While promoting Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Hollywood actor Tom Holland revealed that Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures have been structuring his ultimate exit over the past few years. The transition to the next Spider-Man has been planned ever since wrapping Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021.
Here is what the actor said recently: "There is a whole plan that we have been working on for, I would say, since we finished Spider-Man: No Way Home. It's laid out. It's gonna change for sure, but I have a really clear vision to the passing on of the baton, and I think it's really exciting."
Miles Morales is the most widely speculated candidate to succeed Peter Parker. Miles is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Holland has repeatedly mentioned wanting to bring Miles into the live-action MCU and help guide the young actor cast in the role. Industry rumors suggest Marvel and Sony may introduce Miles as a civilian secondary character first. "The teenage son of a Black American father and an Afro-Puerto Rican mother, Miles Morales is the second Spider-Man to appear in Ultimate Marvel," the character's Wikipedia page says.
Characters like Spider-Gwen or Spider-Woman are also possible candidates for taking over the franchise mantle.
