Marvel’s New Spider-Man Just Beat Out Tom Holland For A Major Live-Action Record

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This year, the Spider-Man movie franchise from Marvel is set to achieve a remarkable milestone – but it won’t be the live-action films most people anticipate.

This summer, Marvel and Sony’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day is predicted to be a huge hit, marking Tom Holland’s fourth film as the iconic web-slinger in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But that’s not all for Spider-Man fans! In 2026, a second season of the animated Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man will arrive, and Amazon and MGM are developing a live-action Spider-Noir series starring Nicolas Cage, who originally played the 1930s detective version of Spider-Man in the popular Spider-Verse animated films.

Trailers for the upcoming MCU film, Brand New Day, hint at a major upgrade to Tom Holland’s Spider-Man’s powers, including a skill we haven’t seen in a live-action Spider-Man movie since the early 2000s. However, recent information suggests that Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir series will be the first to introduce something fans have been waiting for: Spider-Man creating his own webs organically, without needing a web-shooter.

Tom Holland’s Spider-Man Is About To Get All-New Organic Webs (Just Like Tobey Maguire)

The first trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day shows Tom Holland’s Peter Parker starting his day in a unique way: waking up suspended upside down in an alley, encased in a web. He falls out, but quickly shoots a web to save himself, proving that this version of Spider-Man will soon have the ability to create webs naturally – a power similar to the one Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man had in earlier films (and that Holland’s Peter met in Spider-Man: No Way Home). This means he won’t need his usual mechanical web-shooters.

In Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies starring Tobey Maguire, Spider-Man didn’t need to invent web shooters. The spider that gave him his powers allowed him to naturally create webs from his body.

In a surprising move, Marvel’s Spider-Man comics briefly mirrored the Spider-Man movies, featuring a transformation where Peter Parker developed natural webbing and new powers. This happened right before the major story arcs One More Day and Brand New Day. These storylines then famously rebooted much of Spider-Man’s history, including bringing back the need for his web-shooters.

It’s interesting that the new Spider-Man: Brand New Day storyline appears to be mirroring a classic Spider-Man transformation, giving Tom Holland’s Peter Parker naturally enhanced powers and removing his need to make his own web fluid. While this is a significant change not seen in live-action Spider-Man since Tobey Maguire, it seems another Spider-hero will actually be the first to experience it.

Surprisingly, Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir Is Going To Have Organic Webbing Too (Before Holland)

New footage from the upcoming Spider-Noir film confirms Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Man will be the first live-action version to shoot webs directly from his body, a trait not seen since Tobey Maguire’s portrayal.

While Spider-Man usually relies on built-in web shooters, the trailer for the new Spider-Noir shows Nicolas Cage’s version generating webs naturally. These webs are black and stand out as he swings through the grayscale, 1930s setting of New York City.

The animated series Spider-Noir will start streaming in late May, before the live-action Spider-Man: Brand New Day arrives at the end of July. This means Ben Reilly, played by Cage, will be the first live-action Spider-Man to shoot organic webs since Maguire, with Holland following shortly after.

It’s interesting that both live-action Spider-Man movies coming out this year are leaving out the character’s traditional organic web-shooters. We already know there’s a specific story reason for this change in the Tom Holland version, but it will be fascinating to find out why the filmmakers chose to do the same for Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir.

You can start watching Spider-Noir on Prime Video and MGM+ starting May 27th. Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be in movie theaters on July 31st, brought to you by Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios.

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2026-05-01 00:28