Tom Holland says he has "a really clear vision" for handing the Spider-Man suit to another actor — and the plan has been quietly taking shape for years.

Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast in a July 2026 interview, Holland revealed that "a whole plan" exists for transitioning the role he has played since 2016's Captain America: Civil War. "I have a really clear vision to the passing on of the baton, and I think it's really exciting," he said, according to quotes re-reported by Deadline.

The groundwork, Holland explained, started being laid after Spider-Man: No Way Home opened in 2021. That film grossed over $1.9 billion worldwide and became the highest-earning Spider-Man film of the Holland era. Rather than simply riding the momentum, the actor and the producers apparently began mapping an exit.

Holland's final Spider-Man film as the lead is titled Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The film held its world premiere red-carpet event on 28 July 2026, attended by Holland, Zendaya, and the wider cast, as covered by AP News. Back in April, Holland described the film in a video message to cinema exhibitors as "the most emotional" and "the most grown-up" Spider-Man entry yet, AP News reported.

The franchise's future extends well beyond Holland's departure. According to The Playlist, Holland indicated that the "whole plan" includes Miles Morales — the Afro-Latino teenager who takes up the Spider-Man mantle in Marvel's comic-book continuity. Holland also revealed that Sony had planned to merge his Spider-Man with Tom Hardy's Venom universe, a thread that suggests the studio once envisioned a shared on-screen world tying its Marvel properties together.

For Zendaya, who plays MJ across the Holland Spider-Man films, the exit is personal as well as professional. She told the Associated Press in an interview that she would not continue appearing in Spider-Man films without Holland, calling the two a "package deal" (AP News).

For fans, the prospect of Miles Morales stepping onto the live-action screen has been a long-held hope, fuelled by the runaway success of the Spider-Verse animated films. The detail about a Venom crossover, meanwhile, offers a window into the kind of behind-the-scenes franchise engineering that rarely surfaces publicly until an actor decides to talk.

What remains unconfirmed is the identity of the actor who would inherit the role, and the exact timeline for the transition. Holland did not name a successor, and no casting announcement has been made by Sony or Marvel Studios. The plan exists, but its details are still being kept behind closed doors.