Biological changes and loneliness aren’t the only problems Peter Parker will have to deal with in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Since no one in the world, including Happy Hogan, remembers him after No Way Home, Peter no longer has access to Stark Industries technology. That means no nano suit or cutting edge weaponry. Fortunately, as the film’s screenplay shows, he won’t be completely out of luck. He knows how to build his own useful superhero tools.
The first three annotated pages of the Spider-Man: Brand New Day script shared by Entertainment Weekly reveal just how important Peter Parker’s mysterious physical change will be to the film’s plot. That’s a matter for biologists, though. What about the concerns of engineers on both Earth-616 and our own? The screenplay also covers that. It reveals how Spider-Man will get by without the late Tony Stark’s tech. He’ll use his own modified devices to help with his suit, crimefighting, and his loneliness.
“No more Stark money or gadgets,” reads a handwritten note on page one of the script. “All of his tech needs to have been made by Peter.” That homemade tech will include E.V., which the script says is Peter’s AI Assistant. While the script shows the program running numbers after he asks it to “check the calibration” on his “targeting matrix,” she also fills another role in his life. Another annotation says that “sadly” E.V. is “the closest thing Peter has to a friend.”
Aww.
Peter also came up with a way to maintain and patch up his new, homemade super suit. (It’s made with “real fabric, seams, wrinkles” and inspired by his encounter with the other two Spider-Mans in No Way Home.) For that Holland’s Peter built his own “fabricator.” Another notation calls the device a “3D printer on steroids,” the kind of machine “that could be made by a kid genius w/limited funds.”
It’s very fortunate for Spider-Man that Peter Parker is a kid genius. Because when you no longer have access to Stark Industries super tech you have to get by on your own. Your own super tech.