Brand New Day’ Footage Teases a Big Spidey Stunt

After showing off Tom Holland in his brand new suit for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Sony continues its soft marketing launch with a new video showing its first day of production in Glasgow.

If you’ve been on social media in the past week, you’ve probably seen some snippets of filming from the public. This behind-the-scenes vignette offers a better quality of what those people saw with their own eyes, showing not just Holland wowing the crowd with his new suit (and taking pics with similarly dressed kids), but chatting with director Daniel Destin Cretton as they film a setpiece involving a tank likely in the posession of…someone; it’s unclear who, but fans have their theories about who that insignia on the side belongs to. We still don’t know who the film’s main villain is, just that Hulk, Scorpion, and Punisher are all set to appear.

Our official reason for this video is August 10 marks Peter Parker’s birthday in the MCU, referencing the cover date of Amazing Fantasy #15, where Spider-Man first debuted. But unofficially, it’s also a way for Sony to tout that Brand New Day is being shot on location, and with real stunts to boot. Spider-Man: No Way Home was dinged for its sometimes iffy visual effects, some of which was owed to it being shot during the early days of the pandemic. Those times were stressful, according to Home trilogy director Jon Watts, but Marvel’s now at a time where it wants to show its moviemaking homework. Thunderbolts was promoted with the promise of Florence Pugh jumping off a skyscraper and notable behind the camera talent, Fantastic Four used miniatures and sets, now here’s Brand New Day doing its own version of both.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day comes to theaters on July 31, 2026.

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