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MCU Spider-Man 4, 5 & 6 With Tom Holland In The Works, Reveals Sony
Amy Pascal confirms Tom Holland will continue as Peter Parker after Spider-Man: No Way Home. With less than three weeks to go before the latest Sony and Marvel Studios' collaboration project premieres in theaters, fans can already expect to see more of the wall-crawler in the MCU. Despite previous rumors, Spider-Man: No Way Home will not end Holland's stint as the superhero as there are already plans for his future films in the franchise.
On the heels of The Amazing Spider-Man 2's failure, Kevin Feige was able to convince Sony to share Spider-Man with Marvel Studios in 2015. This started the companies' partnership and by 2016, Holland joined the MCU through Captain America: Civil War. Since then, he has played the role four more times — two of which were in his solo flicks, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home. The other two instances were in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Now, Holland's Peter Parker is set to star in his third standalone journey which is hyped up to be his biggest personal adventure yet.
Beyond Spider-Man: No Way Home, however, not much has been known about the character's fate — until now. In a new interview with Fandango, Pascal confirms that they are already planning new films with Marvel Studios with the intention of keeping the wall-crawler in the MCU for the foreseeable future. According to her, they are developing at least another trilogy. Read her full comments below:
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"This is not the last movie that we are going to make with Marvel – [this is not] the last Spider-Man movie. We are getting ready to make the next Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland and Marvel. We're thinking of this as three films, and now we're going to go onto the next three. This is not the last of our MCU movies."
The historic collaboration between Marvel Studios and Sony almost ended prematurely in 2019, leaving Spider-Man's cinematic fate was in limbo. Fortunately, both parties were able to find a middle ground, drafting a new deal that would keep the character in the MCU. While the terms of the renegotiations have been mostly kept a secret, they decided that Marvel Studios will produce at least two more films with Holland's Spider-Man — one of which is Spider-Man: No Way Home, while the other is a currently untitled project, that's mostly an ensemble flick. Sony maintains ownership of the character, with the possibility of him appearing in its own Spider-Man universe. It's unclear how this new planned Spider-Man trilogy affects the existing deal, but at least now fans can be assured that the wall-crawler isn't going anywhere.
In any case, continuing Marvel Studios and Sony's partnership is a win-win for both camps. Given their films' successes thus far, this makes sense from a business standpoint, especially for Sony considering that their struggles sustaining a long-running Spider-Man franchise. Marvel Studios' gain, on the other hand, is mostly creative-based. Holland's Spider-Man is becoming one of the new faces of the MCU after the Infinity Saga. Given the character's age, the franchise can continue to develop his arc. Fortunately, Spider-Man has no scarcity of great stories from the comics that they can pull from after Spider-Man: No Way Home.
