New rumors have surfaced for Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures’ upcoming Spider-Man 4 film claiming that the movie will not feature the multiverse, but will be an “Avengers level event.”
Tom Holland as Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Marvel Studios
These two rumors come from scoopers Can We Get Some Toast and My Time To Shine Hello and come in the wake of a report from Borys Kit in The Hollywood Reporter revealing that Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton is in talks to direct Spider-Man 4 with Tom Holland returning to play Peter Parker.
Along with revealing Cretton is in talks to be the director, the report also shared that Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers are returning to pen the script. McKenna and Sommers both wrote the previous three Spider-Man films that includes Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
(L-R): Director Destin Daniel Cretton and Simu Liu on the set of Marvel Studios’ SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS. Photo by Jasin Boland. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.
As far as the story, Kit shared that it is currently “unclear,” but he speculated it would pick up following the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home that saw the world forget that Peter Parker was Spider-Man including Zendaya’s MJ.
Furthermore, he shared that the production “is running, not crawling, full steam ahead and will shoot early next year.”
Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man and Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Sony Pictures
Following this report, Can We Get Some Toast revealed that the film is “not a multiverse movie.” He also indicated it would likely see Peter entering college for the first time.
He wrote on X, “Don’t worry it’s not a multiverse movie. At this point Pete should be around 19/20. Before the spell, him and his friends were applying for college after graduating HS!”
Don’t worry it’s not a multiverse movie.
At this point Pete should be around 19/20. Before the spell, him and his friends were applying for college after graduating HS!
— CanWeGetSomeToast (@CanWeGetToast) September 9, 2024
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My Time To Shine Hello also shared that the film “is going to be an AVENGERS level event.”
Spider-Man 4 is going to be an AVENGERS level event
— MyTimeToShineHello (@MyTimeToShineH) September 11, 2024
Cretton was originally supposed to direct Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, but that film was scrapped and replaced with Avengers: Doomsday that will see Robert Downey Jr. return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Doctor Doom.
Furthermore, directors Anthony and Joe Russo will be directing that film. Stephen McFeely, who wrote Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: End Game as well as a number of episodes of Agent Carter and the three film adaptations of The Chronicles of Narnia will be writing Doomsday.
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – JULY 27: (L-R) Joe Russo, Robert Downey Jr. and Anthony Russo speak onstage during the Marvel Studios Panel in Hall H at SDCC in San Diego, California on July 27, 2024. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney)
Spider-Man: No Way Home was a smash hit at the box office. The film grossed $1.9 billion globally off a $200 million production budget. It is the highest grossing Spider-Man film set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the highest grossing Spider-Man film of all time even factoring in inflation.
The first film, Homecoming, had a worldwide gross of $879.4 million while Far From Home grossed $1.1 billion worldwide.
Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, Tom Holland as Peter Parker, and Andrew Garfield as Peter Park in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Marvel Studios
What do you make of these rumors regarding Spider-Man 4?
