Spider-Man: Brand New Day marks the start of a new era for Tom Holland‘s Spider-Man. The character will certainly benefit from this significant change in the MCU.
When Peter Parker was first introduced in Captain America: Civil War, he was a high school student attempting to fight crime in his neighborhood. Tony Stark immediately brought Peter into the fold and asked him to fight for his side in a battle against Captain America and other heroes.
After Civil War, the stakes remained at an all-time high as Spider-Man eventually helped the Avengers fight Thanos. The web crawler then fought villains from the multiverse in Spider-Man: No Way Home before asking Doctor Strange to create a spell for the world to forget his identity. Every recent battle for Spider-Man has been life-or-death with otherworldly consequences.
Why Brand New Day’s change will help Tom Holland’s Spider-Man
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is going back to basics. According to Marvel boss Kevin Feige, Brand New Day will feature the MCU’s most accurate version of Spider-Man that mirrors the comics yet, something that fans have wanted to see.
“It is the first Spider-Man film that we’ve made in the MCU that is focused on the classic elements of Spider-Man,” Feige said in an interview with Empire. “He’s doing the Spidey thing of living in a rather sad, small apartment, listening to the police scanner and going out and using his great power responsibly.”
This more grounded approach allows Peter to be the “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man” that he’s always wanted to be. In that same Empire interview, producer Amy Pascal said that Brand New Day is more of an “internal movie” and “the bigness of it is emotional, not worlds exploding.”
Brand New Day is shaping up to be the perfect reset for Holland’s Spider-Man. He will inevitably help the Avengers at some point in their battle against Doctor Doom, but it’s refreshing to see him inserted into a story where he doesn’t need to save the world. It’s a chance to see the city-dwelling Spider-Man that fans loved from the comics, one without Iron Man’s technology or an extinction-level battle against Thanos.
Originally reported by Dan Girolamo for SuperHeroHype.
