Spider-Man 4 to release in 2026; Tom Holland to star and Destin Daniel Cretton to direct

A few days after Tom Holland confirmed Spider-Man 4 in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Sony confirmed the release date of the film to be on July 24, 2026. Destin Daniel Cretton, who earlier directed the Marvel film Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, will helm the sequel to the 2021 film Spider-Man: No Way Home. 

Jon Watts directed the first three Spider-Man installments starring Holland: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and No Way Home. All three films were well received by the audiences and were big successes at the box office. The three films have grossed a combined amount of $3.96 billion. 

Neither Holland nor the makers have confirmed Zendaya's return to the franchise, though in a recent statement, Holland said, ""We have working on it now, we have a creative and a pitch and a draft which is excellent, it leads work but the writers are doing a great job. I read it 3 weeks ago and it really like lit a fire in me. Zendaya and I sat down and read it together and we at times were bouncing around the living room, like this is a real movie worthy of fans’ respect. There’s a few things we need to figure out before we can get that really going but it’s exciting and I’m really excited about it."