SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY Production Photos May Confirm Some Of The Movie's Villains - SPOILERS

Has Spider-Man: Brand New Day director Destin Daniel Cretton's assistant confirmed (inadvertently or otherwise) the identities of some of the villains Spidey will face in the movie?

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By MarkCassidy - Jul 30, 2025 03:07 PM EST

Filed Under: Spider-Man: Brand New Day

It looks like we may have confirmation of at least two of the villains Peter Parker (Tom Holland) will do battle with in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Possible spoilers follow.

Last week, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige had the following to say in regard to what fans can expect from the version of Spidey we find in Brand New Day, while also dropping a few hints about the "street-level" story.

“I think there’s a promise at the end of No Way Home, that for as sad as it is that Peter is forgotten by everyone in his life, we are seeing for the first time in the Tom Holland Spider-Man stories him being a proper Spider-Man. Him being by himself, dedicated to saving the city, and dealing with, for lack of better terms, street-level crime, as opposed to world-ending events. So when you do that, you say, okay, who are the other street-level characters that we’ve never seen him interact with? And of course, I love that The Punisher started in a Spider-Man comic. That great cover…I don’t want to say too much, but Destin, I will say too much, Destin is doing an amazing job right now on that movie, which starts shooting very soon. And he’s got eight or nine comic covers up on his wall in his art department that he is bringing to life in this movie, which is super cool.”

Now, Cretton's assistant, Ziyi Cao, has taken to Instagram to share a (since deleted) post featuring a teasing glimpse of two of those covers: 1974's The Amazing Spider-Man #134, and 1991's The Amazing Spider-Man #345.

The former finds the wall-crawler facing off against Tarantula, and also includes an appearance from The Punisher. TASM #345, meanwhile, sees Spidey do battle against Boomerang, and also features the re-emergence of Venom.

Venom may be a long-shot, but this wouldn't be the first time we've heard the other villains mentioned in connection with this movie, so we'd say their involvement is a pretty safe bet.

Here are the covers, maybe we get a villain fighting montage like in F4 to show what happened during the time jump from NWH or they are present for longer who knows 👀 pic.twitter.com/32w6nt4cht
— number9dreamz (@number9dreamz) July 29, 2025

Spider-Man: Brand New Day will also star Zendaya as MJ (in a reduced role), and Sadie Sink and Liza Colón-Zayas are also on board. We have heard that Steven Yeun is in talks for an undisclosed role, with Michael Mando is expected to return as the Scorpion.

Unlike the previous films, Homecoming, Far From Home, and No Way Home, Brand New Day is the name of a specific arc from the comics, and focuses on Peter Parker attempting to rebuild his life following the events of the status quo-altering One More Day and Civil War.

Brand New Day features a number of new characters such as Carlie Cooper and Lily Hollister, aka the supervillain Menace, which has led to speculation that Sink may have been cast in one of these roles.

“I’m spending my time exploring the next stage of this amazing character with a team of the most incredible artists in the world," said director Destin Daniel Cretton during CinemaCon. "We’re all, just daily, nerding out over the suit, how to swing, how to create an event, an emotional story, and a ride that we haven’t really seen before"

Holland did not appear in Las Vegas for the Sony presentation, but did send the following video message.

"I am so sorry I can’t be with you. I am halfway around the world shooting a movie. I know we left you with a massive cliffhanger at the end of No Way Home, so Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a fresh start. It is exactly that. That’s all I can say."

Spider-Man 4 was recently pushed back a week from July 24, 2026 to July 31, 2026.

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ThorArms - 7/30/2025, 3:33 PM

Ugh. I was hoping those were just rumors when they popped up a few weeks ago. Definitely not the villains I would want to be seeing.

bkmeijer1 - 7/30/2025, 6:26 PM

@ThorArms - I kinda hope it's for a cold open montage at best. None of these villains are interesting enough for a whole movie imo

ThorArms - 7/30/2025, 6:39 PM

@bkmeijer1 - Yeah that's true. But it also seems weird since F4 kind of just did that...although those scenes were wayyyy too short. If we can get a couple good scenes at the beginning of this I would be cool with that.

