The year is slowly drawing to a close, and we still don’t have a announcement despite and Sony telling us all the way back in late 2021 that will have a sequel in the , starring Tom Holland as Peter Parker. It’s a surprising development, considering that Marvel has already doubled down on its and release dates. Not only are the highly anticipated final movies sticking to their May 2026 and May 2027 release dates, but Marvel has fixed its Kang problem.
is now known as . Robert Downey Jr. is returning to the MCU to play Doctor Doom rather than Tony Stark.
I secretly hope this Doom is a version of Iron Man from the multiverse. has not changed its title. It still teases a big confrontation between the Avengers and the new bad guy to save the multiverse.
The Russo brothers are directing both movies, just like they did with and . Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. By signing up, I agree to the and have reviewed the Peter Parker to have a big role in at least one of these movies, especially considering who’s playing Doctor Doom.
But will be a key piece of the puzzle. After all, the Avengers don’t know who Spider-Man is, and they’ll need him again. After a series of reports that teased , we have more leaks that indicate the MCU’s Peter Parker will have a great future in what remains of the .
If you want surprises, you’d better avoid what follows next. premieres on May 1st, 2026. comes out just over a year later, on May 7th, 2027.
If leaks are accurate, could hit theaters anytime between those dates. While we wait for Sony to announce the release date, we have a new report from well-known Marvel leaker Daniel Richtman. He said on that Marvel will start on and in early 2025.
Tom Holland will appear in both movies and will be bouncing between them. Interestingly, Richtman says that Spider-Man will have a significantly larger role in than in and . While I’m not the biggest fan of Spider-Man, I do appreciate Peter Parker’s role in that movie.
The “kid,” as Tony Stark often called him, was a catalyst for Iron Man’s invention of time travel between the events of and . With that in mind, I’m dying to see Peter’s reaction to seeing Doctor Doom’s face. I hope there’s .
Peter could discover that a different Stark variant from the multiverse became this massive villain he now has to face. I’m sure that Doom, like Thanos, will think he’s actually a hero of his story, set to save his reality or the entirety of the multiverse. Interesting, here's what I heard about Holland lately: There's a new Marvel-Sony deal that will have Tom Holland reprising his role as Spider-Man/Peter Parker in three more solo films (Spider-Man 4-6) and three additional MCU films (including SECRET WARS and two others).
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Moving on, there’s an even more exciting Spider-Man claim out there from a different Marvel insider who turned out to be accurate about some of her MCU predictions. As you can see above, that Tom Holland should appear in many more MCU movies than we thought. It’s all thanks to a purported new deal between Sony and Marvel.
The MCU will get another Spider-Man trilogy, through . After that, Spider-Man will appear in and two unnamed projects. The previous deal apparently covered and .
Soon after and , Sony and Disney wanted to break up. It took a few weeks for the studios to ink a new deal. Rumors at the time said that Tom Holland would play Peter Parker in another movie, which would become , and an unnamed crossover.
For a while, it seemed like Peter Parker might show up in , but that might not be the case. If this information is accurate, the deal might have always been to have the MCU Spidey show up in after . The new agreement will be even more exciting to Marvel fans.
But it will take a while to get confirmed. Maybe the reason did not get an official announcement concerns this new deal. Sony and Marvel might have needed to finalize their agendas regarding Spider-Man before proceeding to announce the sequel.
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