- Spider-Man: Model New Day‘s first official villain has been revealed
- The Sony-Marvel film will embrace a distinguished crime boss from the comics
- They’ve appeared in animated Spider-Man tasks over the previous few years
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is reportedly set to function a fan-favorite villain – and followers have already labeled it as “excellent casting”.
Per Deadline, Marvin Jones III (Black Lightning) has been forged as Alonzo Thompson ‘Lonnie’ Lincoln, aka the crime boss extra famously generally known as Tombstone.
Marvin Jones III To Play Crime Boss Tombstone In ‘Spider-Man: Model New Day’ https://t.co/3yOwJouTi5September 23, 2025
Sony Footage and Marvel, who collaborate on Spider-Man films that happen within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), have not confirmed Deadline’s report is correct. Nonetheless, given the commerce publication’s monitor file for breaking official information forward of time, it is secure to imagine that Jones III has formally boarded the undertaking.
Jones III’s obvious hiring has gone down extremely nicely with MCU followers, too. Within the hours because the information broke yesterday night (September 23), individuals have taken to social media, Reddit, and different boards to reward the film’s newest forged addition.
This is not the primary time Jones III has performed Tombstone in a Spider-Man undertaking. He additionally voiced the character in 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the primary entry in Sony’s animated movie trilogy that stars one other webslinger in Miles Morales. Based on Deadline, Jones III will reprise his function as Tombstone in 2027’s Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, i.e. the film collection’ third and remaining installment.
Curiously, Jones III was additionally reportedly resulting from play Lincoln in El Muerto. One among many villain- and anti-hero-led Spider-Man spin-off movies that had been canceled after the plug was pulled on the Sony Spider-Man Universe in late 2024, the off-shoot flick would’ve marked Tombstone’s live-action debut, albeit in a film that the enduring wallcrawler would not have been part of.
Tombstone, who additionally had a big supporting function in Disney+ animated present Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man in early 2025, is not the one member of Spidey’s stacked rogues gallery who’ll seem in Spider-Man 4.
In Might, a new Marvel leak indicated Brand New Day could feature three villains. Two months later, the id of two of those villains was seemingly confirmed in a behind-the-scenes look at Spider-Man 4.
It is potential that the Marvel Phase 6 movie will function greater than a trio of antagonists, thoughts you. Forward of principal images getting underway in late August, rumors emerged that one other villain – Mac Gargan/Scorpion, who was portrayed by Michael Mando in 2016’s Spider-Man: Homecoming – can be a part of proceedings.
Extra out of doors filming is anticipated to happen in Basingstoke, UK, in early October and can reportedly be centered round a jailbreak scene. It is potential, then, that we’ll get our first seems at Tombstone, Scorpion, and/or different villains shortly. Whether or not these motion scenes will function lead star Tom Holland following the head injury he recently suffered during filming on an indoor set, although, stays unclear.
Spider-Man: Model New Day will thwip its method into theaters on July 31, 2026. Earlier than it does, learn up on everything we know so far about Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
