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 most recent movie within the franchise will premiere in the summertime of 2026. The film shall 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 Residence, and No Means Residence — the movie is a co-production with Marvel and Marvel Studios and is about throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe. (The movie is technically a part of Section Six of the MCU.)
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If that timeline holds, that can make the summer season of 2026 into the summer season of 2027 essentially the most consequential 12 months 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 beneath two months earlier than Spider-Man 4. Its sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars, follows it on Might 7, 2027.
Which means Spider-Man 4 will debut between the 2 movies — and if Doomsday ends on any type of cliffhanger, Spider-Man must take it into consideration. There are methods round that in fact — Captain Marvel appeared between Avengers: Infinity Struggle 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 films, which have the potential to utterly reshape the MCU, shall be attention-grabbing to observe.
The plot of the brand new movie is unknown. Throughout a latest interview, Holland mentioned he had already seen a draft of the script, which “nonetheless wants work” whereas including that “the writers are doing an important 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.