Scarilian - 7/30/2025, 6:49 PM

@ThorArms -
Honestly, nothing about this film seems to be what fans wanted. It's Spider-man so it'll probably do well, but I don't see this being as successful as if they simply went for a Spider-man, Black Cat, Symbiote story-line where the main antagonist was Scorpion/Venom.

JFerguson - 7/30/2025, 8:40 PM

@ThorArms - we will also definitely be getting Michael Mando Scorpion return, and featured in a snow battle with spiderman no doubt

🕷️❄️🦂

StSteven - 7/30/2025, 9:30 PM

@bkmeijer1 @ThorArms - Yeah, they're probably just going to be used at the beginning of the movie to set up Spidey's new status quo as a street level hero and may tie into the overall big bad, i.e., something along the lines of Peter's trying to figure out what all these small-time criminals have in common ultimately leading him to Mr. Negative (or whoever it is) as the big bad. And I'm assuming that that big bad has Scorpion as his main muscle.

I would imagine that along the way he gets involved with Black Cat and probably has to deal with a personal issue of his life as Spidey is being detrimental to his college work. And if that's not enough for Pete, BAM! he's got to deal with the Punisher, as they're both trying to get to the same big bad in their own way.

To be honest, this is about all I need from this movie. If they manage to fit the Hulk in it for some reason and it makes sense then cool, but I honestly think that everything that I described above is good enough. Just my opinion though.

TheFinestSmack - 7/30/2025, 10:14 PM

@ThorArms - that rumor from earlier today said the movie WAS leaning into being campy.

bkmeijer1 - 7/31/2025, 2:56 AM

@StSteven @ThorArms - FF had more of a montage, which I hope they won't do with Spider-Man. Rather see it open with him stopping a bank heist or something that could be tied to the overarching narrative (which I rather see involve Mr. Negative instead of Hulk).

skyshark03191 - 7/31/2025, 8:46 AM

@Scarilian - what’re you talking about? It’s a street level story with Spidey fighting bad guys that aren’t out to kill half the population or change reality. Sounds like a proper Spidey movie to me. And Tarantula and Boomerang are likely henchmen. Do we know who the main villain is?

Bucky74 - 7/30/2025, 3:40 PM

We need Pete finally swinging through the streets of NYC! I hope Scotland isn't doubling as NY. You can't fake the city that easily. Get a film crew to Midtown ASAP!

ThorArms - 7/30/2025, 3:42 PM

@Bucky74 - Most of No Way Home was filmed in Atlanta

Bucky74 - 7/30/2025, 4:29 PM

@ThorArms - I know. I hate that. They should film in NYC

LibraMatter - 7/30/2025, 4:33 PM

@Bucky74 - I’m sure it’s more difficult and pricier to shoot in NYC. Closing down streets and blocking traffic in a busy-ass city like NY is nuts.

AnthonyVonGeek - 7/30/2025, 5:36 PM

@Bucky74 - I agree with you. It would be awesome to see Spiderman swinging through the real New York but sadly New York is in a rough place right now which is probably making it hard for studios to film there. Hopefully things get better there asap.

Bucky74 - 7/30/2025, 6:55 PM

@AnthonyVonGeek - Good point. And if we get the pro criminal communist the city will be in worse shape than when DeBozo was Mayor

Apophis71 - 7/30/2025, 7:02 PM

@Bucky74 - Costs to film in NYC are nuts, you will likely have watched a lot that looked like it was without ever realising it wasn't NYC.

Also, yes, they are filming NYC scenes in Scotland, maybe not all of them but as much as they can without issues which would result in it being obvious just like they have with a lot of NYC scenes in various MCU films.

Pabs - 7/30/2025, 8:15 PM

@AnthonyVonGeek - is that image real? Wow

AnthonyVonGeek - 7/30/2025, 8:32 PM

@Pabs - I’m not 100% sure that image hasn’t been edited, but I read there’s an estimated 350,000 homeless in New York and the number is sadly growing which is heartbreaking to me.

skyshark03191 - 7/31/2025, 8:48 AM

@AnthonyVonGeek - keep electing the officials they have been it won’t change.

