Avengers: Doomsday Means Spider-Man: Brand New Day Arrives First, and Fans Hope This Means It'll Be a More Grounded Story

Disney's melodramatic hold to Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, announced past night, means fans volition hold longer to spot Earth's mightiest heroes assemble again connected screen.

Avengers: Doomsday volition present get 7 months' later, connected December 18, 2026. Secret Wars, meanwhile, volition get a twelvemonth aft that, connected December 17, 2027. But successful among each this, fans are besides talking astir Spider-Man.

Tom Holland's Peter Parker is besides acceptable to instrumentality adjacent year, successful the highly-anticipated Spider-Man: Brand New Day connected 31 July, 2026 . This movie volition prime up Peter's communicative pursuing the events of No Way Home, wherever his individuality was erased from the world's memory.

Before Disney's delay, Spider-Man: Brand New Day would person arrived aft Avengers: Doomsday, arsenic a Tom Holland-flavoured MCU sandwich filling betwixt Doomsday and Secret Wars. There had been reports that Disney and Sony had been exploring different communicative filled with multiversal shenanigans befitting of the MCU's existent era.

Now, Spider-Man: Brand New Day — which is inactive yet to statesman filming — volition get up of either Avengers movie, thing fans anticipation gives the adjacent Spidey communicative immoderate breathing room, and perchance a much grounded communicative acceptable astatine the Marvel universe's thoroughfare level.

Picture the erstwhile concern for a moment. Avengers: Doomsday apt leaves audiences connected a large cliffhanger, akin to Avengers: Infinity War, ensuring audiences turns up to spot the solution successful the adjacent film. Spider-Man, arsenic a cardinal subordinate of the Avengers, is apt progressive — oregon if not, his lack has to beryllium explained. In this context, Brand New Day either has to prime up from this, somehow, beryllium acceptable beforehand, oregon disregard the stakes going connected elsewhere.

"That wholly changes things for Spider-Man 4," 1 instrumentality wrote connected reddit regarding the delay, and Brand New Day present coming first. "At slightest successful the framing of however we thought it NEEDED to beryllium successful betwixt some films timeline-wise. Now it sounds similar it won't be."

"If Spider-Man: Brand New Day isn't [also] delayed I deliberation that fundamentally would corroborate it isn't a multiverse conflict satellite movie," a 3rd wrote, referencing the holding determination Marvel's heroes are near astatine wrong the comics during the archetypal Secret Wars storyline.

In general, Spider-Man fans keen to spot much of the quality successful his ain story, backmost swinging done the streets of New York alternatively than being dragged into abstraction with the Avengers. For many, Disney's hold is simply a positive.

"This is the champion Spider-Man 4 quality we've gotten," wrote 1 fan.

"With [Brand New Day] coming earlier Doomsday this afloat allows a grounded story, which lines up with the rumours and casting lately," wrote another, referencing whispers online astir villains being formed to acceptable a regular, New York-set episode.

Earlier this month, Liza Colón-Zayas, champion known for playing Tina Marrero connected FX’s The Bear, was reportedly formed successful Brand New Day. Fans fishy she's playing the parent of Miles Morales — the alternate mentation of Spider-Man who is hotly-tipped to look successful live-action aft the character's popularity successful Sony's Spider-Verse animated films.

As portion of the changes to its merchandise docket announced past night, Disney besides removed an untitled Marvel task from its docket acceptable to motorboat connected February 13, 2026. Fans fishy this had been a placeholder for the long-delayed Blade reboot acceptable to prima Mahershala Ali, which present looks acceptable to skip this saga of the MCU altogether, if it ever materialises.

Other Marvel movie dates, for November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2027, person besides been altered to present notation to "Untitled Disney" films. If these stay projects are not linked to the Marvel universe, the MCU volition person a comparatively airy movie docket implicit the coming years.

The remainder of 2025 includes The Fantastic Four: First Steps connected the large surface successful July, portion TV bid Ironheart and Wonder-Man are acceptable to debut connected Disney+.

Next year's Disney+ shows volition see Daredevil Born Again's 2nd play (expected successful the spring), a Punisher one-off peculiar presentation, and Vision Quest, the Paul Bettany-fronted bid that has present softly begun filming.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social