Marvin Jones III, Who Voices Tombstone in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Will Play the Supervillain in Live-Action Form in Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Sony and Marvel person reportedly formed Marvin Jones III arsenic Tombstone for Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Deadline reported that the dependable histrion down Tombstone successful Sony’s much-loved 2018 animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse volition play a caller mentation of the quality successful live-action signifier successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Marvin Jones III is acceptable to play Tombstone successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images.

Tombstone is simply a giant, adjacent indestructible New York transgression brag who has go a fashionable Spider-Man supervillain since making his debut successful Marvel Comics' The Spectacular Spider-Man #139, released successful April 1988. Here’s the authoritative blurb from Marvel’s website:

Of each the formidable foes successful Spider-Man's rogues gallery, fewer are arsenic grim-faced arsenic Tombstone, the New York mobster different known arsenic Lonnie Lincoln. Whether moving solo, arsenic portion of an organized transgression outfit, oregon connected a ace villain team, Tombstone has consistently posed a sedate menace to Spider-Man.More than conscionable being an force of Spider-Man, however, Tombstone besides has ties to radical precise adjacent to Peter Parker, making him an adjacent much idiosyncratic adversary for the web-slinging hero.

Tombstone is acceptable to look successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Image credit: Marvel.com.

Marvin Jones III, who played supervillain Tobias Whale successful the live-action Arrowverse bid Black Lightning from 2018-2021, and, astir recently, Cysgod successful enactment thriller Shadow Force, joins Tom Holland arsenic Spider-Man, Zendaya arsenic MJ, Jacob Batalon arsenic Ned, Mark Ruffalo arsenic Bruce Banner / The Hulk, Jon Bernthal arsenic Frank Castle / Punisher, and Stranger Things prima Sadie Sink and Liza Colón-Zayas successful Brand New Day. The MCU movie is inactive connected way for a July 31, 2025 merchandise contempt a caller accumulation hold owed to Holland’s caller caput injury.

Holland has described Spider-Man: Brand New Day arsenic the "first movie successful the adjacent chapter" of his web-slinging movie series, though helium plans to instrumentality a interruption from acting successful 2027. Holland has yet to beryllium confirmed for adjacent year’s Avengers: Doomsday nor 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars, though it’s hard to ideate an Avengers movie without him.

Once he's done with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Marvin Jones III volition reprise his animated Tombstone relation for 2027’s hotly anticipated Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.

Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images.

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