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• Spider-Man 4 could feature Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield alongside Tom Holland in a Battleworld setting.
• Spider-Man: No Way Home's success sets up a return for all three Spider-Men leading to another potential billion-dollar film.
• A multiverse storyline for Spider-Man may answer lingering questions about Maguire and Garfield's characters.

Tom Holland's Spider-Man 4 has an easy way to include Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's versions of Peter Parker, with the three heroes teaming up again in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Spider-Man: No Way Home is one of the most special superhero movies ever made. It is a love letter to all the Spider-Man movies, seeing Maguire and Garfield return as their versions of the wall-crawler. On top of that, villains from the previous cinematic Spider-Man franchises also came back, with Willem Dafoe's new turn as Green Goblin making him one of the best MCU villains.
Your browser does not support the video tag. Marvel and Sony managed to achieve many exciting things with the film, which almost reached the $2 billion mark — it would have done so easily if released in China — and has become the best of Holland's Spider-Man movies. However, some fans were disappointed that Maguire and Garfield only came in late into the movie. That was done so the focus of the film remained on Holland's version of Peter Parker, but now that the relationship between the trio has been established, there is a perfect way to have all three actors co-lead Spider-Man 4 with a multiverse story.
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2 Spider-Man 4 Being Set In Battleworld Could Bring Back Maguire & Garfield Avengers: Doomsday Could Set It Up Close In July, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige shared an update on Spider-Man 4, saying, "We have writers who are going to be delivering us a draft relatively soon.” Based on that timeline, a late 2024 filming start for the movie is extremely unlikely. Holland's Spider-Man 4 should take the rest of the year to get its story, casting, and sets in place for a 2025 shooting start. With it being hard to see any possible way for Spider-Man 4 to premiere in 2025, the MCU movie is a good candidate for a 2026 release.
Spider-Man 4 releasing after Avengers: Doomsday but before Avengers: Secret Wars would make it perfect for the MCU movie to bring back Garfield and Maguire's versions of Spider-Man.
2026 is a major year for Marvel, with Avengers: Doomsday releasing in May. As the movie will set up 2027's Avengers: Secret Wars, it could end with Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom creating Battleworld. The planet is made up of several locations from across the Marvel multiverse, uniting multiversal versions of characters and those from Earth-616. Spider-Man 4 releasing after Avengers: Doomsday but before Avengers: Secret Wars would make it perfect for the MCU movie to bring back Garfield and Maguire's versions of Spider-Man. All three actors could co-lead the movie, appearing together in a Spider-Man-focused part of Battleworld.
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6 Spider-Man: No Way Home’s Success Makes The Multiverse Spider-Men’s Return Inevitable The Movie Is One Of The MCU's Biggest Close No other hero has managed to have such a box office hit with a solo movie like was the case for Holland's Peter Parker in Spider-Man: No Way Home. The movie made Avengers-level money worldwide, with $1.92 billion, according to the specialized box office tracking website Box Office Mojo. Spider-Man: No Way Home also became the second movie in Holland's MCU trilogy to pass $1 billion, following Spider-Man: Far From Home's footsteps. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, No Way Home's score sits at 93% with critics and 98% with fans.
Spider-Man: No Way Home's 98% Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score is the MCU's best, tied with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
All this is to say that Spider-Man: No Way Home was an all-around success, becoming one of the MCU's highest-grossing movies and being received positively by critics and the audience. Holland, Maguire, and Garfield coming together for the film led to that, and with the three actors game to appear in more projects as Spider-Man, another team-up is inevitable. Spider-Man 4 even has the chance to offer fans a longer role for Maguire and Garfield, with all three Spider-Men finding each other in Battleworld and working together for the entire movie, which has the potential to gross over $2 billion.
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Tobey Maguire And Andrew Garfield’s MCU Returns Could Answer A Lingering Question Spider-Man: No Way Home Close Spider-Man: No Way Home's ending puts Holland's Peter Parker in a dark place. In order to stop every multiverse character who knew Peter Parker was Spider-Man from flooding Earth-616, Holland's Spider-Man asked Doctor Strange for a spell that made everyone forget who Peter was. It worked, sending all the multiverse characters back home. However, the movie never showed what happened to Maguire and Garfield's Spider-Men after they were sent back to their universes. In theory, Doctor Strange's spell should also have made it so that Maguire and Garfield's Peter Parkers were erased from the minds of their loved ones.
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5 That would make for an emotional reunion whenever they encounter Holland's Spider-Man, with the MCU's Peter Parker realizing that what he did had even more consequences than he realized. Alternatively, the reunion could allow the MCU to clear up the confusion, coming up with an explanation for how the status quo is maintained in Garfield and Maguire's universes. If Spider-Man 4 ends up going the multiverse route, there is a good chance this question will get answered.
Spider-Man 4 Spider-Man 4 is the first sequel to the MCU"s Spider-Man trilogy starring Tom Holland as the titular wall-crawler. After wiping his identity from the public"s memory in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker continues his crime-fighting adventures without the aid of Iron Man technology or the support of his former allies.
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*Availability in US For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the trials and tribulations of being a superhero. In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) asks for help from Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) when his identity becomes a problem for the ones he loves. Unfortunately, when the spell goes wrong, Spider-Man will now have to face off with villains such as Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) and Electro (Jamie Foxx) as Peter finally comes to terms that he can't run from being Spider-Man. Supported by his close friends and help from an unexpected place (or multiverse), Spider-Man will go toe-to-toe with some of the most legendary foes in his storied history.
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