Big news for the Sony Marvel/Spider-man universe as three (four, maybe) bits of news point to an exciting future for the corner of the Marvel universe that has been struggling aside from the incredible Spider-verse movies… which we’re going to get to.
So, the first great bit of news is that just as Marvel has Kevin Feige and DC now has James Gunn and Peter Safran, Sony’s Marvel movies now have Phil Lord, and Chris Miller.
The duo who brought us the first two (third on the way) Spider-verse movies have been confirmed as overseeing the other Marvel properties which include, primarily, Spider-man and all the heroes and villains directly tied to that character.
Nicholas Cage in talks for live-action Spider-man Noir series?
This is great news because, let’s be brutally honest, the Sony output hasn’t been awe-inspiring with Venom being passable but Morbius and Madame Web both being so bad they’ve almost become cult classics, and the upcoming Kraven The Hunter movie doing little to garner any excitement from the fans so far.
The news seems like it has to be related to the news that the long-gestating Spider-Man Noir live-action series has finally been given the go-ahead with Nicholas Cage, who voiced him wonderfully in Into the Spider-verse, putting on the coat, hat, and spidey-mask at Amazon Prime.
Vernon Sanders, head of television for Amazon MGM Studios, said of the series: “Expanding the Marvel universe with Noir is a uniquely special opportunity and we are honored to bring this series to our global Prime Video customers.
“The extremely talented Nicolas Cage, left, is an ideal choice for our new superhero and the accomplished producing team with Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Amy Pascal, and the incredible team at Sony is dedicated to expanding this franchise in the most authentic way.”
The series will focus on ‘an aging and down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.’
However, on the flip side, the also long-in-development Silk: Spider Society has been removed from the slate of Spider-projects being developed.
The Silk series too was being developed by Lord and Miller, but with and would have focused on ‘Cindy Moon, a Korean-American woman bitten by the same spider that bit Peter Parker, as she escapes imprisonment and searches for her missing family on her way to becoming the superhero known as Silk’. Interestingly, Cindy Moon was already featured in the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies – Tiffany Espensen played the character in 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming. but it’s unknown if the series would have picked up on that thread (web?).
Sony developing a Silk TV series set in their Spider-verse… and the MCU?
Finally, one other bit of Spider-Man-related news comes from Sony Motion Picture Group Chairman Tom Rothman who said Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse and the fourth Tom Holland Spider-Man movie will both be a “significant event” for the fans before confirming that the third Venom movie, Venom: The Last Dance, is “The third and last Venom” and it “is going to be huge.”
While the subtitle The Last Dance certainly implied a farewell to Tom Hardy’s Venom, It has me wondering if the cancelation of Silk, the ending of the Venom movies and the conformation that Lord and Miller are in charge, could mean the Sony movies are stepping out in a new direction, ditching the confusing are they part of the MCU or aren’t they of the previous movies and instead, using the Spider-verse, carving a very definite and exciting corner of the Marvel universe out just for them?
Thoughts? I want to hear them, guys…
Source: Variety, THR & Deadline
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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