We May Be Close To Learning Who Will Play SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY's Villains - But Is A Delay Imminent?

According to a new rumour, offers have gone out to the actors will could play Spider-Man: Brand New Day's male and female villains. However, there's speculation about another possible release date delay...

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By JoshWilding - Jun 02, 2025 07:06 AM EST

Filed Under: Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Spider-Man: Brand New Day swings into theaters next July. However, with production not expected to begin until this July, there are concerns the movie could be delayed; after all, Avengers: Doomsday was facing a similar one-year turnaround and recently moved from May to December 2026.

While we'd advise taking this with a pinch of salt following recent events, scooper Daniel Richtman has said today that "there's a good chance [Spider-Man: Brand New Day] will get pushed as well."

If a delay happens, it's unclear where the movie would move to. However, each Spider-Man movie co-produced by Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures has had a relatively tight turnaround, and this seems more like speculation than anything concrete.

There are already rumblings that Bob Iger is unhappy with Avengers: Doomsday being the only MCU title being released in 2026 (and at the end of the year, no less), so losing that 25% cut of profits likely won't be an option for the House of Mouse. With that in mind, we'd expect Spider-Man: Brand New Day to be released as planned next summer.

In related news, Richtman has also learned that offers have been made to the actors who might end up playing Spider-Man: Brand New Day's male and female villains. There's no word on who those have gone out to, but this suggests work on the movie is progressing as planned.

A synopsis for the movie surfaced earlier this year, though it's unclear how accurate it is. However, we now have good reason to believe that Spidey's "unlikely ally" will be The Hulk.

"Following the events of Doomsday, Peter Parker is determined to lead a normal life and focus on college, stepping back from his responsibilities as Spider-Man. However, peace is short-lived when a deadly new threat emerges, endangering his friends and forcing Peter to reconsider his promise. With stakes higher than ever, Peter reluctantly returns to his Spider-Man identity and finds himself teaming up with an unlikely ally to protect those he loves."

Spider-Man: Brand New Day shares a title with a controversial era of storytelling, which saw Marvel Comics give the wall-crawler a fresh start by ending his marriage to Mary Jane Watson and making his identity secret again. He faced many new sinister foes during that time and was surrounded by an overhauled supporting cast, including a resurrected Harry Osborn.

Mister Negative, Jackpot, Menace, and Carlie Cooper were some of the standout additions to his world, and are among the most likely possibilities to make an appearance next summer. You can learn more about how "Brand New Day" may influence the next Spider-Man movie here.

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 leads a cast that also includes Zendaya, Sadie Sink, and Liza Colón-Zayas.

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

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Thehumanfixer - 6/2/2025, 6:55 AM

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MakeAmericaGrea - 6/2/2025, 9:26 AM

@Thehumanfixer -

🥳🪅🎉🎈

Gabimaru - 6/2/2025, 6:56 AM

Marvel are in panic button now uh oh

AllsGood - 6/2/2025, 7:34 AM

@Gabimaru - Marvel Studios Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be Delayed. The movie still hasn't even started in production or filming yet.

Same with Doomsday and Secret Wars just started filming Doomsday.

ObserverIO - 6/2/2025, 9:41 AM

@AllsGood - So no movies till the end of next year? Is Marvel dead?

AllsGood - 6/2/2025, 9:52 AM

@ObserverIO - Delayed Months NOT Years.

ObserverIO - 6/2/2025, 9:55 AM

@AllsGood - I hope it's months at the most.

AllsGood - 6/2/2025, 10:00 AM

@ObserverIO - All Studios have delayed or moved movies due to many reasons.

Nothing NEW in Hollywood. Are you new to Movie Studios in Hollywood?

ObserverIO - 6/2/2025, 10:16 AM

@AllsGood - Are you new to Marvel Studios? The only time they had a gap like this was when the world was literally in lockdown because of Covid and even then they technically had no gap because Disney dropped New Mutants that year.

If BND is delayed until 2027 it will be the longest that cinemas have ever gone without a Marvel movie since the 1-2 year gap between X-Men and Blade II.

AllsGood - 6/2/2025, 10:43 AM

@ObserverIO - NOT Marvel Studios first movie being delayed.

Are you new to Marvel Studios?

ObserverIO - 6/2/2025, 2:15 PM

@AllsGood - Of course it's not but I'm not talking about the delay I'm talking about the lack of any movies coming out over such a long period of time.

UnderBelly - 6/2/2025, 6:57 AM

Depending on how the success of Superman goes, DC would be smart to soak up all the space that's being created with the ongoing delays from Disney and co.

MakeAmericaGrea - 6/2/2025, 9:29 AM

@UnderBelly -

Have a few directors and composers and editors make some short films and make a DC anthology movie.

Release it in 2026.

UnderBelly - 6/2/2025, 9:33 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea - That's actually not a bad idea. Something more realistic though will be something akin to what the Matrix did with The Animatrix.

Have a short film play in front of any new WB movies coming out to expand on characters they intend to use on the big screen, and having it only play in theatres will increase the ticket sales for those movies and expanding the DCU in the long term.

Animated form will probably cost less, but if done right can be really impactful.

AllsGood - 6/2/2025, 7:14 AM

Marvel Studios Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now my most Anticipated Movie. Even over Doomsday and Secret Wars.

FrankenDad - 6/2/2025, 8:05 AM

@AllsGood - Only if we get WoodGod played by Nick Frost.

AllsGood - 6/2/2025, 8:20 AM

@FrankenDad - Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be setting up Doomsday and Secret Wars. I don't expect to see WoodGod.

