\u2019s apartment party, where MJ compliments Peter for bringing flowers as a housewarming gift. We get a cute \u201cfriendly neighbor\u201d gag to refer to Spidey\u2019s oft-quoted title, but the most interesting thing here: MJ is still wearing the broken black dahlia necklace Peter gifted her in\u00a0Far From Home when they began their romantic relationship. Oof, that\u2019s gotta hurt.<\/p>\n

Overall,\u00a0Brand New Day\u2018s first trailer gives us lots to chew on, but keeps a lot of mysteries close to its chest. While we can infer lots of fun comic book connections here, the overall plot of the film, and how it could set the stage for\u00a0Avengers: Doomsday later this year (Holland will not appear in that film, as far as we currently know, but is likely to have some role in\u00a0Secret Wars), especially given the mysteries surrounding Sadie Sink\u2019s character.<\/p>\n

No doubt we\u2019ll get a few more clues as we get closer and closer to the release of\u00a0Spider-Man: Brand New Day on July 31.<\/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":"This morning, Sony and Marvel gave us our first proper look at\u00a0Spider-Man: Brand New Day (after a whole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,3078,26766,212690],"class_list":["post-545436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-marvel","tag-spider-man-brand-new-day","tag-trailer-breakdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545436","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=545436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}