Whereas rumors persist on whether or not or not Tom Holland would be the subsequent actor to tackle James Bond, he’s returning to the function that made his a family identify — revealing the total, more-traditional-looking costume for subsequent yr’s “Spider-Man: Model New Day” in an August 2 teaser video posted to his Instagram.
Within the clip, giant elephant doorways open up in a naked sound stage, revealing the silhouette of Holland, who jogs towards the digicam, stopping as the sunshine hits him in his Spidey go well with — one which resembles that of the unique Marvel comedian books. He says, seemingly to the film’s not-pictured crew, “We prepared?” Then he dashes out of body.
The put up additionally lists the discharge date, July 31, 2026 (introduced in March) — which can place it hitting theaters almost 5 years after the fourth Holland-led Spider-Man flick was launched in December 2021, “Spider-Man: No Approach Residence.” That one famously webbed collectively the whole thing of Sony’s “Spider-Man” output, with a multiverse plot that introduced again Tobey McGuire and Andrew Garfield’s variations of Peter Parker. That film was a monster hit — I imply, actually monstrous, grossing almost $2 billion worldwide.
Since then, nevertheless, there was a lot ado about what to do with Spider-Man, as Sony debated precisely methods to make the most of the character — which the corporate has to maintain utilizing with a view to retain the display screen rights. In response to Forbes, the studio has to “as a common rule” have began a brand new Spider-Man manufacturing inside 3 years and 9 months of the final Spider-Man film’s launch, and not more than 5 years and 9 months can lapse between Spider-Man releases.
In fact, different Spidey associated properties have been launched since then — together with the much-maligned “Madame Net” in 2024 and the a lot, a lot, a lot better-received animated 2023 movie “Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse,” which was nominated for Greatest Animated Function on the Oscars and had its personal spectacular field workplace run. Between these initiatives, Sony actually hasn’t been sleeping on maintaining its rights intact.
Holland, in the meantime, has been busy since his final foray into superhero fare. Bond rumors apart, he’ll lead — alongside Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, fellow “Spider-Man” co-star and girlfriend Zendaya, and a bunch of different stars — the extremely anticipated Christopher Nolan movie “The Odyssey,” based mostly on the famed Homer story. On working with the “Oppenheimer” director, Holland advised GQ Sports activities it was “the perfect expertise I’ve had on the movie set. Unimaginable. It was thrilling. It was totally different. And I feel the film goes to be not like something we’ve ever seen.”
That film will hit broad launch on July 17, 2026, simply two weeks earlier than Holland slings into theaters as Peter Parker as soon as once more on July 31, 2026… which might make Holland subsequent summer time’s Pedro Pascal.
However as for Bond, Holland advised Gordon Ramsey, “Pay attention, there’s hypothesis on the minute. We’ll hold it to a minimal for now. We’ll get there sooner or later.”