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 might 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 House, and No Manner House — 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 Part Six of the MCU.)
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If that timeline holds, that may make the summer season of 2026 into the summer season 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 below 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 kind of cliffhanger, Spider-Man must take it into consideration. There are methods round that after all — Captain Marvel appeared between Avengers: Infinity Struggle and Avengers: Endgame — and most of it was a interval piece, with solely its post-credits scene happening 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, might be fascinating to observe.
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 important job” on the undertaking.
Spider-Man 4 is at the moment scheduled for launch in theaters on July 24, 2026.
Holland will return as Marvel’s Pleasant Neighborhood Net-Slinger.
