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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Casting Wishlist — Who Should Join Tom Holland in 2026?
via Screen Rant
According to Screen Rant, 2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for Spider-Man fans — with a significant shift arriving for the franchise even before Tom Holland swings back onto the big screen in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Why This Matters for Every Spider-Man Fan
With Brand New Day on the horizon and 2026 already promising major Marvel movement, the casting conversation around Holland's next solo outing is heating up fast. The title itself is loaded with comic book significance — "Brand New Day" refers to one of the most controversial and beloved Spider-Man storylines ever published, one that reset Peter Parker's life in dramatic fashion, introduced new love interests, new villains, and a whole new status quo. That means the supporting cast for this film could look very different from what we saw in the Homecoming trilogy.
Who plays MJ going forward? Does Ned Leeds survive the reset? Which villain gets to terrorize a freshly rebooted Peter Parker? These are the questions keeping Marvel fans up at night — and myCast users have already started building their dream casts.
What myCast Fans Are Already Saying
The community has wasted no time spinning up fan-cast stories for this one, and the results are genuinely fascinating. Three separate Spider-Man: Brand New Day stories have already taken shape on the platform, each with its own vision for what the film could be.
In the most detailed story so far — featuring 30 fully cast roles — fans are largely betting on continuity. Zendaya Coleman holds the MJ slot, Jacob Batalon is back as Ned, and Tom Holland naturally tops the Peter Parker pick. But the really interesting choices are elsewhere: Vincent D'Onofrio is the fan pick for Wilson Fisk, which makes a ton of sense given his acclaimed run in Daredevil: Born Again, and Jon Bernthal lands the Frank Castle role — another carry-over from the Netflix-to-MCU pipeline that fans clearly want to see continue. There's even a pick for as Rachel Summers, which tells you just how ambitious some fans' visions for this film are.
A second Spider-Man: Brand New Day story goes in a completely different direction, imagining a harder reset. Here, Gabriel LaBelle takes over as Peter Parker entirely — a genuinely intriguing choice given his breakout in The Fabelmans — while Nico Parker steps in as MJ and Taylor Kitsch gets cast as Frank Castle. Villain-wise, Diego Boneta shows up as Mac Gargan, a.k.a. the Scorpion, who was teased all the way back in Homecoming and has never gotten his due. A third story takes yet another angle, with fans pitching Jenna Ortega as Mary Jane Watson, Cillian Murphy as the Lizard, and Bob Odenkirk as J. Jonah Jameson — a wildly fun left-field choice that honestly deserves more votes.
Over on the broader Spider-Man fan-cast stories, the community has been dreaming even bigger, with picks like Elizabeth Gillies as Mary Jane and Jeremy Allen White as Eddie Brock in a separate Spider-Man story — White as Venom being the kind of casting idea that, once you hear it, is very hard to shake.
The Bigger Picture
What's striking about the myCast data here is how split the community is on one fundamental question: continuity or clean slate? Half the fan casts want to keep Zendaya, Batalon, and the emotional baggage of the Holland trilogy intact. The other half are ready to burn it all down and start fresh, bringing in new faces and a genuinely new chapter. That tension mirrors exactly what Marvel itself is probably wrestling with right now.
If the "Brand New Day" title is taken seriously as a thematic guide, a soft reset feels likely — new supporting players, possibly a new love interest, definitely new villains. The Scorpion tease from 2017 is long overdue to pay off. And whoever ends up playing MJ or a new romantic lead opposite Holland will face an almost impossible task following Zendaya's chemistry with him, on and off screen.
Cast Your Vote on myCast
The story is still being written — literally. Head over to the Spider-Man: Brand New Day fan-cast stories and add your picks before the real casting announcements start rolling in. Who do you want in Holland's corner for the next chapter?
