New Spider-Man trailer brings Hulk and Punisher into Peter Parker’s fight
Sony’s latest Brand New Day trailer shows Peter Parker facing a mutation, an unseen threat and help from Bruce Banner and Frank Castle.
By Hana Yoshida · Markets Reporter
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Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, setting up Peter Parker’s first big-screen return since 2021’s No Way Home. The film matters for Marvel’s Spider-Man run because it picks up after Peter erased himself from the memories of the people closest to him.
Brand New Day is scheduled to open in theaters on July 31, 2026. Destin Daniel Cretton, whose credits include Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, directs the movie.
The official synopsis says the story begins four years after No Way Home. Peter is living alone as an adult after choosing to remove himself from the lives and memories of the people he loves, while continuing to fight crime in New York as Spider-Man.
The synopsis also says the pressure of that work triggers an unexpected physical change that could endanger Peter’s life. At the same time, a new pattern of crimes points toward one of the strongest threats he has faced.
Tom Holland returns as Peter Parker and Spider-Man. Zendaya is back as MJ, and Jacob Batalon returns as Ned Leeds, Peter’s former best friend.
The cast also includes Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle, the Punisher; Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, the Hulk; Michael Mando as Mac Gargan, also known as Scorpion; Marvin Jones III as Lonnie Lincoln, or Tombstone; and Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, Daredevil. Sadie Sink, Liza Colon-Zayas and Trammell Tillman appear in undisclosed roles, according to the film information released with the trailer.
Peter turns to Bruce Banner
A March trailer showed Peter waking up covered in webbing and seeking Banner’s help. In that footage, Banner raised the possibility that Peter’s DNA was mutating and warned that such a change would be “enormously dangerous.”
The new trailer continues that thread. Peter asks Banner whether he can remove the harmful parts of the change while keeping the useful ones. Banner answers by asking, “How would you decide what parts of nature are good or bad?”
The footage also shows Peter dealing with a threat other people apparently cannot see. The trailer presents Peter as the only person unaffected by the strange force and the only one able to sense it.
Banner appears as an ally, with the trailer showing him becoming the Hulk when the danger escalates. Peter is also shown trying to protect MJ, who still does not remember the reality they shared before the spell in No Way Home.
Frank Castle’s role is framed more sharply in the new footage. The trailer includes Castle giving Peter a blunt warning: “If you’re gonna do something you’d better do it now.”
No Way Home ended with Peter asking Doctor Strange, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, to make the world forget him in order to protect the multiverse, including MJ. Brand New Day now follows that isolated version of Peter as his powers and his city both change around him.
This story draws on original reporting from Ars Technica.