With just two weeks to go until Spider-Man: Brand New Day, today brings the film’s final trailer — which contains a few new shots from the upcoming blockbuster.
If you’ve been checked out of the MCU for a while, or can’t remember what happened back in Spider-Man: No Way Home, the first half of this trailer acts as something of a quick-fire recap. We see a young-looking Tom Holland meeting best pal Ned and dating girlfriend MJ, before both are made to forget his existence. (Tom Holland and Zendaya have great chemistry for some reason! Who knew.)
If you’re looking for all-new shots, however, the trailer has only a few. There’s a snippet more of Bruce Banner in full Hulk mode (“No Banner!” he roars. “Only Hulk!”), and a new quip from Spider-Man as he takes on a cluster of ninja monks from criminal group The Hand (“Could we do this one at a time, please?!). The trailer then concludes with a fun moment from Ned, who realizes that Spider-Man is in the building… just as he notices the superhero standing right in front of him.
There’s clearly still a lot from the film that Marvel and Sony are not showing — and with this being described as the final trailer, it really does feel like the film’s promotional campaign has now revealed everything it’s going to ahead of the movie’s launch in theaters on July 31.
On the one hand, some fans will undoubtedly be disappointed that this final trailer did not show more. But with the film so close and numerous secrets still under wraps, perhaps the time has come to leave the remaining answers for your first viewing.
Only then will we find out who Sadie Sink is playing, who the real villain of the film will be, whether Ned and MJ will get their memories back, and where exactly the movie will leave Peter Parker ahead of Marvel’s impending Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.
All of that said, there’s still plenty to chew over as the days tick down until the movie’s launch. Only this morning, director Destin Daniel Cretton revealed that he was keeping the identity of Sadie Sink’s character a secret until fans see the film for a “very real reason” that he believes fans won’t “get mad at”, despite all the secrecy. The mystery behind who the Stranger Things alum is playing has dominated online conversation around the film to date.
Sink has been almost entirely absent in trailers (you can spot her briefly in today’s trailer, though in a re-used shot where she’s completely obscured beneath a large coat and hood). Still, Sink has now begun giving interviews on Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s promotional tour, with rather amusingly tight-lipped results. Online, however, most fans are now pretty convinced that Sink has been cast as X-Men star Jean Grey.
As for the movie’s star, Tom Holland recently revealed that the film’s title would only make sense in “the final frame of the movie”, something Cretton has since backed up. “The title, to me, does reflect where he ends up,” the director acknowledged. “The journey of this movie is about searching for that feeling of a brand-new day. I don’t think he really has that feeling in the beginning of this movie.”
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
