Peter Parker and Miles Morales Return: New Dates Set for 'Spider-Man' and 'Spider-Verse' Sequels
Tom Holland's 'Spider-Man Brand New Day' and Shameik Moore's 'Beyond the Spider-Verse' have set release dates.
When we last saw Tom Holland‘s Peter Parker in Spider-Man: No Way Home, he was only just beginning to grapple with the crushing reality of being forgotten by everyone he’s ever known. That was in December 2021, long enough ago that for a moment it started to feel like he’d been erased in real life, too. Luckily, the fourth installation of Holland’s Spider-Man series is jogging our memory not only with an official title, but also an exact release date.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day will hit theaters on July 31, 2026, just over four-and-a-half years after No Way Home. During a video appearance at CinemaCon late Monday evening, Holland called the film “a fresh start,” with director Destin Daniel Cretton adding: “I’m spending my time exploring the next stage of this amazing character with a team of the most incredible artists in the world … We’re all, just daily, nerding out over the suit, how to swing, how to create an event, an emotional story, and a ride that we haven’t really seen before.”
Speaking of things we haven’t seen before, Spider-Verse fans will have to wait a little while longer for Shameik Moore‘s return as Miles Morales in the animated world of Spider-Man. The most recent installation of the series, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, arrived in June 2023. The two-part film ended on a wild cliffhanger that was only supposed to be drawn out for a few months. Instead, the release date for the third (and supposedly final) movie in the series was removed from Sony Pictures’ 2024 schedule in the aftermath of the Hollywood strikes.
Now, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse has landed a release date for June 4, 2027. The additional two-year wait is likely a result of other, non-strike related issues that reportedly led to the animated sequel’s delay. People who worked on Across the Spider-Verse claimed that their working conditions were not conducive to producing the type of intricate animation that defined the series with Into the Spider-Verse premiered to widespread acclaim in 2018.
At CinemaCon, Sony Pictures previewed Beyond the Spider-Verse with a clip of Miles Morales declaring: “Everyone keeps telling me how my story is supposed to go. I’m gonna do my own thing.” Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson directed the film, which also sees the return of Hailee Steinfeld as Spider-Gwen.