We’re so back, Spider-Fans.
The first trailer for Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day has arrived, and it looks like the fourth film in this series puts Tom Holland’s Peter Parker through absolute hell. But if you’re a longtime fan of The Webslinger, you’re used to cringing along with our hero as he falls victim to the “Parker Luck.”
After Peter sacrificed all his relationships to save the world in Spider-Man: No Way Home, he’s forced to bear witness as his former girlfriend MJ (Zendaya) and his best pal Ned (Jacob Batalon) happily go to MIT and the city becomes overrun with costumed baddies. From The Scorpion to The Tarantula to The Hand, The Wall-Crawler has his hands full. If that’s not enough, he’s going through serious changes as his radioactive spider bite-induced powers start changing. Peter gets clarity from radioactive superpower expert and occasional rage monster Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), who reveals that his DNA is mutating and could be dangerous. Oh, and did I mention Jon Bernthal’s Punisher is in this thing, too?
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, Brand New Day feels incredibly comic booky already, and just because this installment in the series will be relatively grounded after No Way Home’s multiversal (and multi-Spidey) craziness doesn’t mean it’s holding back. There looks to be a ton of action and heaps of emotional weight … and we don’t even really know who the main villain is yet!
That said, I’m not quite sold on Peter apparently gaining the ability to shoot organic webs this time around due to his mutation. Organic webbing was a necessary addition to the 2002 Sam Raimi film – after all, it wasn’t plausible in a comic book movie back then for a teenager to be able to build his own web-shooters, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe has already given us aliens, gods, time travel and alternate universes, and I don’t think any of us flinched when Peter popped up in Civil War 10 years ago with webbing he created before getting a driver’s license. Plus, why would randomly-appearing organic web-shooters appear on his wrists, exactly where the mechanical ones would be? Pretty convenient, eh? Skepticism aside, if this movie gives us Man-Spider vs. The Hulk, there’s a lot I’m willing to forgive.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits theaters July 31. Watch the trailer below!
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