Tom Holland Returns as Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Brand New Day

“We were all treating [No Way Home] as the end of a franchise, let’s say,” Holland told Entertainment Weekly, even before the movie was out. “I think if we were lucky enough to dive into these characters again, you’d be seeing a very different version. It would no longer be the Homecoming trilogy. We would give it some time and try to build something different and tonally change the films. Whether that happens or not, I don’t know. But we were definitely treating [No Way Home] like it was coming to an end, and it felt like it.”

That makes Brand New Day a particularly appropriate title for this kickoff movie in what could be a new Spider-arc. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the title of a comics storyline that began in 2008, tracking Peter Parker/Spider-Man after the demon Mephisto erased parts of his timeline and he had to start over, effectively with a character reboot. Following the action of No Way Home, which has Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) giving Peter a similar reset, Peter will have to face a world that doesn’t already know him as Spider-Man.

Holland returns to the role of Peter Parker after a windy road through blockbusters and artistic risk. He leveraged his Spider-stardom to turn the long-gestating Uncharted movie into a bona fide hit, but stumbled on more serious projects like the Russo Bros.’ crime drama Cherry and the Apple TV Plus miniseries The Crowded Room. His performance as Romeo in a 2024 West End production of Romeo & Juliet wound up in the news over racist online abuse aimed at Holland’s co-star Francesca Amewudah-Rivers.

Sony’s CinemaCon panel offered few details on Spider-Man 4, apart from the fact that Holland has signed a production deal with Sony, and his production company Billy17, launched in December, will develop several new films for the studio. The first of those projects, Burnt, is set to star Holland, with a script by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse co-writer and co-director Rodney Rothman..