It’s official: A fourth Spider-Man movie starring Tom Holland as Marvel’s Pleasant Neighborhood Wall-Crawler is coming to theaters.
Sony introduced that the newest movie within the franchise will premiere in the summertime of 2026. The film can be directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, who beforehand made Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Just like the earlier three Spider-Man movies — Homecoming, Far From Dwelling, and No Method Dwelling — the movie is a co-production with Marvel and Marvel Studios and is ready throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe. (The movie is technically a part of Part Six of the MCU.)
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If that timeline holds, that can make the summer time of 2026 into the summer time of 2027 probably the most consequential yr within the historical past of the MCU since 2019. The primary of two Avengers sequels, Doomsday — that includes Robert Downey Jr. as Physician Doom — premieres on Might 1, 2026, just a little underneath two months earlier than Spider-Man 4. Its sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars, follows it on Might 7, 2027.
Meaning Spider-Man 4 will debut between the 2 movies — and if Doomsday ends on any form of cliffhanger, Spider-Man should take it into consideration. There are methods round that in fact — Captain Marvel appeared between Avengers: Infinity Conflict and Avengers: Endgame — and most of it was a interval piece, with solely its post-credits scene going down within the current and dressing Thanos’ destruction of half the universe. How precisely Spider-Man 4 suits into these two motion pictures, which have the potential to utterly reshape the MCU, can be fascinating to look at.
The plot of the brand new movie is unknown. Throughout a current interview, Holland stated he had already seen a draft of the script, which “nonetheless wants work” whereas including that “the writers are doing an ideal job” on the venture.
Spider-Man 4 is at present scheduled for launch in theaters on July 24, 2026.
Holland will return as Marvel’s Pleasant Neighborhood Internet-Slinger.
