{"id":61637,"date":"2025-08-12T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61637\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:59:07","slug":"brand-new-days-ned-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61637\/","title":{"rendered":"Brand New Day\u2019s Ned Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacob Batalon has sparked renewed speculation about his role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day after posting a photo with a villain-themed action figure. The image quickly spread on social media, prompting fresh theories about his MCU character. The buzz comes as the film moves forward without confirmed casting details from Marvel Studios.<\/p>\n

Jacob Batalon teases Hobgoblin amid Spider-Man: Brand New Day filming<\/p>\n

Jacob Batalon shared an image of himself holding a Hobgoblin action figure in what appears to be a toy store. The post, shared on Instagram Stories and tagged with his handle @lifeisaloha, shows Batalon posing with the figure. It is from Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man toy line.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo Credit: @lifeisaloha \/ Instagram<\/p>\n

The image circulated on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), where user @MyTimeToShineHello posted<\/a> it with the caption \u201c#SpiderManBrandNewDay ? ?\u201d on August 12, 2025, garnering over 1.4 million views.<\/p>\n

Batalon portrayed Ned Leeds in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). In Marvel Comics, Ned Leeds is depicted as the supervillain Hobgoblin. This has fueled recurring fan theories that Batalon\u2019s character could follow a similar path on screen.<\/p>\n

In a May 2024 interview with CBR<\/a> while promoting his horror film Tarot, Batalon addressed ongoing rumors about a fourth Tom Holland-led Spider-Man film and whether Ned Leeds could become Hobgoblin. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m open to anything, and I think we all are open to anything,\u201d Batalon said. \u201cUnless you\u2019re like a superhero, like big time, one of the main ones they\u2019re trying to make movies about, you don\u2019t really know what\u2019s going to happen\u2026 I would hopefully [return]. I\u2019m down for anything. I would love to be a part of something special again.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the subject of becoming Hobgoblin, Batalon said, \u201cHonestly, I\u2019m not sure. Again, we may have talked about things, for sure, but I don\u2019t know if it would\u2019ve really led to anything serious about being a villain, or anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, Marvel Studios had not confirmed any casting for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Batalon\u2019s Instagram post was his first public reference to Hobgoblin during the film\u2019s reported production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Batalon has sparked renewed speculation about his role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day after posting a photo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,949,33025,5396,7468,2839,19799,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-61637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-news","tag-jacob-batalon","tag-marvel","tag-mcu","tag-movies","tag-spider-man-brand-new-day","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}