Spider-Man 4 is finally happening and we now have both a filming start date and a confirmed release date.
In early September 2024, it was reported that Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton was in early talks to direct the new Spider-Man movie. His role was officially confirmed in late October when it was revealed that Spider-Man 4 will swing into cinemas in July 2026.
What’s more, Tom Holland and Zendaya are both returning for the new movie, and Holland has said filming starts next summer.
With all this exciting news dropping, here’s everything you need to know about Spider-Man 4.
Spider-Man 4 release date: When will Spider-Man 4 be out in cinemas?
Spider-Man 4 will be released in cinemas on July 24, 2026, assuming there are no delays to production.
It means that it will have been almost five years since Spider-Man: No Way Home by the time we see Tom Holland’s Spidey return. He could, of course, pop up in Avengers: Doomsday, which comes out just before Spider-Man 4 on May 1, 2026.
Spider-Man movies are used to dropping after a major Avengers movie as Spider-Man: Far From Home arrived shortly after Avengers: Endgame in 2019.
According to Holland, filming will start “next summer”.
“Everything’s good to go, we’re nearly there, super exciting. I can’t wait,” he added.
Spider-Man 4 cast: Will Tom Holland return as Spider-Man?
Tom Holland is, of course, coming back as Peter Parker for his fourth solo MCU movie, and he’ll be joined by Zendaya reprising her role as MJ.
Following the release of No Way Home, Holland was initially a bit cagey about returning, but he has since said he’d do a fourth movie as long as it wouldn’t be for the “sake of making another one”.
It seems they’ve found that reason for a fourth movie. “The idea is crazy. It’s a little different to anything we’ve done before, but I think the fans are gonna really respond to it,” Holland teased in October 2024.
In a separate interview, Holland said that the script – from Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, who have co-written all three Spider-Man movies to date – had him “bouncing around the living room” with Zendaya.
We’d imagine that Jacob Batalon would return as Ned, but there’s been no mention of Batalon’s return, and talking in April 2024, he had no idea whether he’d be returning or not.
“I don’t know what any future holds for any of them in that world. I just feel like if things happen, they happen. I hope so. I definitely hope so. It’s sad that he has no friends anymore,” he told ComicBook.com.
The new movie would, of course, have to find some way around the fact that MJ and Ned no longer remember their shared history with Peter, let alone that Peter is Spider-Man.
We imagine that won’t take long to resolve itself though.
Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau) doesn’t know Peter now either, but he does know Spider-Man, so he could be back again.
One person who definitely won’t be in it is Marisa Tomei, as Aunt May was tragically killed by the Green Goblin. The multiverse does offer the possibility of an alternate Aunt May (like the alternate Spider-Men), but we feel this won’t be done.
It’s also unlikely that Andrew Garfield or Tobey Maguire would return, again, to their roles, given that their brief but meaningful appearance in No Way Home is rectified as the plot reseals the multiverse.
However, they do now have official MCU names as “Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” (Maguire) and “The Amazing Spider-Man” (Garfield), so who’s to say they couldn’t swing by the MCU again?
Garfield would be up for another team-up movie as long as the story called for it, saying: “It would have to be something very unique, very special and serving to an audience and in service of the character.”
Kirsten Dunst wasn’t asked to come back as Mary-Jane Watson for No Way Home but has always been open that she “would have” reprised the role. Could we see that in a new movie? Let’s hope so.
Could we see Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock and Venom in the fourth movie? He does appear in the No Way Home credits scene but is taken back to his own universe. (More on him later.)