Sadie Sink Will Star Opposite Tom Holland In MCU Sequel Spider-Man 4

With Stranger Things' fifth and final season set to land on Netflix later this year, it's looking like star Sadie Sink is getting ready to pack up her things and make a move from Hawkins, Indiana to Queens, New York City. According to THR's reporting, the actor — who's spent the best part of the last decade playing Max Mayfield in the Duffers' streaming smash — has signed on to star opposite Tom Holland in upcoming MCU Spidey sequel Spider-Man 4.

Rumours of Sadie Sink teaming up with Marvel Studios have been doing the rounds for some time now, with serial scoopers such as The InSneider having previously posited that the star could be Kevin Feige's pick to play X-Men lynchpin Jean Grey, but today's casting confirmation is the first official word on Sink's Marvel plans. (And no, there are no solid statements as of yet confirming or denying the Grey rumours as of yet — or some multiversally outré Mary Jane ones, either.) What we do know is that Shang Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton is set to helm the first outing for everybody's favourite friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man since 2021's No Way Home; that series regulars Erik Sommers and Chris McKenna are back on script duty; and that Holland's seventh screen outing as Spidey is set to hit cinemas just a few short months after Robert Downey Jr.'s MCU return in Avengers: Doomsday, which is currently slated for release on 1 May, 2026.

Where things will go in the fourth Spider-Man film is anybody's guess, especially given the virtual blank slate that was left behind by No Way Home's memory wiping denouement. And with star Tom Holland currently busy on a boat off the coast of Greece filming Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey with his Spidey co-star and fiancée Zendaya, we imagine we won't hear too much more about his big MCU comeback before shooting on Cretton's film gets underway this summer. Even so, news of Sadie Sink's casting and even just mere whispers of the X-Men (who most assuredly are on their way sooner or later) is enough to have our Petey tingle, er, tingling. Roll on 31 July, 2026.