Tom Holland Read ‘Excellent’ Spider-Man 4 Script With Zendaya

Tom Holland and girlfriend Zendaya have read the ‘Spider-Man 4’ script, and Holland’s early feedback should be enough to get all Marvel fans excited.

Holland, 28, appeared on the Thursday, October 17, episode of the “Rich Roll” podcast, where he shared how excited he was to read the script alongside his costar.

“We have a creative and we have a pitch and a draft, which is excellent,” said Holland, who has played Spider-Man in six Marvel films. “It needs work, but the writers are doing a great job. I read it three weeks ago and it really lit a fire in me. Zendaya and I sat down and read it together, and we at times were bouncing around the living room. Like, this is a real movie worthy of the fans’ respect.”

“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” director Destin Daniel Cretton will direct the fourth installment in the series, taking over for Jon Watts, who directed the first three. Cast info for the film has not been announced, but Holland and Zendaya, who plays MJ, are expected to reprise their roles.

Holland himself hasn’t confirmed his return, but has said in the past that he would be open to it if the script did his character justice.

“All I can say is that we have been actively engaging in conversations about what it could potentially look like for a fourth rendition of my character,” Holland said in November 2023. “Whether or not we can find a way to do justice to the character is another thing.”

“I feel very protective over Spider-Man,” he added. “I feel very, very lucky that we were able to work on a franchise that got better with each movie, that got more successful with each movie, which I think is really rare, and I want to protect his legacy. So, I won’t make another one for the sake of making another one. It will have to be worth the while of the character.”

In addition to teasing the script, Holland told the podcast that putting a Marvel movie together presents its own challenges around fitting the story into the universe as a whole.

“One of the things is that, with Marvel, your film is a small cog in a large machine,” he explained. “That machine has got to keep running. You have to make sure you can fit into that timeline at the right time to benefit the bigger picture. That’s one of the challenges we’re facing. The time in which we need to get that done is a tall order but definitely achievable with the people we have working on it now.”