SONY TO CLEAN UP SPIDER-MESS

With all the troubles Sony is having with hackers and leaked emails, it makes sense that now would be a good time to right the SS Spider-Man franchise and get it to calmer waters. Marvel has just put out a press release full of flowery cooperation with Sony and new plans for the web-slinger.

From the Marvel Press Release:

Marvel’s Kevin Feige to Produce Next Installment of the Spider-Man Franchise with Amy Pascal

(Culver City, California, and Burbank, California February 09, 2015) – Sony Pictures Entertainment and Marvel Studios announced today that Sony is bringing Marvel into the amazing world of Spider-Man.

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.

Marvel and Sony Pictures are also exploring opportunities to integrate characters from the MCU into future Spider-Man films.

The new relationship follows a decade of speculation among fans about whether Spider-Man – who has always been an integral and important part of the larger Marvel Universe in the comic books – could become part of the Marvel Universe on the big screen. Spider-Man has more than 50 years of history in Marvel’s world, and with this deal, fans will be able to experience Spider-Man taking his rightful place among other Super Heroes in the MCU.

Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company said: “Spider-Man is one of Marvel’s great characters, beloved around the world. We’re thrilled to work with Sony Pictures to bring the iconic web-slinger into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which opens up fantastic new opportunities for storytelling and franchise building.”

“We always want to collaborate with the best and most successful filmmakers to grow our franchises and develop our characters. Marvel, Kevin Feige and Amy, who helped orchestrate this deal, are the perfect team to help produce the next chapter of Spider-Man,” said Michael Lynton, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment. “This is the right decision for the franchise, for our business, for Marvel, and for the fans.”

“Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios share a love for the characters in the Spider-Man universe and have a long, successful history of working together. This new level of collaboration is the perfect way to take Peter Parker’s story into the future,” added Doug Belgrad, president, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group.

“I am thrilled to team with my friends at Sony Pictures along with Amy Pascal to produce the next Spider-Man movie,” said Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige. “Amy has been deeply involved in the realization on film of one of the world’s most beloved characters. Marvel’s involvement will hopefully deliver the creative continuity and authenticity that fans demand from the MCU. I am equally excited for the opportunity to have Spider-Man appear in the MCU, something which both we at Marvel, and fans alike, have been looking forward to for years.”

Spider-Man, embraced all over the world, is the most successful franchise in the history of Sony Pictures, with the five films having taken in more than $4 billion worldwide.

                                                    

 

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  1. I think this is the next best thing for Disney/Marvel. Since Sony is contractually obligated to make a film every few years to keep the franchise (hence Fox remaking FANTASTIC FOUR and the X-Men franchise continually being expanded), and seeing as how they botched the last two films, they need professional help. Help that Marvel is quite good at doing, especially since they took a no-name property and turned it into one of the biggest films of 2014, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, making it into a new franchise overnight.

    Some may gripe that it means no SINISTER SIX, no VENOM and no BLACK CAT. I say good. If you can’t make a good movie with one of the most recognizable characters in the world, what makes Sony think it can do a better job with these low tier characters? They obviously don’t know what to do which is why they’re going to Marvel.

    This means Spidey will be in CAP 3 while Kevin Feige will have a hand in making the next Spider-man a great film. I would love to see Spidey team up with Daredevil or fight Hulk. There’s a number of great things that can come out of this so long as they keep Avi Arad in a corner and let Kevin Feige & his team work their magic.

    One thing I do wonder about is when we’ll see Blade, Ghost Rider & Punisher again since they’re no longer with their previous film companies. I’d love to see Punisher in DAREDEVIL. I’d love to see a horror themed movie or TV Show that would teamup Blade & Ghost Rider to expand that portion of the Marvel Universe.

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