Spider-Man: No Way Home has grossed over $1.9 billion By far the most successful film that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has produced since Avengers: Endgame (2019). No wonder that the funding studios behind the project want to build on this success.
Spider-Man 4 has not yet been officially announced. At this point the film can no longer be described as a secret. We’ve been getting rumors about this for months Story details and cameos. As Comic Book Movie reports, the usually reliable scooper Daniel Richtman brings some particularly exciting information.
Marvel sequel: Spider-Man 4 with Tom Holland could go in two completely different directions
Apparently there are two fundamentally different ideas about what Holland’s fourth Spider-Man film should look like. As with the previous Spidey adventures in the MCU, work on the new film Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios together again. Sony will distribute the film to cinemas, while Marvel will produce it.
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Tobey Maguire, Tom Holland and Andrew Garfield in Spider-Man: No Way Home
According to Richtman, Sony wants a second No Way Home, i.e.: A gigantic blockbuster event, which brings back many well-known Marvel characters. The predecessor surprised with Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, who were able to appear in the MCU timeline years after their Spider-Man films thanks to the multiverse trick.
Marvel boss Kevin Feige, on the other hand, sees Spider-Man 4 as more likely a grounded film, which definitely fits with the ending of No Way Home. After the multiverse madness, everyone forgot about Holland’s Peter Parker. Lonely and alone, he swings through snowy New York. There is no trace of the Avengers anywhere.
A grounded Spider-Man film with Tom Holland would make perfect sense after No Way Home
Since Holland has always appeared in the presence of well-known MCU characters such as Tony Stark, Nick Fury and most recently Doctor Strange in his films, there was hope that we would get one with Spider-Man 4 straight-up Spider-Man movie without getting too many MCU connections. A film where Spider-Man can just be Spider-Man.
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Tom Holland at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home
Now there are signs of a conflict of interest behind the scenes. It is difficult to judge how serious the situation is based on Richtman’s statement. Let’s hope Holland doesn’t end up like No Way Home again begging to pick up the phoneto talk to Disney boss Bob Iger about Spider-Man’s future in the MCU.
At that time, it looked for a short time as if Sony and the Disney subsidiary Marvel could not agree on one Spider-Man deal extension some. During an appearance on Late Night Show with Jimmy Kimmel, Holland revealed that there was a very emotional phone call between him and Iger, Variety reported in 2019.
He told Kimmel:
I cried. No, I didn’t cry – but I did, yes. I was really emotional because I felt like that everything comes to an end. We had a really good plan for what we wanted to do with Sony. Spider-Man’s future was still very bright. It would have been a shame to take him out of the MCU. When does Spider-Man 4 with Tom Holland start in cinemas?
As you can probably guess at this point, production on Spider-Man 4 is still in its early stages. We shouldn’t expect a theatrical release any time soon.
After the exhausting Apple series The Crowded Room, Holland announced that he wanted to take a break from acting. We assume that Spider-Man 4 will only be released in cinemas in 2026.