SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY Photos Reveal New Look At Tom Holland In Costume And Zendaya's MJ

SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY Photos Reveal New Look At Tom Holland In Costume And Zendaya's MJ

New photos and footage from the set of Spider-Man: Brand New Day reveal Tom Holland in costume as the wall-crawler, alongside Zendaya's MJ. We also have more from director Jon Watts on the upcoming sequel.

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By JoshWilding - Nov 14, 2025 04:11 PM EST

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is still shooting in the UK, and new photos and footage posted on social media reveal a fresh look at Tom Holland suited up as the web-slinger, alongside Zendaya's Michelle "MJ" Jones Watson.

The latter appears to be in costume as her character, and the actress being on set alongside Holland's Spider-Man suggests they will indeed share screens in the upcoming sequel directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Unfortunately, the set, constructed at London's Pinewood Studios, was not shown. 

While we don't have the full backstory, it seems Holland and Zendaya were on hand to greet fans invited to Spider-Man: Brand New Day's set. We wouldn't bank on anything more revealing than this surfacing, as Marvel Studios is being careful to keep the plot under wraps. 

The Hollywood Reporter recently spoke with Spider-Man: Homecoming, Far From Home, and No Way Home director Jon Watts. Asked if he's looking forward to watching the next movie as a fan, the filmmaker said, "Yeah, I can’t wait. It’s going to be so strange for me. I’m still in touch with everyone. Hopefully, Tom is okay. He got hurt a couple weeks ago, but I think he’s going to be fine."

"So that’s going to be such a surreal experience for me," Watts continued. "I’m nervous, I’m excited and I can’t wait to see what they’re doing."

Reflecting on the secrecy surrounding Spider-Man: No Way Home, he added, "If I had a secret that big again, I feel like I could keep it a secret. But then again, one of the things that leaked was a [DoorDash] delivery to Andrew Garfield’s house in Atlanta. How can you anticipate that? You’d have to force your cast and crew to be on total lockdown. So I don’t know that you could ever be so airtight."

"What was cool was when we did our first focus tests. No one knew what was going on at all," he recalled. "It was early on in the process before people started to make connections. We got such a pure, genuine, shocked reaction from the crowd. It was amazing."

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings helmer Destin Daniel Cretton directs Spider-Man: Brand New Day from a script by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers.

Tom Holland plays Spider-Man in a cast that also includes Jon Bernthal (The Punisher), Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk), Zendaya (MJ), Sadie Sink, Michael Mando (The Scorpion), Tramell Tillman, Marvin Jones III (Tombstone), Jacob Batalon (Ned Leeds), and Liza Colón-Zayas. Thunderbolts* star Florence Pugh is expected to return as Yelena Belova.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be released in theaters on July 31, 2026.

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krayzeman
krayzeman - 11/14/2025, 4:35 PM
Marvel going from no photos or footage leak lockdowns to now letting the leaks fly is hilarious. They are really trying to be right with fans. I can appreciate that I guess...
MonkeyBot
MonkeyBot - 11/14/2025, 4:46 PM
@krayzeman - what is leaked in these photos?
Jmellox81
Jmellox81 - 11/14/2025, 6:48 PM
@krayzeman - look,I think we can all agree, there’s nothing better than the “First look” pics/vids from the set wether it’s leaked or official! And I love them just like every other red blooded closet comic book movie nerd, BUT!!. You could make a short movie with the amount of “leaked” set vids/pics from some of these movies the past few years!..
MrDandy
MrDandy - 11/14/2025, 7:33 PM
@krayzeman - when shooting on practical locations, it is kind of hard to stop it from happening. All the Russo brothers Cap America films had a lot of leaks because so much was shot outside.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 11/15/2025, 7:03 AM
@MonkeyBot - In terms of the actual film we have basicaly only had images/vids from one scene, two at most which were on location in a City thus would have been unofficial ones anyway just as there was with every other CBM, DC or Marvel, with location shots in UK cities. When everyone has a high res video camera in their pocket these days near impossible to prevent such stuff so this time around actualy releasing official BTS of the Tank/prison escape scene I loved over the norm shaky unofficial stuff we've had previously with the likes of The Batman or Joker2.

