Every Spider-Man movie is a huge deal, but Sony and Marvel’s latest Peter Parker partnership is an especially important big-screen installment for the friendly neighborhood superhero. No one on Earth-616 knows who Peter is after Spider-Man: No Way Home. What will that mean for the beloved webbed slinger in Spider-Man: Brand New Day? The first three pages from Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s script show that overwhelming loneliness won’t just cause him emotional harm. It’s also going to take a physical toll on him. And that could mean we really are getting Man-Spider. Here’s the biggest reveal we found in Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s newly released script.
Entertainment Weekly shared the first three pages from the script for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The pages also include insightful annotations and notes from director Destin Daniel Cretton, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Director of Photography Brett Pawlak, and other department heads. There’s some very fun stuff in here, including news that the film will feature a new “Marvel Studios” title card sequence. This new opening will show all of the memories Peter no longer shares with his loved ones, disappearing him from them. The Spider-Man: Brand New Day script also reveals a big opening action sequence and how Spider-Man is adapting to no longer having access to Stark Tech. (It helps being a young genius with engineering and coding skills.) But the biggest focus is on Peter’s growing loneliness… and we feel like that’s gearing up to reveal something very important.
From following Ned and MJ on social media, to staring at momentos that remind him of the both, to re-reading the letter he didn’t send MJ nine months prior at the end of No Way Home, Holland’s Peter is a sad, lonely guy. He’s also clearly about to go through something. The most intriguing revelation from the Spider-Man: Brand New Day script pages comes almost immediately on page one. Here’s what the script says about what happens while he’s loading a web shooter (italics are as written in the screenplay):
Suddenly, he gets a small, sharp headache (our first inkling that living completely in the shadows is taking its toll on Peter — something is changing, and maybe not for the better…) Peter shakes it off, hoping it’s nothing.
The film’s trailers have hinted at Peter evolving, possibly even mutating. As we covered, they’ve also teased the possibility that the film could introduce Man-Spider. That would definitely qualify as Peter “changing,” a word important enough that the Spider-Man: Brand New Day script italicized it on page one.
We no longer have an “inkling” about how important this change will be. Whatever is going to happen to Peter physically is clearly going to play a huge, huge role in the film. It’s a major enough plot point that it’s arguably the first idea the Spider-Man: Brand New Day script develops. It’s going to be a big deal in a movie that is already a big deal.
We can’t wait to see the Spider-Man: Brand New Day script come to life. The Spidey movie releases on July 31, 2026.