Andrew Garfield addresses rumors of his return in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

It doesn’t take the Spider-sense to understand that Andrew Garfield has no interest in being part of Avengers: Doomsday.

The actor addressed a question of whether the Spider-Man characters played by him and actor Tobey Maguire, would return in the highly anticipated sequel.

“No, unequivocally, f—ing no!” Garfield answered in a new video with GQ.

The After the Hunt actor first played Spider-Man/Peter Parker in 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2in 2014. He put the costume back on for 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Homewhich presented multiple versions of the superhero.

But he won’t be back in highly-anticipated Avenger film that stars almost everyone ever seen in the MCU.

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The cast announcement dropped in March included actors such as Robert Downey Jr., as Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom, and Chris Hemsworth, as Thor. Anthony Mackie will play Sam Wilson/the new Captain America, and Sebastian Stan portrays Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier. There’s Letitia Wright as Shuri/the new Black Panther, Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, and Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman.

Cast members announced since include Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova), Pedro Pascal (Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic), Simu Liu (Shang-Chi), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Winston Duke (M’Baku), and more. X-Men actors, such as Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier/Professor X), Ian McKellen (Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), James Marsden (Scott Summers/Cyclops), and Alan Cumming (Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler) will be part of the movie too.

Avengers: Doomsday had been scheduled to arrive in theaters in May 2026, but was pushed to a Dec. 18, 2026, release date, according to a schedule that Disney announced in May.

Garfield, who’s gone on to star in films such as The Eyes of Tammy Faye; Tick, Tick… Boom!; and We Live in Time said in April that he was open to reprising the role. But he had a couple of requirements.

“I loved playing Spider-Man,” he said at the Middle East Film & Comic Con in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. “I would love to play the character again in some capacity, but I think it would have to be very weird. I would want to do something very unique and offbeat and surprising.”