Brand New Day’ Taps ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ Tombstone Star to Leap Into Live-Action

While production is currently paused for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Sony Pictures is making sure to let us know that the show’s not stopping with even more casting announcements.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse villain Tombstone is making his way to Spider-Man: Brand New Day, as Deadline reports that Marvin Jones III (Black Lightning) will be reprising the animated role in live-action. Deadline further reports that Jones will purportedly return to voice Tombstone once more in the upcoming Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, having skipped the middle entry in the trilogy, 2023’s Across the Spider-Verse.

One of many crime bosses in Spider-Man’s rogues gallery, Tombstone is usually depicted as an imposing Black person with albinism; he has sharp chompers and granite-like skin that’s hard to cut. The creation, by writer Gerry Conway and artist Alex Saviuk, first made his Marvel Comics debut in Web of Spider-Man #36 in March 1988, and has been a staple of Spidey’s criminal underworld ever since.

Given Tombstone’s recent appearance in the Spider-Verse films, there’s no doubt going to be a lot of speculation that Brand New Day could potentially give us the MCU’s own take on Miles. The recent casting of Liza Colón-Zayas (The Bear) and Trammel Tillman (Severance) also has left fans wondering if the Morales family in some way will be a presence, and of course, Miles’ uncle Aaron already appeared in Spider-Man Homecoming, played by Donald Glover.

Whether or not we see Miles or any other Spidey-sona in Brand New Day, Jones is joining a stacked cast of familiar faces that includes Jon Bernthal as the Punisher, Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, and Michael Mando returning as Homecoming‘s version of Scorpion.

Despite its current production delay, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is still currently set to release July 31, 2026.

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