The second trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day has arrived, and Peter’s Spider-DNA is going haywire. Savage Hulk is back, and someone is controlling people’s brains. I guess it’s just a normal Tuesday in the MCU. But hey, if you thought the first one gave you questions. This one shows up with a whole new list and absolutely zero answers. Which I have to admit is peak Marvel and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Five years after the gut-punch that was No Way Home, Peter Parker is still out here doing the superhero thing. Except this time he is doing it alone in a world where nobody knows who he is. Not MJ. Nor Ned. Not a single soul. And while that already sounds like an emotionally exhausting situation to be in, this trailer reveals that Peter’s problems have just gotten significantly more complicated. His spider-DNA is mutating. He’s “totally out of control” by his own admission, and whatever is happening to his powers is happening fast. So what do you do when your biology is going off the rails? Apparently you go find Bruce Banner. Obviously.
Mark Ruffalo is back, but not quite the Smart Hulk we’ve all gotten comfortable with since Endgame. No, no. The trailer confirms what all those merchandise leaks have been teasing for months. Savage Hulk is making his return to the MCU for the first time since Infinity War in 2018. The big green rage monster. The one that smashes first and absolutely does not ask questions later. Banner warns Peter about the dangers of suppressing nature. This could be very good scientific advice or a massive red flag. That depends on how well you know Bruce Banner’s track record with his own biology. And then the trailer ends with Spider-Man leaping off a building with an absolutely furious Hulk close behind, webbed to chunks of debris and clearly not in the mood for a friendly chat.
An incredible image but man, do I have questions, so many questions. The leading theory right now, which is a good one, is that Savage Hulk isn’t going rogue on his own. He is being controlled. The trailer shows a mysterious cloaked figure with serious telekinetic abilities causing all sorts of havoc, and the cutting between that figure and Hulk’s transformation is very deliberate. Which brings us to the elephant in the room. Sadie Sink.
She joined the cast a while back and Marvel has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep her character completely hidden. Her face hasn’t appeared in a single frame of footage released so far. Just a hooded figure with powers that look very much like telepathy and telekinesis. The internet has been collectively theorising since day one. And the loudest theory right now is that she’s playing Jean Grey. And if that is true guys, it would be an absolutely enormous move for the MCU. Sink herself has said she “didn’t realise there’d be so much speculation,” which is a wonderfully unhelpful non-answer that tells us exactly nothing. Good for her.
Meanwhile, the trailer also gives us more of Jon Bernthal’s Punisher, who is back following his Disney+ series. This sounds like Peter specifically goes to Frank Castle for help protecting MJ, because he has literally nobody else to turn to. Tom Holland described their dynamic as “bickering, big brother-little brother” energy, which sounds like it’s going to be one of the best things in the entire film.
Also back is Michael Mando’s Scorpion, who gets to lay an absolute smackdown on Spidey in what looks like a brutal sequence. The Hand are lurking around too. Tombstone is reportedly in the film but hasn’t shown up in either trailer yet, which is either a spoiler-protection move or a sign he shows up very late in the story. Oh, and Peter is switching from mechanical web-shooters to organic webs. That is super cool, right? I think this is a massive comic book nod.
Watch the trailer here:
The official synopsis describes it as “a brand new day for Peter Parker,” fighting crime in a world that doesn’t remember him, while the pressure of watching MJ and Ned move on with their lives sparks a change in him he may not be able to control. Dark stuff. Good dark stuff. This trailer reportedly pulled in over 700 million views in its first 24 hours, which tells you everything you need to know about how much people have been waiting for this. And it’s easy to see why. What started as a grounded street-level reboot is clearly building into something much bigger. It has the mutation storyline, the mystery villain, the Hulk situation, and whatever Sadie Sink is actually doing in this film all pointing to a story that has a lot more going on beneath the surface.
Director Destin Daniel Cretton is taking over from Jon Watts, and from the look of this trailer, he’s swinging for something grittier and more personal than we’ve seen from a Spider-Man film before.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits cinemas July 31, 2026. UK audiences get it two days early on July 29, because apparently that’s just how things are now.
Go watch the trailer. And then come back and tell me Sadie Sink isn’t Jean Grey. I dare you.
