It seemed that Destin Daniel Cretton may have lost the good graces of Marvel Studios when he was removed from the helm of the next Avengers movie, but it looks like he’s found himself spearheading another huge property for Sony/Marvel.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cretton has been hired as the director for the fourth Spider-Man movie starring Tom Holland. No details have been released about the story yet, but The Cosmic Circus says that the story will be more of a blend of a street-level and multiversal story.
It’s also worth noting that Cretton is also still attached to the sequel to Shang-Chi, but with Marvel still having no idea to release that, it does seem like Spider-Man is going to be the next thing on his plate.
By the end of No Way Home, Peter Parker has essentially lost everything and is starting at rock bottom. He’s lost his family with the death of May Parker, and since everyone’s forgotten who he is, he’s also lost his connection to Tony Stark and the rest of the Avengers.
A lot of fans saw this as a great opportunity to bring the character back to his comic roots i.e., Peter juggling his alter egos and struggling to make ends meet; but it has been rumoured that Sony really wants to keep tugging on the multiverse string—possibly bringing back either Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield.
As someone who was a real fan of the story treatment for Homecoming, I was really hoping for a few movies of Peter just tackling the day-to-day of being Spider-Man, but seeing that this is one of Sony’s biggest properties, they would definitely want each entry to be as bombastic as they could make it.
We don’t know when the film is going to give us our first details, but so far, fans have been positive about Cretton landing the role of director. Shang-Chi has proven he can pull off some great action, and maybe some choreographed practical fights are what would make Spider-Man 4 stand out from its predecessors.
No release date has been set for Spider-Man 4.
