After staying quiet on their plans beyond 2025, Marvel Studios has quite clearly been working hard behind the scenes on getting its 2026 slate put together. Once the studio made the decision to pivot to Doctor Doom as the new centerpiece of the Multiverse Saga in Avengers: Doomsday, other pieces started to become easier to put into place. And so while projects such as Blade, Armor Wars and a Shang-Chi sequel face uncertain futures, other projects have started to gather some momentum.
Among the projects that have begun moving forward at the studio is the highly-anticipated fourth installment in Sony and Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man franchise. Following rumors of a major overhaul to the film’s script, the studios finally found a director for the project in Destin Daniel Cretton. That news paired with recent reports that Tom Holland‘s new deal with the studios will see him play major roles in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars and that the star would be incredibly busy in the first half of 2025 provided hope that Spider-Man 4 would be ready for a 2026 release. Now, a new report may add a little more fuel to that particular fire.
According to Production List, production on Spider-Man 4 is currently slated to begin in January 2025.
Paired with additional news from Production List that Avengers: Doomsday is slated for an April start of principal photography, it looks as though Holland will have a three-month window to film his scenes for Spider-Man 4 before jumping into work on the fifth Avengers film. That timeline is indeed consistent with the filming windows for the three previous MCU-set Spidey films, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
As encouraging as things sound, Production List is NOT a trade and neither Marvel nor Sony have provided any official updates on Spider-Man 4. So as compelling as it is to believe a growing collection of circumstantial evidence, don’t mark anything on your calendars just yet.
Source: Production List
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