No Way Home Was Great, But I'm Glad Marvel Is Rebooting Tom Holland's Spider-Man

But now that he’s been forgotten by everyone, and lost his two most beloved mentors and parental figures, he’s on his own in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. He’s back to being your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, living in a dump that he can barely afford while trying to balance his webslinging vigilante career with the career that actually pays the bills.

In a recent interview with Empire magazine, MCU architect Kevin Feige confirmed what we already knew: this is a fresh start for the MCU’s Spider-Man. Brand New Day, as its title would suggest, is bringing Spidey back to his comic book roots. Feige said, “He’s doing the Spidey thing of living in a rather sad, small apartment, listening to the police scanner, going out, and using his great power responsibly.”

Brand New Day Is Bringing Spider-Man Back To His Comic Book Roots

The MCU’s first solo Spider-Man movie included a meta wink to the audience in its title. Spider-Man: Homecoming takes place during Peter’s freshman year of high school, and it all culminates at the homecoming dance where his date turns out to be the Vulture’s daughter. But it also refers to Spidey’s own “homecoming,” as he returned to the Marvel banner after a couple of decades of Sony-exclusive Spider-Man movies disconnected from other superhero franchises.

Brand New Day is doing the same thing. That title is taken from the 2008 comic book storyline of the same name, which seems to have loosely influenced the film, but it also refers to the soft internal reboot happening in this movie. It’s definitely continuing the story of the Home trilogy, bringing back Ned and M.J. and reintroducing Spidey into the Avengers lineup with a Hulk collab, but it’s also kicking off its own trilogy with its own vibe.

Based on its trailer, Brand New Day seems to be a relatively gritty and grounded Spider-Man movie. No Way Home opened up portals to alternate dimensions and had three separate Spider-Men fighting their combined rogues’ gallery with reality itself hanging in the balance. And even that was more grounded than the space travel he did in Infinity War and the alien massacre he committed on “insta-kill” mode in Endgame. Brand New Day is bringing Spidey back down to Earth, literally and figuratively, as he takes on a handful of local C-list supervillains like Tarantula and the Scorpion and the Hand.

I’ve loved everything I’ve seen of Spider-Man: Brand New Day so far, and I’m convinced it’ll be a great movie. Director Destin Daniel Cretton has a spotless track record in the MCU, and he seems to have his own distinctive take on the wallcrawler, a la Sam Raimi. After a few years of glossy, weightless, nanotech-infused, CG Spidey suits, just the fact that you can see wrinkles in the fabric of his actual, physical, non-CG costume has me excited.

Source: Empire