For as long as there are webs to sling and walls to crawl on, Spider-Man will be one of pop culture’s most beloved heroes. That said, it hasn’t always been easy to leverage that popularity into a film franchise that lasts. No Spider-Man saga has ever made it beyond an initial trilogy, though not for lack of trying. Director Sam Raimi was once developing a fourth Spider-Man film, with Tobey Maguire set to reprise his role as Peter Parker, in the early 2010s, but producers at Sony eventually scrapped the idea in favor of a reboot. Meanwhile, Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man saga never made more than two movies. But Sony’s joint venture with Marvel, which brought Tom Holland’s Spidey into the latter’s cinematic universe, might just break that curse for good.
After the success of Spider-Man: No Way Home, there’s been plenty of interest in a fourth Spidey film starring Holland. The actor has shared steady updates about the potential film, and while the 2023 writers’ strike stalled the project, pieces have since been falling into place. Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton has been named as a potential director, and The Hollywood Reporter claimed that filming would begin in early 2025. That report has since been confirmed by Holland himself, who shared the latest update during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