F4 on the other hand we had next to nothing BTS wise other than some drone shots of the sets prior to release as little in the way of RL locations used, is what it is and not exactly new either. Anytime the MCU has had RL location shots since at least the first Avengers movies someone leaked something just as was the case with every DC film from the 2nd Nolan film onwards thus down to how much is on closed constructed sets or in studio's and how much filmed on the streets of a City.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 11/14/2025, 4:44 PM
It’s interesting that Zendaya seems more “glammed up” there but also in costume because I’m pretty sure we saw MJ wear that coat and the outfit in other films…

Anyway it makes me wonder if perhaps there is a timeskip in which she gets a more glamorous career like a model or something to perhaps pay for college?.

Regardless , I have liked her performance and this take on MJ in the previous 3 films so looking forward to her inclusion in BND!!.
whatthetruck
whatthetruck - 11/14/2025, 5:08 PM
Wait, I don't personally care myself, but I just caught myself wondering why Zendaya didn't get the same race swap backlash for MJ as other character's actors did.
I know they kept it all undercover at first, but I don't think I've seen anyone cry about it since it was revealed. What gives?
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/14/2025, 5:16 PM
@whatthetruck -

Hollyweird pushing their agendas is nothing new. People are so used to it they don't even bring it up much any more.
ElJefe
ElJefe - 11/14/2025, 5:37 PM
@whatthetruck - She got plenty at the time. You must be hanging out at friendly, welcoming and inclusive websites about comicbook movies.

Please, for the love of god, give us all the web address!
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 11/14/2025, 6:19 PM
@whatthetruck - She, as in the character in discussions here and the actor directly on social media, got a ton of it even though she WASN'T Mary Jane, a character in the source Peter doesn't even meet for the first time till AFTER high school and didn't go steady with till AFTER college following the death of Gwen thus IF closer to source unlikely they were going to get back around to Mary Jane thus Easter Egg only giving her the MJ nickname realy when she is Michelle Jones, a fully original character.

...AFTER the massive amounts of race swapping complaints finaly got all of the above, they simply switched to hating the character anyway without calling it a race swap but STILL saying worst MJ and continuously wanting her dropped from the franchise one way or another.
MrDandy
MrDandy - 11/14/2025, 7:34 PM
@whatthetruck - because people like her and she is hot (which is MJ’s most defining quality lol)
Makiveli21
Makiveli21 - 11/14/2025, 9:45 PM
@MrDandy - no this chick is not hot. Have you seen Euphoria? She’s literally dressed like a boy. And MJs defining quality is red hair which this ugly girl does not have. Also MJ is curvy, this chick is a toothpick with no body.
krayzeman
krayzeman - 11/18/2025, 12:05 PM
@whatthetruck - She's not technically not Mary Jane Watson. In the movies she's Michelle Jones so there is technically no race swap therefore no backlash.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/14/2025, 5:20 PM

DEI MJ, Ned, & Flash all suck. Get rid of them. But the race swapping is NOT the issue. They are completely annoying and NOTHING like the characters in the comics.
dragon316
dragon316 - 11/14/2025, 5:22 PM
@DocSpock - neither was modok , mysterio , and some others
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/14/2025, 5:45 PM
@dragon316 -

Sadly very true. man, I want to finally see 2-3 movies of Peter Parker Spider-Man vs the real Eddie Brock/Venom. My hope is Peter comes back from Secret Wars with the goo on him.
Shmokey20
Shmokey20 - 11/14/2025, 6:40 PM
@DocSpock - Yeah because everyone not white is DEI to you huh? yall are pathetic 😒
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/14/2025, 6:58 PM
@Shmokey20 -

Presumptive dumba$$ says what? You clearly don't know my ethnicity.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 11/15/2025, 7:38 AM
@DocSpock - When I first learned Marvel got the rights back to Spider-Man it's funny how excited I got cause I would have never imagined years later that they would have tried to go so far out of the way of being accurate. Even to them making his whole second movie not taking place in NY and never showing or mentioning Uncle Ben at all.
Shmokey20
Shmokey20 - 11/15/2025, 9:52 AM
@DocSpock - Who Gives A F**K, you can be black and still hate on other ethnicities and even your own. Your race doesn't determine your character dumba$$
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/16/2025, 1:01 AM
@Shmokey20 -

Swing and a miss again dumba$$. And I don't "hate on" any ethnicities. Here is what I said: The race swapping is NOT the issue. They are completely annoying and NOTHING like the characters in the comics.

