Spider-Man: Homecoming is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Pascal Pictures, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the second Spider-Man film reboot and the 16th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by Jon Watts from a screenplay by the writing teams of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, Watts and Christopher Ford, and Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, the film stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man alongside Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tony Revolori, Bokeem Woodbine, Tyne Daly, Marisa Tomei, and Robert Downey Jr. In the film, Peter tries to balance high school life with being the hero Spider-Man while facing the Vulture (Keaton).

In February 2015, Marvel Studios and Sony reached a deal to share the film rights for Spider-Man, integrating the character into the established MCU. The following June, Holland was cast as Spider-Man, and Watts was hired to direct. Soon after, Daley and Goldstein joined the project. In April 2016, the film’s title was revealed, along with additional cast members, including Downey Jr. in his MCU role of Tony Stark / Iron Man. Principal photography began in June 2016 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, and also took place in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York City, and Berlin. The film’s additional screenwriters were revealed during filming, which wrapped in October 2016. The filmmakers made efforts to differentiate the film from previous Spider-Man films.

Spider-Man: Homecoming premiered in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on June 28, 2017, and was released in the United States on July 7, as part of Phase Three of the MCU. The film grossed $880.9 million worldwide, becoming the second-most-successful Spider-Man film and the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2017. It received praise for its light tone, its focus on Peter’s high school life, and its acting, particularly of Holland and Keaton. Two sequels have been released: Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). A new trilogy of live-action films from Sony and Marvel Studios is in development, beginning with Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026).

PLOT

Following the Battle of New York in 2012,^[a] Adrian Toomes and his salvage company are contracted to clean up the city, but their operation is taken over by the Department of Damage Control (DODC), a partnership between Tony Stark and the U.S. government. Enraged at being driven out of business, Toomes persuades his employees to keep the Chitauri technology they have already scavenged and use it to create and sell advanced weapons, including a flying Vulture suit Toomes uses to steal Chitauri power cells.

Eight years later,^[b] after being drafted into the Avengers by Stark to help with an internal dispute in Germany,^[c] teenager Peter Parker resumes his studies at the Midtown School of Science and Technology when Stark tells him he is not ready to become a full-time Avenger. Peter quits his school’s academic decathlon team to spend more time focusing on his crime-fighting activities as Spider-Man. His best friend, Ned, eventually discovers his secret identity.

Peter comes across Toomes’s associates Jackson Brice / Shocker and Herman Schultz selling weapons to local criminal Aaron Davis. Peter saves Davis before being caught by Toomes in the Vulture suit and dropped into a lake. He nearly drowns but is rescued by Stark, who warns him against further involvement with the criminals. Meanwhile, Toomes accidentally kills Brice with one of their weapons and Schultz becomes the new Shocker.

Peter and Ned study a weapon Brice left behind, and remove its power core. When a tracking device on Schultz indicates he is traveling to Maryland, Peter rejoins the decathlon team and accompanies them to Washington, D.C. for a national tournament. Ned and Peter disable a tracking device Stark implanted in the Spider-Man suit, and unlock its advanced features. Peter tries to stop Toomes from stealing weapons from a DODC truck but is trapped inside, causing him to miss the decathlon tournament. When he discovers that the power core is an unstable Chitauri grenade, he races to the Washington Monument, where the core is activated and explodes, trapping a group of Peter’s decathlon teammates in an elevator. Peter dons his Spider-Man suit and saves everyone, including his crush Liz. Days later, Peter captures Toomes’s new buyer Mac Gargan aboard the Staten Island Ferry, but Toomes escapes and a malfunctioning weapon tears the ferry in half. Stark arrives and helps Peter save the passengers, but confiscates Peter’s suit as punishment for his recklessness.

Peter returns to his high school life and asks Liz to the homecoming dance. On the night of the dance, Peter discovers that Toomes is Liz’s father, and Toomes deduces that Peter is Spider-Man. After Toomes threatens him, Peter realizes Toomes is planning to hijack a DODC plane transporting weapons from Avengers Tower to the team’s new headquarters in Upstate New York.

Peter leaves the dance and dons his old homemade Spider-Man suit. He is ambushed by Schultz, but defeats him with Ned’s help. Peter races to Toomes’s compound, where Toomes attacks him and leaves him to die under a pile of rubble. Peter finds the strength to escape and intercepts the plane, steering it to crash on the beach at Coney Island. He and Toomes fight, with Peter eventually saving Toomes’s life after the damaged Vulture suit explodes. Peter leaves Toomes for the police. Following Toomes’s arrest, Liz moves away and Peter declines an invitation from Stark to join the Avengers full time. Back in his bedroom, Peter puts on the Spider-Man suit that Stark returned to him, just before his aunt May walks in.

In a mid-credits scene, an incarcerated Gargan approaches Toomes in prison. He says he heard that Toomes knows Spider-Man’s real identity, but Toomes denies this.