Since the Sony Pictures hack, there has been quite a lot of speculation around the internet as to what exactly is happening with the Spider-Man franchise.
The hack happened a few days ago now (8th December, 2014) and since then, has been huge rumours about not only Spider-Man but many other things including the new Seth Rogan movie threats, and Angelina Jolie's new movie, Cleopatra.
Considering the Spider-Man franchise though, it has been under great speculation on what exactly will be happening with the future of the character that has been under Sony's contract for many years now. Although the Spider-Man franchise under Sony's control has never really left a huge mark on the cinema world, the most recent movie The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has been the worse grossing movie of the whole Spider-Man Cinematic Universe, as you can see from the table below courtesy of Boxofficemojo.com.
Although Sony has plans for not only another TWO Amazing Spider-Man movies, but they are also planning a Sinister Six movie which has already been dated for the 11th November 2016, which means that production will need to start sometime next year if they want to make their projected release date.
Due to the recent leak of the Sony Pictures hack, it has been picked up that Wall Street Journal has found a few emails that have been exchanged between Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios, and also some more emails between the Sony Pictures President Doug Belgrad and Amy Pascal, who is the co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
As recent as 31st October 2014, emails have been found to have been sent between Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios on a deal where they can successfully gain Spider-Man back for Captain America 3 and Avengers 3.
Among the emails there has been information saying that Marvel wanted to include Spider-Man for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, (which would have been even more amazing than it was).
Marvel clearly want to keep the Movie Universe as faithful and to the story line of the Comic books, where Peter Parker/ Spider-Man's role was pivotal in the events leading up to the Civil War. When Spider-Man unmasks in public for the first time in his history to support the Superhero Registration Act, it validates Iron Man's pro-registration side in the eyes of the public. Although Captain America is against the act and this leads to the Civil War between Captain America and Iron Man, with the other inhumans and superheroes choosing a side.
This would be amazing on screen, and a huge part to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I also think it would be the very first time a superhero has unmasked in front of the public.
All this could very well be turned around though as some emails have been found between the execs at Sony Pictures, mentioning that they want to do a comedy spin off that is created from the people who brought you 22 Jump Street, there is also mentions of the Sinister Six, and a female character to the Spider-Man universe (possibly Spider-Woman/Girl).
Although none of this has actually been validated and Marvel HAVE denied the rumours to be true, if either studio could validate the announcement that would be great for me and all Marvel fans, and Spidey fans that believe the franchise to be heading downhill even more than has been proven.
What do you guys think? Do you think Spider-Man will join the MCU or do you think they should do another 2 Spider-Man movies and the spin-off movies like Sinister Six?
Another question also might be that who else should play Spider-Man? I personally like Andrew Garfield but no one else seems to think the same lol.
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