Model New Day’ Faucets ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ Tombstone Star to Leap Into Stay-Motion

Whereas production is currently paused for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Sony Photos is ensuring to tell us that the present’s not stopping with much more casting announcements.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse villain Tombstone is making his technique to Spider-Man: Model New Day, as Deadline studies that Marvin Jones III (Black Lightning) can be reprising the animated function in live-action. Deadline additional studies that Jones will purportedly return to voice Tombstone as soon as extra within the upcoming Spider-Man: Past the Spider-Verse, having skipped the center entry within the trilogy, 2023’s Throughout the Spider-Verse.

One among many crime bosses in Spider-Man’s rogues gallery, Tombstone is normally depicted as an imposing Black individual with albinism; he has sharp chompers and granite-like pores and skin that’s exhausting to chop. The creation, by author Gerry Conway and artist Alex Saviuk, first made his Marvel Comics debut in Net of Spider-Man #36 in March 1988, and has been a staple of Spidey’s felony underworld ever since.

Given Tombstone’s current look within the Spider-Verse movies, there’s little doubt going to be a whole lot of hypothesis that Model New Day may doubtlessly give us the MCU’s personal tackle Miles. The current casting of Liza Colón-Zayas (The Bear) and Trammel Tillman (Severance) additionally has left followers questioning if the Morales household in a roundabout way can be a presence, and naturally, Miles’ uncle Aaron already appeared in Spider-Man Homecoming, performed by Donald Glover.

Whether or not or not we see Miles or some other Spidey-sona in Model New Day, Jones is becoming a member of a stacked solid of acquainted faces that features Jon Bernthal because the Punisher, Mark Ruffalo because the Hulk, and Michael Mando returning as Homecoming‘s model of Scorpion.

Regardless of its present manufacturing delay, Spider-Man: Model New Day continues to be presently set to launch July 31, 2026.

Need extra io9 information? Try when to count on the most recent Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s subsequent for the DC Universe on film and TV, and the whole lot you want to find out about the way forward for Doctor Who.