Spider-Man: Brand New Day footage shows it’s fixing a big No Way Home mistake
Filming onSpider-Man: Brand New Dayis well underway, and based on some exciting footage from the set, it’s taken heed of one of the major criticisms of No Way Home.
Here’s what we know about Brand New Day: Tom Holland is back,Zendaya will return as MJ(in a smaller capacity), Jon Bernthal is crossing over to the big screen as The Punisher,Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk will appear(potentially as a villain), and it’s expected to tee upAvengers: Doomsday.
There’s one reason it’s particularly exciting for Spidey fans: for the first time in the MCU, we’ll get to see Holland’s Peter broke, alone, probably quite unhappy, and fighting crime as a friendly neighborhood wall-crawler.
That means we should see him swinging through the city’s streetsa lot, and it’s an opportunity for director Destin Daniel Cretton to redeem the franchise’s otherwise rubbish webslinging scenes.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has practical web-swinging
Footage captured byLogan8885andNafanfrom the set of Spider-Man: Brand New Day shows Holland’s stunt double swinging from side to side on a rig. It’s believed to be part of an extensive action sequence with Spider-Man chasing down a tank (which may have aconnection to Mister Negative).
Tom Holland’s stunt double practicing web swinging on the ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ set(via:@Logan8885_)pic.twitter.com/7TNVaOo9mx
If you cast your mind back to all of Holland’s films, the swinging scenes are among the weakest in the entire cinematic canon of Spider-Man. Under Jon Watts and the Russo Brothers, they were either too brief, jankily edited and shot, or they leaned too much on CGI.
The final swing in No Way Home is especially poor (excluding that one shot of him soaring down towards the ice rink). The way the camera moves around Spider-Man doesn’t make sense, compromising what should have been one of the most uplifting moments in the film.
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In an earlier interview withCollider, Watts even said: “I have a very practical bit of Spider-Man advice, and I think every Spider-Man director goes through it. It doesn’t look good when someone is just swinging on a rope.
“You think you’re gonna go in there, you’re like, ‘We’re gonna do it all practical. We’re gonna get a stuntman. We’re gonna be swinging around.’ It’s boring. It looks dumb. It looks like a monkey swinging on a vine when you put someone on just a rope. Don’t waste your time. That’s my advice to the next Spider-Man director.”
This is the kind of sauce Tom Holland needspic.twitter.com/ZTtxoVmU6D
That’s not to say Sam Raimi’s trilogy and Andrew Garfield’s films were all practical, but there’s a reason fans still share the swinging scenes from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (a movie that’s generally regarded as the worst in the franchise): they look and feel phenomenal.
“Finally we’re getting an MCU Spider-Man film where he actually web slings from skyskrapers that isn’t just a final swing scene,” one userposted.
“Already looks to have way more sauce than what [Jon] Watts did,” anotherwrote. “Web swinging that isn’t on a sound stage, I love this,” a thirdtweeted. “New suit and practical swinging I truly believe this might be a special moment for Spidey fans,” a fourthwrote.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be released on August 01, 2025. In the meantime, check out our rundown ofevery upcoming MCU movie,our ranking of the MCU movies, and find out what else is dropping this year with our2025 movie calendar.
