Spider-Man 4 Casts Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink to Star Alongside Tom Holland, Reportedly as Either X-Men Favorite Jean Grey or Mary Jane Watson

Sadie Sink, who plays Max Mayfield successful Stranger Things, is reportedly acceptable to prima alongside Tom Holland successful Spider-Man 4.

Deadline reports that Sink, who made her movie debut successful the 2016 biographical sports play Chuck, volition look successful the upcoming MCU movie, which begins filming aboriginal this twelvemonth and has a merchandise day of July 31, 2026.

Marvel and Sony had nary remark erstwhile contacted by Deadline.

Could Saide Sink play Jean Grey successful Spider-Man 4? Photo by Arturo Holmes/WireImage,

Deadline speculates that Sink volition play either X-Men quality Jean Grey oregon “another beloved redheaded Spider-Man character.” That suggests Mary Jane Watson, but rather however her instauration would acceptable into Peter Parker’s ongoing narration with Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson, played by Zendaya successful the erstwhile Spider-Man films, remains to beryllium seen. Deadline sounds assured Sink has a “significant” relation successful Spider-Man 4, which could beryllium thing of a reset fixed the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home. In that film, Peter reintroduces himself to MJ aft Doctor Strange erases his individuality from everyone’s memory.

Holland is presently filming Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the program is for him to commencement shooting Spider-Man erstwhile helium has finished production, Deadline reported.

Jean Grey successful the comics. Image credit: Marvel Comics.

Late past year, Marvel Studios brag Kevin Feige teased the instauration of X-Men characters successful the "next few" MCU movies.

Feige told an assemblage astatine the Disney APAC Content Showcase successful Singapore that fans would spot “some X-Men players that you mightiness recognize” successful the adjacent fewer MCU movies, but helium stopped abbreviated of saying which characters oregon what movies.

On bringing the X-Men into the MCU, Feige added: “I deliberation you volition spot that continues successful our adjacent fewer movies with immoderate X-Men players that you mightiness recognize.

“Right aft that, the full communicative of Secret Wars truly leads america into a caller property of mutants and of the X-Men. Again, [it’s] 1 of those dreams travel true. We yet person the X-Men back.”

At the time, Marvel’s adjacent fewer movies, if we presume fewer to mean three, were Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts*, and past Phase Six kickstarter The Fantastic Four: First Steps successful July 2025.

Perhaps much apt are much mutant appearances passim Phase 6 movies, which see 2026’s Avengers: Doomsday and Spider-Man 4, and 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars. One of the cardinal questions present volition beryllium whether Deadpool and Wolverine instrumentality to the MCU having seen specified immense occurrence with their ain movie this summer. Could Channing Tatum besides reprise his relation arsenic Gambit?

Feige has besides said the X-Men volition beryllium an important portion of the MCU’s aboriginal pursuing Secret Wars. "When we were preparing for Avengers: Endgame years ago, it was a question of getting to the expansive finale of our narrative, and past we had to commencement each implicit again aft that,” Feige said. “This time, connected the roadworthy to Secret Wars, we already cognize precise good what the communicative is going to beryllium until past and afterwards. The X-Men are an important portion of that future.”

It sounds similar Phase 7 of the MCU volition beryllium dominated by the X-Men, then, but successful the abbreviated term, Storm appeared successful What If...? Season 3, marking the character’s archetypal quality successful the wider MCU.

In October, Marvel Studios added 3 untitled movie projects to its 2028 merchandise schedule: February 18, 2028; May 5, 2028; and November 10, 2028. It seems progressively apt 1 of these movies is X-Men.

Photo by Arturo Holmes/WireImage.

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