Or so I am reading online. Supposed to speak to the theme of the movie and some events at high school, which I assume must mean a Homecoming Dance. So the awkward teen element is going to be pushed forward a lot I assume.
Man, are they going for a full John Hughes movie or what? I can totally see the new Peter Parker in thrift-shop clothes singing Try a Little Tenderness. Go Duckie!!
Seriously, they seem committed to the “graft a comic hero into a classic movie genre” approach. That approach has certainly worked in comic books themselves, and Marvel has mostly done a great job with the previous examples. Could be fun.
That sounds like a terrible title. I was hoping for Spectacular Spider-Man. Or any unused one of these. (Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man sounds good)
I’m a big confused. I thought I read Marvel was only doing the other Spider-Man–Miles Morales. You know, because Sony still technically has Spider-Man universe rights. (And are even planning some of their villain movies again.) But everyone is talking about Peter when discussing this now.
Marvel arguably (very arguably) held the rights to the character “Miles Morales,” but certainly would not have been able to call him “Spider-Man.” No way Sony leaves a loophole in the contract that allows Marvel to make competing Spider-Man movies just by changing the name of the guy under the mask.
When Amazing Spider-Man 2 failed at the box office, Sony licensed the rights back to Marvel. They didn’t relinquish them out right - Sony’s getting a piece of Civil War now, and the new Spider-Man movie coming out next year is going to be a joint effort between Sony and Marvel. There was some fan speculation that Marvel might go with Miles for their Spidey just to break their “every lead is a white guy, mostly named Chris,” streak, but they’re going with Peter instead.
Oh, I knew about the agreement after ASM2, but I thought they only agreed to allow Spider-Man and not Peter Parker. So it was just some rumors instead. Thanks.
I also didn’t realize this was a joint movie. That makes more sense with what I heard initially–that Marvel only got to use the character, not make a movie. So they have to do a joint movie.
As you can probably tell, I haven’t been following this too closely.
But it didn’t triple its budget; the Iron Man sequels all have, of course, as did the Avengers sequel and the Thor sequel and the Captain America sequel; heck, over at the Distinguished Competition, the critically savaged Batman vs. Superman is already well past that mark as the sequel to Man of Steel.
Tobey Maguire’s outings as Spider-Man – yes, even the regrettable one – all more than tripled their budgets, just like everything Marvel Studios has been putting out there lately, from Guardians of the Galaxy to Ant-Man; obviously ASM2 could’ve done worse, plenty of movies fail to even break even; but its gross needs a “huge budget” asterisk.
That’s the other thing - it’s not just a question of how well this film does, it’s how well it positions itself for a sequel. ASM2 made decent enough money, but the critical and popular response was still pretty “meh.” Sony probably looked at that and figured that the risk of a third Amazing film being an outright flop was too high.
