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\n For Tom Holland, Sony’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” based on the famous Marvel Comics web-slinging character, tells a different kind of superhero story \u2014 one centered on vulnerability.\n <\/p>\n
“The movie kind of serves as this cautionary tale about living a life alone, the importance of community, and how sometimes the bravest thing to do in life is to ask for help,” the Odyssey\u00a0actor told Reuters in New York.<\/p>\n
“It’s definitely more grounded; it’s grittier, it’s more emotional, but that doesn’t mean we sacrifice the humor and the fun,” Holland added.<\/p>\n
Directed by Destin Yori Daniel Cretton, the film takes place a few years after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which was directed by Jon Watts.<\/p>\n
In the new installment, Peter Parker grapples with the fallout from a spell cast by fellow superhero Doctor Strange, which caused everyone to forget both his existence and his identity as Spider-Man.<\/p>\n
Among those impacted are Michelle “MJ” Jones-Watson, Peter’s girlfriend, played by Holland’s real-life wife, Zendaya, and his best friend Ned, played by Jacob Batalon. Both characters have no memory of the time they spent with Peter.<\/p>\n
As Spider-Man navigates his new reality, he finds an unlikely ally in the vigilante The Punisher, played by Jon Bernthal, marking a crossover from the Marvel series Daredevil as well as Netflix’s The Punisher.<\/p>\n
Despite a rocky start, the two characters eventually form a bond.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s always interesting when you have two characters who are just trying to push everything away. That’s sort of the opposite of what being a human being is, and sometimes it just sort of takes over, and all of a sudden you find yourself caring about someone you swore you never would,” Bernthal said.<\/p>\n
The Punisher is one of several Marvel characters making appearances in the film. Others include the assassin Yelena Belova, played by Florence Pugh, and Bruce Banner\/The Hulk, played by Mark Ruffalo.<\/p>\n
Despite widespread fan theories, one mystery remains unresolved: the identity of the character portrayed by Stranger Things actor Sadie Sink. Sink said keeping the secret was easy until she had to begin promoting the film.<\/p>\n
“Now that I have to talk about it all day, it is a little bit more difficult than I thought,” she said.<\/p>\n
Cretton, who helmed Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and executive produced Marvel’s Wonder Man, said he hopes audiences will still be surprised by the film’s unexpected moments.<\/p>\n
“Trying to figure out the puzzle beforehand is fun and exhilarating and creates anticipation. But I do hope that people don’t look too hard, because the experience of watching it on the big screen in a room full of people\u2014it’s great to still have a lot of surprises for them,” he said.<\/p>\n
Spider-Man: Brand New Day\u00a0arrives in theatres on July 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP For Tom Holland, Sony’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” based on the famous Marvel Comics web-slinging character, tells…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[225226,225227,114,1120,146,27351,52435,85,46,43,4179,2224,5387,2100],"class_list":["post-552312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-103-8","tag-225227","tag-business","tag-dubai","tag-entertainment","tag-eye","tag-fm","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-sport","tag-station","tag-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}