Spidey 4: Brand New Day

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

So the announcement has gone out about the fourth Spidey flick, and...

...yeah, if they go with some of the key elements of the arc it's named for, I'm quite pleased about it.

 

Brand New Day is, handily, a post-retcon incident arc in the books, in which Peter and MJ's relationship has been erased (check) as has everyone's memory of Peter being Spidey (also check... which also handily explains why he wouldn't be called up for Doomsday, as nobody'd know to call him). Sadly I don't think they're gonna rez plz Aunt May for the movie. This is also the era of the Superhero Registration Act, and Pete's decided to opt out of the game entirely.

 

Harry Osborn is also around in this one - though not in full cackling mode, that's his Menace of a girlfriend - and J Jonah Jameson loses control of the Bugle to an even more unpleasant "celebrity businessman". (No end of candidates as to who that could refer to these days.)

[Techwright]

On 4/1/2025 at 11:32 AM, ThaOGDreamWeaver said:

So the announcement has gone out about the fourth Spidey flick, and...

...yeah, if they go with some of the key elements of the arc it's named for, I'm quite pleased about it.

 

Brand New Day is, handily, a post-retcon incident arc in the books, in which Peter and MJ's relationship has been erased (check) as has everyone's memory of Peter being Spidey (also check... which also handily explains why he wouldn't be called up for Doomsday, as nobody'd know to call him). Sadly I don't think they're gonna rez plz Aunt May for the movie. This is also the era of the Superhero Registration Act, and Pete's decided to opt out of the game entirely.

 

Harry Osborn is also around in this one - though not in full cackling mode, that's his Menace of a girlfriend - and J Jonah Jameson loses control of the Bugle to an even more unpleasant "celebrity businessman". (No end of candidates as to who that could refer to these days.)

 

Eric Voss over at New Rockstars covers it in more depth ⬇️ , including casting calls, and speculative theories based on what is known to this point.  Looks like there'll be a female villain this time.  The only one I wish it was, and could not be, would be Black Cat.  She's Peter's age, and the casting call is asking for one who is much older than college-aged Peter.  Black Cat would have made a certain sense because (SPOILER STILL?) Peter is without friends and has left MJ for her own safety.  Black Cat would likely be seen as filling that void while being able to take care of herself (despite the whole cat burgler bit).  She's been portrayed as a stand-in in multiple interpretations of the Spider-man mythos.  But, apparently not this time.  I'm wondering if this will be a female Doc Ock?  Probably not since we've had "Liv" in the animated movies recently, and "Otto" in live action recently.  That suggests they'll be going with a rarer character, unless the MCU is going to do another gender swap.

 

Oh, and if anyone sees a "trailer", there's not a real trailer nor teaser released yet.

 

 

[biostem]

2 hours ago, Techwright said:

Black Cat

Given how they dressed-down the women in Spider Woman, I am not confident that they could portray Black Cat adequately, currently...