Last night, we could have easily imagined someone at Sony suddenly stopping in their tracks, as though they sensed something terrible had happened.
The film is a crucial MCU Phase 4 installment that Marvel and Sony have desperately tried to keep under wraps, with Tom Holland reprising his role as Peter Parker alongside Zendaya, J. B. Smoove, Jacob Batalon, and Marisa Tomei. Benedict Cumberbatch also joins the Spider-Verse this time as Doctor Strange, replacing the late Tony Stark as Peter’s mentor.
Holland has been teased for a number of years over accidental MCU spoilers, but it looks like he’s definitely off the hook for this recent mishap. The Cherry actor simply posted three intriguing words to his Instagram Stories in the wake of the leak – “You Ain’t Ready!” – but no official comment from Sony or Marvel was available at the time of writing.
The way in which the trailer apparently leaked is obviously a concern. It surfaced via the video sharing app TikTok and immediately went viral, but it wasn’t long before Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube had nabbed it.
The trailer footage was clearly cut before most of the VFX were added, and was presented in the kind of disastrous way that would give Christopher Nolan nightmares – with a phone filming another phone screen filming another screen – but that didn’t stop fans getting the gist of the trailer.
