Sony Pictures exec and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse producer Amy Pascal announced that a fourth movie is in-development earlier this week, and star Tom Holland has now confirmed that he is set to return as Peter Parker... eventually!
Holland said he planned to take a long break from playing the wall-crawler after No Way Home's release, and while the actor is now officially "in talks" to reprise the role, the ongoing WGA strike has thrown a temporary spanner in the works.
“I can’t talk about that," Holland told Variety when asked about plans for Spider-Man 4. "But I can say that we have been having meetings. We’ve put the meetings on pause in solidarity with the writers. There’s been multiple conversations had, but at this point it’s very, very early stages.”
Despite Holland hinting that he might be done playing Spidey after No Way Home, nobody really believed that he was ready to hang up the costume just yet, so his return won't come as much of a surprise. However, the news that Zendaya will also be back as MJ has received something of a mixed response after the events of the last movie.
At the end of No Way Home, Spider-Man asked Doctor Strange to cast a spell to make the whole world forget that Peter Parker exists - including his girlfriend MJ and best pal Ned. Clearly, this is either going to be reversed, or Parker will simply strike up a new relationship with MJ, as he was initially planning to do in the closing moments of the movie before changing his mind.
We probably won't find out any plot details for quite a while, but fans are hoping that this next film will finally give us the face-to-face meeting between Spidey and Venom we've been waiting for.
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