FrankenDad - 6/2/2025, 8:38 AM

@AllsGood - Just making a joke because he’s on that Marvel Team Up cover.

AgentofSH1ELD - 6/2/2025, 8:59 AM

@AllsGood - Mr. Negative uses his energy to turn smart hulk back into rage hulk. Spidey has to stop him and they take down Mr. Negative together.

MakeAmericaGrea - 6/2/2025, 9:30 AM

@AllsGood -

I hope it isn't too woke for you to be able to enjoy it.

AllsGood - 6/2/2025, 9:50 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea - Disney and Marvel Studios.

TMW1987ProudProWrestlingFan - 6/2/2025, 7:42 AM

"Following the events of Doomsday"

Synopsis already outdated!

If this stays in July, a rejigging/restructure of the story will be required to put this before Doomsday.

If that ends up being a pain in the arse for them, more than likely Spidey shifts to 2027 to fit it back after Doomsday again .

Linux1172 - 6/2/2025, 7:46 AM

After years now of speculation, you'd think they'd finally give us Hobgoblin. So far, I'm not jazzed about this next Spidey installment at all. I get the feeling the wheels are coming off the road a bit with their ideas of where to take him despite fans basically giving them exactly what they want, which the writers almost instantly and arrogantly ignore.

They might want to be careful with Spidey after all the duds with other characters they've had these past years; it's the franchise they have that hasn't been tainted yet and still gives fans hope they'll be entertained by just a good story. Once they ruin it, it's going to be an uphill battle, like what they've done to other characters, to get fans to believe again.

AllsGood - 6/2/2025, 7:56 AM

@Linux1172 - Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be setting up for Doomsday and Secret War movies.

Not a Solo Spiderman movie.

JustAWaffle - 6/2/2025, 8:08 AM

I rarely care about delays, so long as it is for quality reasons. I'm willing to wait years if it means getting a good Spiderman trilogy with good writing and a solid direction.

Used to be we'd have to wait 2-3 years in between IP films. I think Raimi's was on average 2.5.

AllsGood - 6/2/2025, 8:24 AM

@JustAWaffle - There talking months not years just like Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day needs to be released before Doomsday.

JustAWaffle - 6/2/2025, 5:53 PM

@AllsGood - Of course. I’m just saying we have it extremely good today with how fast things role. And a little bit of extra time for quality control is worth it.

bobevanz - 6/2/2025, 8:34 AM

It's quite obvious there would be a delay IF this is supposed to be a multiverse story that ties into Doomsday. Otherwise it doesn't need to delay.

"In related news, Richtman has also learned that offers have been made to the actors who might end up playing Spider-Man: Brand New Day's male and female villains. There's no word on who those have gone out to, but this suggests work on the movie is progressing as planned."

WOW TOP NOTCH JOURNALISM!

bobevanz - 6/2/2025, 8:36 AM

This is like when you were a kid and the teacher said you needed 200 words for the essay, so you just add a bunch of filler to fill the quota lmao

MakeAmericaGrea - 6/2/2025, 9:33 AM

@bobevanz -

I hope our work is paying for some good moichendise.

TheJester187 - 6/2/2025, 8:43 AM

All these delays remind me of Covid era studios gettin ahead of themselves to cash out on people instead of taking their time to build a productions. And every studio is waiting on most major actors to become available.

Scarilian - 6/2/2025, 8:51 AM

I really want Spider-man to stay separate from the MCU mess at the moment - the idea of Hulk, potentially Punisher, decreases my interest in the movie significantly and pushes it into possible 'skip' territory. I've never skipped a Spider-man movie, but this could be the first.

We've already had a trilogy where they felt they needed to insert MCU characters, can't we have at least one movie focused on Spider-man at the lowest point in his life after sacrificing all his loved ones and everyone forgetting who he is as Peter Parker.

We've been constantly told the Avengers are no more and now the one movie that would benefit from a lack of Avengers is featuring Hulk who is one of the Avengers?

What about Spider-man's characters? We finally bring back Scorpion from the post-credits of the first movie and we don't bother to follow up the post-credits of Spider-man: NWH? Are you kidding me? We're going to completely waste the most ideal time for Venom?

vectorsigma - 6/2/2025, 9:01 AM

These rumor sites dont get it.

With the success of NWH and its multiverse shenanigans, do you think the Sony bosses will make a street level follow up?

thedrudo - 6/2/2025, 9:57 AM

@vectorsigma - Yeah, they aren’t ignoring fans out of arrogance. These movies are like dick measuring contests for these studios. No Way Home was pretty large and for them to scale down would be like losing to them.

TheVisionary25 - 6/2/2025, 9:11 AM

If true then given that synopsis says “following the events of Doomsday” then I think we’ll likely get it already have gotten a rewrite done to the script of BND since Doomsday will now be out in December unless they move Spidey to 2027 which I doubt..

Likely they’ll shift things around like they did with NWH since it was suppose to originally come out after MoM , not before.

Anyway , hope we get more casting news & official details about the film soon!!.

DocSpock - 6/2/2025, 9:37 AM

They have the wrong director for this movie. He is not bad, just not right for this.

ObserverIO - 6/2/2025, 9:53 AM

Split it into two movies. A cheaper, street level movie to meet the release date and a multiversal bigger budgeted movie to release the following summer.

dragon316 - 6/2/2025, 10:12 AM

Stop Spider-Man and avenging friends have him team up with black cat someone else Spider-Man universe miles be good

Linux1172 - 6/2/2025, 12:12 PM

@dragon316 - 1000% agree

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