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The hits keep coming in Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s first trailer

The Verge / 3/18/2026

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  • The Verge reports the first trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day has been released, signaling Marvel and Sony's push for a new chapter in Peter Parker's story.
  • The trailer portrays Peter Parker living a lonely life as a secret crimefighter, even as memories of his past linger and shape his present.
  • It suggests strained relationships with MJ and Ned and features the Punisher as a fellow New York vigilante figure.
  • The trailer signals a narrative shift that emphasizes Peter's isolation and existential crisis in a reimagined Spider-Man storyline.
Spider-Man swinging through downtown Manhattan.

The first trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day is finally here, and it looks like Marvel and Sony are about to put Peter Parker through a different kind of existential crisis.

Though nobody in Brand New Day's trailer knows who Peter (Tom Holland) is or that he's the one saving people as Spider-Man, he still has vivid memories from the past when he was still close with MJ Watson (Zendaya) and Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon). Peter seems to have made peace with his "new" life as a secret crimefighter butting heads with villains and other New York vigilante fixtures like the Punisher (Jon Bernthal). But with all memory of him erased, life is lonely …

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