After months of rumors and speculations, Sony and Marvel have reached some kind of a deal. Sony Pictures Entertainment brings Marvel Studios into the Spider-Man World.
Official news from Marvel.com states that,
“Under the deal, the new Spider-Man will first appear in a Marvel film from Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU). Sony Pictures will thereafter release the next installment of its $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, on July 28, 2017, in a film that will be co-produced by Kevin Feige and his expert team at Marvel and Amy Pascal, who oversaw the franchise launch for the studio 13 years ago. Together, they will collaborate on a new creative direction for the web slinger. Sony Pictures will continue to finance, distribute, own and have final creative control of the Spider-Man films.”
Now the deal includes that Spider-Man will appear in 1 Marvel movie, prior to the stand alone Spider-Man films. So with a July 2017 release date, the only logical Marvel movie that he can appear in is Captain America: Civil War. This would be awesome if they can make this happen, since the web crawler is an integral part of the overall plot in the comics.
Sorry Andrew Garfield fans. Garfield will not be returning, and a new actor will be casted as Spider-Man in an all-new film. This means that the continuity from the first 2 Amazing Spider-Man movies will be rebooted.
Now this sounds all good, but I don’t quite buy that Sony will really have final creative control. In reality, Sony has not been shelling-out storytelling acclaim with their past comic book movies, attributing to bad creative decisions (I still haven’t forgiven Sony for butchering Spider-Man 3). So I don’t see any logic that they won’t listen to Kevin Feige, who so far have been doing no wrong in their cinematic universe.
With all that being said, this is great news for us. So here’s to hoping that this partnership will do Spider-Man justice, since the last good Spider-Man movie that I have watched was from way back in 2002 with the first Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movie.
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