So what if Spider-Man and Nick Fury are not actually alive when “Avengers: Endgame” arrives next week? Come July, they’re teaming up in the Marvel summer sequel “Spider-Man: Far From Home.”

Of course, director Jon Watts isn’t spilling any real details about exactly how “Endgame” (in theaters April 26) might affect “Far From Home” (out July 2) – but one way or another Peter Parker (Tom Holland) “will have been through a lot,” the filmmaker teases.

In 2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” Peter felt like he was ready to step up and be an Avenger, but quasi-mentor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) told him he wasn’t ready. Though Spidey did take down his homecoming date’s dad, the villainous Vulture (Michael Keaton).

“Far From Home,” which finds Peter and his pals on a class trip through Europe, has Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and others telling him to step up and Peter wondering if he’s ready or not.

“I have this memory of being a kid and wanting so desperately to be treated like an adult,” Watts says. “And then there's one day, suddenly, where everyone does treat you like an adult and you start to think, ‘Oh, I liked it better when I was being treated like a kid. Could I go back?’ But by the time that happened, you're never allowed to go back.”

Fury, with fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. mainstay Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders), acts as a very different sort of figure than Stark. “If Tony is like the supportive cool uncle, Fury's more like the mean new stepdad. Fury doesn't see himself in Peter Parker. Fury sees Peter Parker as an asset that he needs who is too preoccupied with a bunch of high school problems,” says Watts, who’s been wanting to use Jackson’s secret agent for a while. “Part of my pitch for the very first movie was bringing Nick Fury in and making him the mean substitute teacher.”

Peter leaves his Spider-duds at home, since his main mission is getting to know his crush MJ (Zendaya) better. But when a bunch of weird elemental bad guys and the mysterious Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) appear, Fury recruits Peter into the spy world of tranq guns and stealth suits.

Watts likens “Far From Home” to, of all things, 1991’s “If Looks Could Kill” with Richard Greco. “You get to have this teenage James Bond character. Total world-weary Nick Fury and enthusiastic New York teenager Peter Parker gallivanting across Europe – what's more fun than that? You put them together and you have some good stuff.”