Sony Swings Peter Parker into Isolation with Spider-Man Brand New Day Trailer

Four years after the spell that completely erased Peter Parker’s name and face, he swings around New York as the city’s unseen guardian. However, no one appears to remember him. People he used to rely on no longer recognize him on the street. At night, he spends his time looking around social media, checking out how MJ and Ned are doing at MIT. Then you see Zendaya as MJ, who is now seeing someone new, and Jacob Batalon as Ned, as if they are just going about their lives while Peter is stranded in a time warp.

Tom Holland plays Peter as someone running on empty, the wisecracking kid who used to trade jokes mid-fight now visibly worn down by everything he has been carrying. He is still showing up for every crisis that comes his way, but the loneliness is clearly starting to catch up with him. Keith David narrates over the trailer in that unmistakable low rumble of his, drawing a parallel between Peter’s journey and the three life cycles of a spider. Peter has reached the final one, and whatever comes next could go in any direction.

Mark Ruffalo turns up as Bruce Banner, not the Hulk, just the calm and measured scientist, examining Peter’s blood and talking about metamorphosis in a way that almost sounds reassuring at first. Then Banner drops the other shoe, warning that things could get very bad before they get better. The trailer punctuates that with a shot of Peter firing webs directly from his wrists, no mechanical web shooters in sight. They look organic, rawer than anything we have seen from him before, and while they carry echoes of something ancient, they are very much part of whatever Peter is becoming right now.

Jon Bernthal brings in the Punisher, Frank Castle, to join forces with Peter, while Sadie Sink appears briefly on screen as a hooded figure, giving the impression that her appearance will be kept well and completely secret. By the conclusion, you’re left wondering if Peter will be able to get his life back on track before whatever is going on inside of him takes over.

Destin Daniel Cretton directs, and the script is written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommer. It’s also Peter Holland’s final solo film before the much bigger Avengers events begin in Doomsday. Now the only question fans might be left pondering is why July 31st couldn’t come sooner.