FinnishDude - 7/30/2025, 3:43 PM

Always felt that a decent compromise between making a street-level Spider-Man movie and "but we need to sell toys" was using bunch of C-lister villains as henchmen, whose powers aren't too big in scale.

MrDandy - 7/30/2025, 3:44 PM

Good to have confirmation this will be street level and not multiverse….but I doubt Tarantula or Boomerang will be a main villain. Sound like C-Listers Spidey locks up at some
Point.

AllsGood - 7/30/2025, 3:46 PM

Very Strong Chance the Untiled Marvel Studios movie in 2027 will be :)

lazlodaytona - 7/30/2025, 4:00 PM

@AllsGood - I'm 100% all for that! As long as smart hulk gets gets his testicles cut off and is killed while red hulk pees on his corpse.

KennKathleen - 7/30/2025, 4:00 PM

@AllsGood -

MarvelZombie616 - 7/30/2025, 4:04 PM

@AllsGood - I wouldn't be against it. It could be, because Hulk is in Spiderman 4 and the unrevealed MCU movie comes out 1 year later.

But i think Dr. Strange 3 or Black Panther 3 are also likely.

DocSpock - 7/30/2025, 4:32 PM

@AllsGood -

Oh man I wish! As long as we don't pu$$y Ruffalo Hulk playing 2nd fiddle to girl boss Twerking She-Hulk.

AllsGood - 7/30/2025, 4:42 PM

@DocSpock - Marvel and Russo already confirmed the Angry Hulk is returning.

DocSpock - 7/30/2025, 4:54 PM

@AllsGood -

I missed that bit of news. That is GREAT news. We need raging Hulk, not wussy Hulk.

SteviesRightFoo - 7/30/2025, 4:56 PM

@AllsGood - no, they've destroyed the hulk for long enough

AllsGood - 7/30/2025, 5:40 PM

@SteviesRightFoo - The Hulk isn't a version he lots of Personalities.

The Hulk Personalities is one of greatest powers.

That's mind control and magic are useless against him.

AllsGood - 7/30/2025, 5:58 PM

@DocSpock - Almost every Spiderman story they even say

After all, it's looking increasingly likely that Brand New Day's plot will revolve around Spidey (Tom Holland) and Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) joining forces to put an end to the Savage Hulk's rampage.

Apophis71 - 7/30/2025, 7:09 PM

@SteviesRightFoo - He reverted to one less strong version in one film only and a couple scenes in one show , it doesn't take much to revert him back to any prior version or more OP and can narratively occur in seconds. Isn't the big deal some makes of it as Hulk's power levels have always varied and all it takes to go to god level is Banner loose all control over his anger (or for the Banner part be completed stripped from the character one way or another).

DocSpock - 7/30/2025, 7:44 PM

@AllsGood -

That seems like 2 fleas attacking an elephant.

incredibleTalk - 7/30/2025, 8:21 PM

@DocSpock - Come eat this spinach babe!!!!!!

Yetiman - 7/30/2025, 10:33 PM

@AllsGood - where? You have a link?

DocSpock - 7/30/2025, 10:59 PM

@incredibleTalk -

Gross.

SummersEssex - 7/31/2025, 10:14 AM

@lazlodaytona - testicle mutilation and pee stuff? Count me in!

TheVisionary25 - 7/30/2025, 3:52 PM

Yeah , I doubt we get Venom just yet but I could see Boomerang & Tarantula being in this going by those covers…

Maybe we get one or the other in the opening of the film in order to re-establish Peter and his current status quo as Spider Man as we see him take them down or have both of them as henchmen to the big bad in the film whether that be Tombstone or Mr Negative as rumored.

lazlodaytona - 7/30/2025, 4:02 PM

Spiderman.
Well, if Spiderman can make money after a 3rd (re)introduction, I'm hoping the same for Supes ... except not street level.

CaptainDC - 7/30/2025, 4:08 PM

I can't imagine following up No Way Home with just Tarantula and Boomerang... there has to be a big player like Venom involved here. They've already set up the plot-line with venom in the MCU without the need for Tom Hardy... it's right there for the taking

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