In an unprecedented move, Marvel has published the first three pages of its Spider-Man: Brand New Day script, revealing exactly how the movie begins.
The film’s opening minutes incorporate much of the footage we’ve seen already, in Brand New Day’s record-breaking first trailer. But the script, and handwritten details added by director Destin Daniel Cretton, adds further detail — and already may hint at larger elements in the movie that remain under wraps.
Published by Entertainment Weekly, the script begins right at the Marvel Studios title card, which will show “the memories Peter no longer shares with Ned and MJ and Aunt May” following the end of 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, where Peter Parker’s memory was wiped from their existance.
In handwritten notes added by Cretton, the director points out that Peter Parker has “vanished from existence like Marty [McFly]” in Back to the Future, and “for the first time, Peter is entirely alone.”
Over the studio logos, we’ll hear Tom Holland’s Peter Parker read out the letter he wrote MJ at the end of No Way Home, and see him still in the dingy apartment where we left him last. But this is just nine months after the last film — whereas we know that the bulk of Brand New Day takes place four years later. (Could we be getting a montage? Well, yes, but not quite yet.)
