Sony Pictures Television Developing 'Silk' Series

[ZariusTwo]

Lauren Moon ("Good Trouble" and "Atypical") is currently attached to the project and it's believed Amazon is interested in picking the show up.

If made, the series will focus on Cindy Moon, a girl who was bitten by the same radioactive spider as Peter Parker and acquires a different set of powers.

It is not known if Tiffany Espensen, who played Cindy for a couple of scenes in Spider-Man: Homecoming, will reprise the role here

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/silk-marvel-tv-series-live-action-1234758434/

[ZariusTwo]

This’ll get your Spidey-sense a-tingling: A new, live-action series set in the Spider-Man universe is coming to MGM+.

The network formerly known as Epix has ordered to series Silk: Spider Society, TVLine has learned. The Sony Pictures Television show is the first of a “suite of live-action television series based on the Sony Pictures universe of Marvel characters, which includes over 900 characters,” per MGM+.

Silk: Spider Society is based on comic-book characters created by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos. The series will focus on Cindy Moon, a Korean-American woman bitten by the same spider that got Peter Parker. The action will follow Cindy as she “escapes imprisonment and searches for her missing family on her way to becoming the superhero known as Silk,” per the official description.


Silk will premiere on MGM+ (date to be determined) and later will be available globally on Prime Video.

“Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Sony’s recent live-action and animated reimagining of the Spider-Man franchise has represented some of the most dynamic superhero storytelling in film,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios, via statement. “Together with Angela Kang’s creative vision, we couldn’t be more pleased to bring Silk: Spider Society to our MGM+ and Prime Video customers.”

“Angela is a pro’s pro whose perspective and creativity we greatly respect and admire. She’s also a hell of a lot of fun. She loves these characters and we feel really lucky for the chance to work with her to bring Cindy Moon’s story to the world,” added Lord and Miller via statement.

“I’m beyond thrilled to be joining the Amazon Studios family for this next chapter of my career,” Kang said via statement. “I look forward to working with the executive team on diverse, character-forward, watercooler shows for a global audience and am so excited to dive in to my first challenge—bringing Korean-American superhero Silk to life on screen.”

https://tvline.com/2022/11/17/spider-man-silk-society-series-order-mgm-plus-marvel/

[AquaParade]

Sony getting in late on the “let’s do the woman versions of our characters - train.” Probably a bit too late as people are already tired of it in the MCU.

[Andrew NDB]

This kind of stuff is probably the other end of the Sony/Marvel renegotiations that just happened with Holland.

Marvel: "We want to use Tom Holland Spider-Man in a bunch of projects coming up."

Sony: "OK, well, we want to make a bunch of really weird loosely Spider-Man related sh** that feels like stuff from the 90s. Also, we'd like it if you'd let us pretend it's kind of sort of related to the MCU."

[ZariusTwo]

All writers bar the showrunner have been scrapped. Looks like the show is being retooled for the male gaze only.

https://theankler.com/p/silk-spider-society-writers-room?r=v4b0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

[IMJ]

One source close to the series claims that Silk was being refocused with a more male-skewing audience in mind.

By liberal logic as applied to every other kind of person, it is sexist to assume this means the "Male gaze" on it's own merits rather than any other show element. And so any implied negativity about the "male gaze" is also sexist because, like being gay for example, the male gaze is simply a state that many men are compelled to be in and we need to accept it.

And so, by those two points above, under rules outlined by liberal-logic, saying anything that implies the "male gaze" is wrong or that tooling a show for it is wrong is actually committing sexism twice.

Therefore things that attract the "male gaze" are not wrong and saying or implying anything about it is wrong by the liberal standard.

[Drose18]

Sony needs to learn to delegate. As in delegate their Spider-Man rights to studios and teams that can actually make something good.

[Andrew NDB]

Sony needs to learn to delegate. As in delegate their Spider-Man rights to studios and teams that can actually make something good.

I think a lot of lessons have been learned across the board. Nothing teaches like millions of dollars lost. Sony has to do something major with their "take" on a Spider-Man universe that doesn't include Spider-Man. I suspect it'll be the wrong knee-jerk of "Well, we need Spider-Man back under our control!" vs. giving more control to Marvel. Which, after the Marvels, leaves Marvel in an unfortunate negotiating position. But maybe both parties having mutual bloody lips having tried basically the same thing in different ways might lead to something positive.