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Brand New Day’ Trailer Finally Fixes the Issue With Marvel TV Shows
At long last, Marvel fans everywhere have finally gotten their first glimpse at the highly anticipated summer blockbuster, Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The trailer for Marvel Studios and Tom Holland‘s fourth adventure with the iconic hero was released on Wednesday morning, kicking off the road to release at the end of July. While the footage was obviously centered around Holland’s Peter Parker and his journey as Spider-Man, the trailer also features quite a lot of connective tissue to one of Marvel’s most popular TV shows. The fingerprints of Daredevil: Born Again are seemingly all over Spider-Man: Brand New Day, crossing over in a much bigger way than we initially expected.
We’ve only seen one season of Daredevil: Born Again, but the second installment is coming to Disney+ later this month, and it will clearly have a big impact on the events of Brand New Day. In fact, it seems Spider-Man and Daredevil are going to be co-existing in New York in a much bigger way than they ever have on-screen. That, of course, is a far cry from the previous era of Marvel Cinematic Universe shows on Disney+, which never got the recognition from the movie side of things that many felt they deserved. This appears to be both sides of the Marvel coin actually working in harmony.
Jon Bernthal’s Punisher Is Just the Beginning
The news of Jon Bernthal‘s inclusion in Spider-Man: Brand New Day is far from breaking news at this point. Fans have known for quite a while that the popular Daredevil TV character is going to make the big screen jump this summer, so seeing him interact with Holland’s Spidey in the trailer should come as no surprise. However, Bernthal’s appearance was far from the only tie to the world of Daredevil.
There’s a scene in the trailer where a newscast shows Spider-Man being given a key to New York City, and it appears as though the person handing him that key is none other than Sheila Rivera. If you recall, Rivera is a key advisor to Mayor Wilson Fisk in Daredevil: Born Again Season 1. Why she’s giving Spider-Man a key to the city instead of Fisk — and why Fisk is celebrating a “masked vigilante” like Spider-Man at all — is a question we probably won’t be able to answer until after the release of Born Again Season 2.
Something similar can be said for Frank Castle, who is roaming the streets of New York in this trailer. He is taken by Fisk’s forces in the Born Again Season 1 finale, though the post-credits scene alludes to him escaping. How exactly that happens, and what he does next, will remain a mystery for a little while longer.
Return of the Hand
Now, this is less about Daredevil: Born Again and much more about the shared Netflix universe that the original Daredevil series launched more than a decade ago. There are a lot of mysteries surrounding the potential antagonists of Brand New Day, but the trailer does reveal that the organization known as The Hand will be incorporated.
Spider-Man is seen in the trailer fighting off members of the Hand, which marks the group’s foray into the MCU, after having been a driving force in Daredevil and The Defenders. Who knows what kind of role the organization will actually have in the film, given how there is absolutely no context to the scene from the trailer, but the fact that they are around at all shows that Marvel isn’t afraid to try again with characters or properties that were used in the Netflix universe.
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Two Defenders down, two more to go.
How Marvel Shows and Movies Should Exist
When Marvel Studios first started releasing TV shows, it felt as though the small-screen version of the ever-growing superhero franchise wasn’t really allowed to exist on the same level as the films. The events from the shows were noted by the stories of the movies, but they didn’t matter all that much in the grand scheme of things. For example, Wanda’s experience in WandaVision was talked about in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but the character growth she experienced on that show wasn’t at all reflected in the version of the Scarlet Witch that appeared in the film.
As the television side of Marvel Studios has evolved, and is focusing more on traditional TV formats with grounded characters, it appears the bridge over to the films is starting to work both ways. How things unfold in Daredevil: Born Again has a direct impact on Spider-Man’s New York City escapades in Brand New Day. How far that connection goes remains to be seen, but it’s awesome to see these two wings of Marvel seemingly working together in ways they haven’t been able to before.
- Release Date
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July 31, 2026
- Director
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Destin Daniel Cretton
- Writers
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Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Steve Ditko, Stan Lee
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