Don't Expect Any Spider-Man: Brand New Day News Out Of New York Comic-Con

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Marvel Studios has an impressive slate of films on tap for 2026, including the Tom Holland-led Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which will follow the events of 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. As New York Comic-Con 2025 fast approaches, fans just received a disappointing blow.

New York Comic-Con is slated to take place this weekend; however, per the official Instagram page for the convention, the Sony Pictures panel has been canceled and removed from the schedule. Sony is co-producing Spider-Man: Brand New Day with Marvel Studios. According to a Reddit thread, the panel was set for Oct. 11, but that is no longer the case. It was expected that Sony would perhaps showcase Brand New Day as well as the upcoming Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse at the now-canceled panel.

The canceled Comic-Con panel has led fans online to speculate on the reason. Per ComicBookMovie.com, it was recently rumored that Daredevil: Born Again star Charlie Cox was heading to London to shoot scenes for Brand New Day. It would make sense that Cox’s Daredevil would join the cast since Jon Bernthal’s Punisher is already confirmed to be featured in the film. Additionally, Cox made a memorable cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and the two characters also had an encounter in Marvel Animation’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.

Rumors swirled when Cox, who plays Matt Murdock, AKA Daredevil in the Disney+ series, canceled his October Spacecon San Antonio appearance with the convention offering this explanation: “Charlie Cox (has) signed on to (a) new (movie) and due to (his) filming (schedule), (he has) to cancel (his) Spacecon appearance.” The timeline adds up for Cox to be going to the UK to shoot scenes for Brand New Day, as the movie is currently in production. Bernthal has also canceled his New York Comic-Con appearance, likely due to something Spidey-related.

The Canceled Panel Sparked Confusion Among Fans

Peter Parker/Spider-Man fights Green Goblin and his other villains in New York in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

One Reddit user seemed confused by the possibility of having Daredevil join the fray alongside Spider-Man in the newest movie. “So we’ve got the Punisher, the Hulk, Black Widow, and now Daredevil, all maybe appearing in a Spider-Man movie. These are confusing times,” posted Reddit user Pomojema_The_Dreamer. It should be noted that Black Widow has not been confirmed for the movie.

Another Reddit user, blackbutterfree, speculated that Brand New Day may turn into a Marvel Knights movie. “Sounds like it’s going to be a Marvel Knights movie, honestly. Which is an era where all of the street level heroes, including Punisher, Black Widow, Daredevil and Spider-Man were all in each other’s orbit. Which is weird considering the title is taken from a comic era like five years after the Marvel Knights era, where Spider-Man was heavily associated with the New Avengers (AKA the MCU Defenders).

Brand New Day may mark the start of a grittier Spider-Man story, as was teased in No Way Home. Fans should recall that Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) was killed in the last Spider-Man movie, and due to the chaos in the Multiverse, the memory of Peter Parker’s existence was completely erased from the timeline.

So far, the cast of Brand New Day includes Tom Holland as the titular web-slinger, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk, John Bernthal as Frank Castle/Punisher, Jacob Batalon as Ned, Marvin Jones III as Tombstone, and Zendaya as M.J. Also starring in the film are Sadie Sink, Liza Colón-Zayas, Tramell Tillman, Michael Mando, and Sadie Sink.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day will swing into theaters on July 31, 2026.