Spider-Man: Homecoming opens next week, July 7th and will see the return of Tom Holland as Peter Parker, a role we first saw him take on in last years Captain America: Civil War. We’ve known for some time now that we’d see Spider-Man in Avengers: Infinity War and we’ve all assumed that he’d play some part in Avengers 4, which is currently untitled. However, what we didn’t expect is that he’d play a much larger role in those films and that Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 (for lack of a better title) would kick off Marvel’s Phase Four, which is currently shrouded in mysteries upon mysteries.
Thanks to Kevin Feige in an interview with io9, we have a lot more information regarding the future of Spidey and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Let’s quickly parse that out —
Spider-Man: Homecoming, opening next week, July 7th, 2017.
After that, we get Thor: Ragnarok, November of this year, and then Black Panther in February of 2018.
The next film we see Spider-Man in is Avengers: Infinity War, which hits in May 4 of next year, 2018, less than a year after the release of Homecoming.
We then see the wall-crawler again in the currently Untitled Avengers film, out May 3, 2019.
And then, two months AFTER the untitled Avengers title in 2019, we see the very next Spider-Man film, which hits theatres July 5, 2019.
That is an awful lot to happen between a kid’s sophomore and Junior year, but that is apparently the timeline. And that’s exactly why Marvel Studios made the decision to have Spider-Man as the very next film. As io9 quotes Feige, “It was purposefully done like this.”
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Feige says of this decision, “So much happens in [the 3rd and 4th Avengers movies], as you can imagine, and so much is affected by it that we felt what better person to hold your hand and lead you into the next incarnation of the MCU, in a grounded, realistic manner, than Peter Parker? So, coming out two months after Untitled Avengers, [that’s what] much of what the next Spider-Man film will be about.”
In relation to starting MCU’s Phase Four with Peter Parker getting right back into school after, you know, saving all of reality from a cosmic threat like Thanos, Feige expounded, saying, “Like how the events of Captain America: Civil War impacted Peter as he was dropped off by Tony and expected to go back to continue his sophomore year, how the hell are the events of Infinity War and Untitled [Avengers] going to affect him as he, yes, goes back to his junior year?”
And just what are the Phase Four films to follow the second Spider-Man film? Feige is, of course, tight-lipped about that, saying, “I hope [the news comes] after that. I think there will be certain elements that start to come about, not the least of which is the already announced release date of the next Spider-Man film. But other than that we’re going to keep it very close to the vest because this is really about focusing on the unprecedented conclusion to a 22-movie overarching narrative.”
If you take nothing else away from this interview and what we are saying here, if you’re a Marvel fan — be excited. Be very excited.
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