You twisted that into me "hating on" ethnicities. You are the jerk trying make a giant race thing here. It's what people like you do.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/16/2025, 1:05 AM
@Matchesz -

I have read every Spider-Man comic ever printed, and I am no longer surprised at anything they do anymore. Everything started unraveling about 25 years ago. I did truly love those first 2 Spidey movies though.
Shmokey20
Shmokey20 - 11/16/2025, 5:38 AM
@DocSpock - Don't gaslight me, you specifically said DEL MJ, NED, & FLASH... so they're DEI because they're not white? Like make it make sense
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/16/2025, 1:12 PM
@Shmokey20 -

1) Yes, they changed all 3 to serve DEI. That's not in question. They have to meet certain guidelines.
2) My complaint, as I said, was NOT because of DEI(Which was a complaint of many) but because they made them goofy characters who were NOTHING like in the comics.

And thanks for claiming gaslighting when I did nothing of the kind, you snowflake pu$$y.
Shmokey20
Shmokey20 - 11/16/2025, 3:33 PM
@DocSpock - You keep tripping over your own logic, man. You said the characters were “DEI MJ, Ned, and Flash” and now you’re pretending that has nothing to do with race. DEI is literally the label you use when you think a character only exists because they aren’t white. That is the exact implication. You can try to hide behind “guidelines” all you want, but you made it clear what you meant.

And stop acting like mentioning race is “making a giant race thing.” You threw that label out first and now you’re crying because someone actually pressed you on it. If your real issue was the writing, you could have just said the writing sucked. But you led with DEI because that is your go to excuse whenever a character isn’t the same race they were in the 1960s comics.

So no, calling that out isn’t twisting anything. It’s holding you to the words you typed. If you don’t want to be associated with that mindset, stop talking like you’re reading from a comment section in 2016.

But sure, keep yelling “snowflake” like that somehow fixes the fact that your argument falls apart the moment someone questions it.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/16/2025, 6:47 PM
@Shmokey20 -

You're just getting sad and funny now. If you spend your life looking everywhere and anywhere for outrage, then everything everywhere will provide some for you. You say I'm crying. Nope. I'm laughing at you.
Shmokey20
Shmokey20 - 11/17/2025, 6:48 AM
@DocSpock - You’re not laughing. You’re dodging. Every time I point out the contradiction in what you said, you run to the same tired “you’re just looking for outrage” line because you can’t actually defend your own words.

You labeled the characters as DEI. I asked you to explain why. You failed. That’s the whole story here.

If calling out something you wrote makes you uncomfortable, just own it instead of hiding behind the “I’m laughing” act. People who are actually confident in their point don’t have to pretend they’re above the conversation. They just explain themselves. You still haven’t.
campblood
campblood - 11/14/2025, 5:26 PM
Tom just seems like a nice guy that enjoys the role and the love he gets from fans.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 11/14/2025, 6:10 PM
Time travel plot confirmed:
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ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 11/14/2025, 6:11 PM
Maybe this is Parker on Battleworld.
clogan
clogan - 11/14/2025, 11:24 PM
@ObserverIO - I still can't believe we're getting James Nolan's Thor Man with Tom Holland.
TheShape9859
TheShape9859 - 11/14/2025, 6:19 PM
They made MJ out to look like some homeless bum instead of a gorgeous woman
MrDandy
MrDandy - 11/14/2025, 7:36 PM
@TheShape9859 - anyone who thinks Zendaya is a bum even with frumpy hair probably is either racist, gay, or a jealous woman.

I’m now looking at you suspiciously.
Spike101
Spike101 - 11/15/2025, 6:10 AM
Please can they just ditch all these awful representations of Spider-Man’s supporting cast and replace them with actors/actresses who actually look somewhat closer to the characters they are supposed to be portraying. MJ, Ned, Flash they all suck, MJ so badly that they renamed her. Nothing against them personally, they are just poorly cast, and directed.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 11/15/2025, 11:12 PM
Those fans are so lucky.

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