Tom Holland’s Spider-Man 4 Casts A Stranger Issues Star
Jeff Sneider reported in December 2024 that Sink was the frontrunner to play Jean in Marvel Studios’ “X-Males” reboot. Deadline additionally notes in its casting announcement that “the prevailing idea is [Sadie Sink] will likely be launched as X-Males character Jean Gray.” On the identical time, the article admits Sink may, in reality, be enjoying Mary Jane as an alternative.
Holland’s earlier “Spider-Man” movies additionally prominently featured visitor stars: Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in “Far From Dwelling,” after which Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parkers, plus all of their main villains, in “No Method Dwelling.” (To not point out Benedict Cumberbatch as Physician Unusual.)
Maybe Marvel intends to make use of “Spider-Man 4,” a assured hit, to springboard its “X-Males” reboot for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Like Spider-Man, the X-Males are sometimes teenage outcast heroes, so there’s commonality to discover. Peter and Jean, nonetheless, do not have a lot of a comics historical past to construct off of. This alternate from Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley’s “Final Spider-Man” is essentially the most memorable dialog they’ve had:
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Then once more, in “Final Spider-Man,” Peter dated the X-Males’s Kitty Pryde for a bit — maybe the brand new “Spider-Man” film will do this storyline, however with Jean (the no. 1 X-Girl) moderately than Kitty? Jean would additionally positively be a brief love curiosity for Peter, which would depart the door open to convey again Zendaya’s MJ.
Admittedly, bringing again MJ and Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon) would undermine the ending of “No Method Dwelling” and its themes of duty; Batalon, specifically, has stated he would not thoughts sitting future “Spider-Man” motion pictures out. However since Holland and Zendaya are a real-life energy couple now, the temptation to convey MJ again have to be robust.
“Spider-Man 4,” directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, is tentatively scheduled to open in theaters on July 31, 2026.
