Looks Like Spider-Man: Brand New Day Just Added Another Avenger
Kevin Feige seems to have confirmed that a New Avenger will also be part of Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Kevin Feige seems to be staying one step ahead of notable spoiler generator Tom Holland this time around, as the Marvel boss rolled up at BiliBili World in Shanghai this past weekend to tease yet another recognizable addition to the cast of Spider-Man: Brand New Day ahead of the movie’s release later this month.
While standing next to a woman dressed as Florence Pugh’s MCU character Yelena Belova on stage, Feige told the audience at BiliBili World that “If you’re a fan of Yelena, wait until Avengers: Doomsday. Yelena plays a big part in that,” adding, “But if you don’t want to wait until then, you might see Yelena a little bit sooner in the movies.”
Since Brand New Day is the only remaining Marvel movie left on the calendar before Avengers: Doomsday is released, we can probably put the pieces together ourselves here and say that Pugh will indeed appear in the upcoming Spidey fourquel, though whether that’s in the main plot of the film or a post-credits scene remains to be seen.
Pugh has made quite an impact on the Marvel Cinematic Universe since her debut in 2021’s Black Widow, where she was introduced as Natasha Romanoff’s estranged sister. The two spent some time together in their childhood years before being separated and trained in General Dreykov’s Red Room, where they became elite assassins known as “Black Widows.” Yelena eventually broke away from the group’s conditioning and repaired her relationship with Natasha before she died during the events of Avengers: Endgame.
Yelena then disappeared during the Blip and resurfaced under the employ of Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), who tried to dispose of her but accidentally forced her to team up with powerful yet forgotten villains and antiheroes like John Walker and Ghost. Along with Red Guardian, Bucky Barnes, and Bob Reynolds a.k.a Sentry, they were encouraged to form the New Avengers under Fontaine’s guidance.
Doomsday will mark Pugh’s first appearance in a real Avengers movie, but it is not yet known whether her character will survive the events of the movie to reappear in Marvel’s follow-up blockbuster, Avengers: Secret Wars. The actress has been candid in the past about her popular role, telling Total Film that when she first signed up to play Yelena, “lots of people from the indie-film world were all telling me that I was never going to go back to small movies again, and it always kind of wound me up,” but added that she thinks “there’s beauty in all types of those films. There’s beauty in the massive, epic storylines like Dune, like Marvel, like even Oppenheimer that I did. They’re amazing, mega movies.”
It looks like we can now add Brand New Day to Pugh’s impressive list of amazing, mega movies.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is set for release on July 31.