Sony PicturesWelcome back to Marvel, Spidey.
This is huge.
Late Monday night, Marvel and Sony announced a partnership that would allow Spider-Man into Marvel’s cinematic universe. In other words, expect to see Spidey in some future Marvel movies, possibly alongside the Avengers and more.
Marvel Studios, which was purchased by Disney in 2009 for $4 billion, has the rights to Marvel characters including Captain America, the Hulk, Iron Man, Black Widow, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Black Panther, Captain Marvel, and more.
While Spider-Man is a Marvel character, he is one of several Marvel characters that have had previous long-standing deals with other movie studios which prevented Marvel Studios from including the characters in its movies.
Fox has the rights to the X-Men, Deadpool, and Fantastic Four, while Sony Pictures had the rights to Spider-Man.
Under the partnership, a new Spider-Man movie will be released July 28, 2017.
It’s expected that current Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield will be replaced in the new films. A press release says the movie will take on a “new creative direction” for the character.
The entry of the new Spider-Man film has shifted the release of Marvel’s upcoming releases as well.
The movie will be co-produced by Marvel and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige along with Amy Pascal. According to the release, Sony Pictures will “continue to finance, distribute, own and have final creative control of the Spider-Man films.”
In addition, Marvel has a few other big plans for Spidey.
Before the release of the next Spider-Man movie, the character will appear in a yet unannounced Marvel movie.
That movie will most likely be the next “Captain America” sequel, “Captain America: Civil War.”
Disney previously tried to get Spider-Man back at Marvel, according to leaked emails during the Sony hack. Back then, Disney reportedly wanted Spider-Man for “Civil War,” a storyline which pits Captain America against Iron Man. Spider-Man is at the heart of that comic as his allegiance is torn between between the two.
According to the release, the studios are also “exploring opportunities to integrate characters from the MCU into future Spider-Man films.”
That means you could see Captain America or any of the Avengers or other Marvel characters in future Spidey flicks.
All together, the five previous Spider-Man movies have made over $4 billion worldwide.
SPIDERMAN, MARVEL, AND SONY
Dec 13
Posted by Jack
Marvel Wants A Fresh Start With ‘Spider-Man’ Without Andrew Garfield
We previously reported on the potential deal between Marvel and Sony to share the rights to Spider-Man at a 60/40 split, and that deal seems to be the one that will potentially be jump-started if Sony Pictures Entertainment continues to stumble in their handling of the Spider-Man franchise.
Sony is understandably preoccupied with the consequences of a massive hack that includes leaked films, downed intranet services and the leak of documents and e-mails, but should this deal move forward, we’ve learned some more details about what Spider-Man’s potential return to Marvel would entail.
The 60/40 split still looks to be the divide with Sony handling distribution. However, Marvel’s not inclined to give Sony creative control over the character, nor planning on honoring the contracts with Sony’s Spider-Stars. More poking into the origins of the Aunt May solo film and Female Spider movie rumors revealed that these were actual Sony Picture Entertainment plans that Marvel knew about and severely disliked. Now that Marvel can have the rights to the character back, they plan to wipe the slate with the Amazing Spider-Man universe.
IF the Marvel/Sony deal were to go forward, Andrew Garfield would no longer be Peter Parker and any baggage from existing films, Raimi or Webb, would be non-canonical, Marvel doesn’t want any part of those films. The idea is that the Spider-Man romance movie has been played out over five installments, so any new Spider-Man films would focus on the difficulties of being a teenager and a superhero with a romance side-story, not the film’s focus. Marvel also thinks that the origin story is well-trodden territory, so any Spider-Man movies under this deal would begin with Peter Parker already leading a dual life. Spider-Man making his debut in Captain America: Civil War is still a distinct possibility and would serve as the character’s introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But as of now Spider-Man will NOT be in Civil War. I was told that they have a script nailed down.
Marvel’s desire to remove Andrew Garfield from the role was a major point of contention with Sony’s Amy Pascal, traditionally a stalwart defender of the talent in her films. However, current events leave her positioned slightly weakened.
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