By Mallory Mattingly
Over the weekend, SPIDER-MAN star Tom Holland released a video for the highly anticipated fourth movie in his franchise, SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY.
“Are you ready? – 7.31.2026,” he wrote on Instagram. The post featured a video of the actor warming up in his Spidey suit.
Shortly after, Holland shared several photos from filming.
“Spider-Man Brand New Day 1,” he wrote.
Holland shared two photos featuring Spider-Man on top of what appears to be a tank. He is attached to a cable of some sort, indicating the crew began filming with an action-packed scene.
We don’t know much about the plot of Holland’s fourth installment as the titular hero. But, its director, Destin Daniel Cretton, might have given fans a clue “about some of the bad guys that Tom Holland’s webslinger will do battle with,” according to Tech Radar.
On July 29, the Cosmic Marvel X account shared, “Destin Daniel Cretton’s assistant has shared a new post on Instagram featuring multiple Spider-Man comic covers. Kevin Feige previously said that Destin will be bringing multiple comic covers to life in SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY”
The two comic books featured in the post were 1974’s “The Amazing Spider-Man #134” and 1991’s “The Amazing Spider-Man #345.” In those comics, Spider-Man battles Tarantula and Boomerang.
And while it isn’t confirmed that those villains will appear in BRAND NEW DAY, Marvel president Kevin Feige’s recent comments with Collider hinted to the possibility.
He said that Cretton has “eight or nine comic covers up on his wall in his art department that he is bringing to life in this movie, which is super cool.”
Fans speculate that that means Cretton is taking inspiration from the comics shared in his assistant’s post for the upcoming movie.
Boomerang was previously linked to BRAND NEW DAY in May when he was reportedly one of three villains to feature in the movie, “with the others being Tombstone and Scorpion.”
“If Tarantula is set to join that contingent, alongside other rumored Spider-Man antagonists like Mister Negative, it could be that some of them only have minor roles to play in proceedings. Alternatively, Marvel might be building out a prototype roster of The Sinister Six, i.e., the title bestowed on a group of supervillains who team up to take down the iconic webhead in Marvel literature,” Tech Radar said.
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY will release next summer, and Holland is ready. Are you?
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