Good Lord I’m really bad at names in this story.
I should probably give up on trying to talk about it, huh?
If all this (Sony taking the character back) has to happen, the smartest thing that Sony could do is give Lord and Miller the reins of Spider-Man property, in full.
I think it has more to do with sony investors, regardless of sale or deal they want full value. Sony is just one bad movie year away from selling spidey at firesale rates. Even if spidey is a cash cow for sony, by itself it cannot carry the full studio.
Of course it can’t carry the full studio, but that’s no reason to sell it. They need to exploit it as best they can, while at the same time trying to develop other franchises. (Since the current model seems to be based on having franchises. I’m not sure if that’s a new thing.)
Sony’s problem is that even a great Sony Spider Man movie won’t be as good as an MCU Spider Man movie. The MCU has spend years building up a background to set Spider Man movies in. Sony is going to have to make their movies without all of this background.
Disney, meanwhile, now has the Fantastic Four and the X-Men warming up in the bullpen. If they lose Spider Man, they have plenty of other characters they can bring into the MCU movies to replace Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor.
I don’t think having that background matters; Spiderverse was built on notion everyone already knows the broad strokes. It just let the audience hit the ground running. The texture was seeing the contrasts between the variants.
That’s a shame, because the best of the lot is The Amazing Spider-Man. It ends with a CGI slugfest as all of these movies do, but other than that it shines. I really buy into the joy Peter Parker feels at being able to do all the cool things he can do.
For that matter, Warner Bros and Disney have also done at least one crossover. But it involved an incredible amount of negotiation and wrangling (both rodents had to have exactly the same amount of screen time, lines, and words of dialog, and the same for both ducks), and I don’t think either party is eager to repeat the process.
This one YouTube video says that Sony and Marvel have reached a new deal with regards to Spider-Man. There is no other confirmation that I can find but the terms seem pretty reasonable to me.
Also…Venom in the MCU hot damn!
Word on reddit is that site is terribly unreliable to the point of straight up inventing stories.
Taxonomy Pendantry incoming!
Rabbits are not rodents, they are lagomorphs. The two families are the only members of the next highest clade though, albeit one that has a name that no one knows (Glires).
Yeah, I actually knew that lagomorphs and rodents are different, but I didn’t know the name of the parent clade, and figured that “rodents” was close enough.
Since they were supposed to announce this today, and I haven’t seen or heard anything about this, I’m assuming the report was, indeed, false.
A shame
Kevin Feige and Tom Holland - two people who I assume have direct insider knowledge - have made public statements that do not sound encouraging. They didn’t say the final decision has been made but they both used the past tense when speaking of Spider Man’s association with the MCU.
Feige: “I’m feeling about Spider-Man gratitude and joy. We got to make five films within the MCU with Spider-Man: two standalone films and three with the Avengers. It was a dream that I never thought would happen. It was never meant to last forever. We knew there was a finite amount of time that we’d be able to do this, and we told the story we wanted to tell, and I’ll always be thankful for that.”
Holland: “Basically, we’ve made five great movies. It’s been five amazing years. I’ve had the time of my life. Who knows what the future holds? But all I know is that I’m going to continue playing Spider-Man and having the time of my life. It’s going to be so fun, however we choose to do it. The future for Spider-Man will be different, but it will be equally as awesome and amazing, and we’ll find new ways to make it even cooler.”
So, slight hijack, who owns Miles Morales, SpiderGwen Peni Parker, Spider-Noir and Peter Porker? I was never quite clear on that, but Spiderverse has been, far and away imho, the best of all the spiderman movies to date. Let Sony have their Live Action Spiderman, kill off the old and tired MCU/Ironverse, and run with Miles and Gwen and Peni
That is 100% Sony.
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Which is why a lot of people are encouraging Sony to stand to their guns and ditch Disney. Spider-Verse was created by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and the pair have an extended deal with Sony. Fans of Spidey are saying “Just give the guy to Lord and Miller and let them run with it”.