The Second ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Trailer Has Arrived and It’s Everything Fans Were Waiting For
Few Marvel releases in recent memory have generated the kind of cultural electricity surrounding ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’. Tom Holland returns as Peter Parker in the Sony and Marvel film, which is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and picks up four years after the events of ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’. Having voluntarily erased himself from the lives and memories of everyone he loves, Peter is now living entirely alone, crime-fighting in a New York City that no longer knows his name.
The anticipation for this installment has been building to an almost unprecedented level. The film’s first trailer, released back in March, became the first movie trailer in history to cross one billion views, hitting that milestone in just four days. Within the first 24 hours alone, it had over 718.6 million views, the biggest trailer launch ever for any movie or video game, surpassing the previous all-time record held by ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’. The bar, in other words, was already set impossibly high going into this week.
Now, as The Hollywood Handle reported, Sony has officially released a new trailer for ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’, with the film set to arrive in theaters on July 31. The announcement was made live from Amsterdam, where Tom Holland and Zendaya confirmed that tickets are also now on sale. The footage offers a much clearer look at where Holland’s Peter Parker is headed, and while many expected this chapter to lean into a grounded, street-level mode, this new trailer suggests Sony and Marvel are still going very big.
The preview’s biggest reveal is Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk, who has a far larger role than previously expected. Peter seeks out Bruce Banner, who has found a way to suppress his mutating DNA, and Banner warns that if Peter ever sees him without his inhibitor, he should run. Scenes later, Banner transforms into the Hulk right in front of Spider-Man. The trailer also confirms that Jon Bernthal’s Punisher is very much in Peter’s orbit, suggesting the two already have a working relationship established in the years between films. Meanwhile, a hooded figure with apparent telekinetic and telepathic powers continues to fuel widespread fan speculation that Sadie Sink is playing a future host of the Phoenix Force.
The trailer also keeps Peter’s emotional crisis front and center. MJ, played again by Zendaya, is now with another man, and she remains friends with Ned, played by Jacob Batalon, leaving Peter to watch the life he once had from the outside. A voiceover from Marisa Tomei’s Aunt May, who died in ‘No Way Home’, adds emotional weight, with May’s words reminding Peter that the people who love him do so because of who he is, no matter how powerful he becomes.
Sony chairman Tom Rothman, who celebrated the trailer milestone at CinemaCon, described the film as both the biggest thing the studio has ever made and unlike anything they have made before, adding that Holland delivers his finest performance yet. The film is written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, with Amy Pascal and Kevin Feige producing. Given everything packed into this latest look, the debate over whether this is Holland’s best chapter yet is already well underway in comment sections everywhere, and we’d love to hear where you land on that after watching the new trailer.
