Tom Holland has dropped a cryptic tease regarding the ending of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and said that the movie’s title will be explained in its final frame.
Speaking in an interview featured within the just-launched Generations: The Evolution of Spider-Man documentary that dropped today on Disney+ in the U.S., Holland gave yet another hint at his upcoming Spidey blockbuster.
“The ‘Brand New Day’ of this movie, it isn’t the beginning,” Holland hinted. “It’s the last frame of this movie.”
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Many had assumed that “Brand New Day” referred to the fact that this new movie is the first in a fresh chapter for Peter Parker. Older and no longer a student, living alone and without his friend or girlfriend, Brand New Day showcases a more adult version of the character that Tom Holland has played for the past decade.
But apparently there’s more to it than that, and fans are already speculating what Holland might mean. Some have pointed to the fact that his comment is then followed by a potentially-deliberate shot of Peter Parker’s eyes turning black, taken from the film’s last trailer. Is this a result of the mutations his character appears to be going through — gaining organic webs, for one — or something else?
With just a few weeks to go until Brand New Day arrives in theaters, much of the movie’s plot still remains a closely-guarded secret. Sony won’t even reveal who Sadie Sink, one of the film’s main stars, is actually playing. There has been huge speculation that she is the X-Men Jean Grey, and that she and Peter Parker will share a bond in having mutated DNA. But other fans believe that Spider-Man’s new abilities will prompt the return of the Venom symbiote — last seen in the post-credits scene from Spider-Man: No Way Home.
“I feel like it low-key teased the whole ‘Symbiote revives Peter out of the grave’ ending,” Marvel fan Colton826 wrote on reddit, in a thread discussing Holland’s tease. One popular theory is that Peter Parker will die during the film, though the Chekhov’s gun of the Venom syndicate will be used to revive him.
“I just can’t believe that a movies whose core theme is about the feeling of loneliness and depression ends with Spider-Man dying,” countered El_Can_R.
“Maybe [it’s] just Peter fully embracing all the changes in his body that happened due to the mutation he went through in this movie,” suggested No-Student6619, “meaning that these changes are in fact permanent, and fully accepting that his life isn’t going to be the same anymore and that he needs to move on from his past life that he won’t be able to fully restore.”
We’ve not got long to wait now until Spider-Man: Brand New Day finally arrives on July 31 and we finally get some answers. In the meantime, the movie’s press tour has already begun, with the ever-chatty Holland revealing that “one person” still remembers Peter Parker is Spider-Man, and discussing his potential involvement in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars — which he has suggested he will feature in.
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