Sony Pictures Entertainment Brings Marvel Studios Into The Amazing World Of Spider-Ma
 

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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ABOUT MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT

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I'm about to squee with joy!! About darn time!!!

So, is this a reboot of a reboot?

Or is Garfield coming back?

This is great news, I just wonder, Are they gonna redo Spider-Man's origin?

Considering Garfield was essentially fired, it's a reboot. Unless they decide to rehire Garfield for the 2017 spidey film.

Damn it. I liked the Amazing movies a lot. And Andrew Garfield.

I loved one and I enjoy two as a "so bad it's good" thing. Garfield was a great spiderman too.

No more origin stories, please and thanks!

I wouldn't mind seeing them keep Garfield and scrap everything else. But, he had to go and publicly call ASM 2 a piece of crap, so I can see why they'd get rid of him. "How DARE you agree with literally everyone! We'll show you, buddy!" :roll:

Sick of seeing the origin at this point, so I really hope from now on the movies just have the stories "Joined In Progress."

This deal sounds slanted in favor of Sony, though. Seems like Marvel just gets to "borrow" him once in a while for their movies. If Sony really does still have "final say" over scripts and such, there's really nothing to celebrate, since Sony being run by morons is what killed the Spidey films in the first place. So, I'm curious, and optimistic, but I'll wait before I get too excited. Just sounds like Marvel really, really wanted Spidey to be in "Civil War", and that's all this is, is a way to make that happen. If everything else stays more or less the same, then that's still not really a big deal.

I'unno, we'll see.

Well, I'm cautiously optimistic, myself. (Then again, I said that before TMNT14 came out, too....) I didn't care for Garfield. (Sorry, I just DON'T like him.) If they can find someone who actually has more to offer than a "pretty-boy Peter" and some snark, I'm all for it.

Literally anyone not named "Toby McGuire" would be just fine with me.

agreed id like a peter parker not crying in almost every scene.

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At least he knew HOW. Don't think Garfiled has that much emotion in his whole body. I just didn't FEEL anything from him. But OH once the costume was on, the snark was off the charts! :trolleye::tconfuse::tgrumble:

YESSSSS! Celebrate good times come on! It's a celebration!

Finally. Avengers Assemble!

They need to have a Peter Parker whose already a few years into his Spiderman career. God forbid we have to sit through the same boring Green Goblin story for the millionth time.

Well, to be fair, his first encounter with Gobby wasn't even until after issue #12(I don't remember the exact #, but I know it was past that)! By that reckoning, Ock and Electro should have BOTH come before Gobby! Who wants to see Chameleon in the next movie??!! Heck, he should've already met the FF before meeting GG. Which- kind of makes sense, alphabetically..... We can start at the top- Arcade, Black Cat, Chameleon, Cloak & Dagger, Doc Ock, Electro, Green Goblin, Hammerhead or Hobgoblin, (lost on I), Jackal, Kaine or Kraven, Lizard, Madame Web, Man-Wolf or Molten Man, (dunno on N or O), Prowler or Punisher,.....


Edit: Gobby's first appearance was ASM #14.

Oh my God. Thank you! I try t o tell Tobey fans this and they are all like "He didn't cry in every movie". I don't think these people saw the movies we did. Plus all three were the same damn movie with different bad guys. Honest movie trailers hit it on the head.

Yet nearly everything in the first two Spider-Man movies was FAR better than the first two Amazing Spider-Man movies- the fights, the acting (say what you will about Toby, but everyone else was spot-on), the stories (Ock's plot was particularly good), and the effects. Most people seem to simply razz on them because #3 left a bad taste in everyone's mouth. And that's mostly because of disappointment over Venom and Harry-Goblin. Do I even need to bring up Lizard or Electro?! Poor choices made on both. And as much as I feel a bit face-palm-y at Toby in #3, Garfield is just too "pretty" (and was already a bit confrontational even BEFORE the spider, which is SOO OOC for that point in the movie) to be a convincing nerd. Sally Fields made a good aunt May though, surprisingly.

Also- Willem Dafoe really SOLD GG. Having read through most of Gobby's history (Which includes once having abducted Flash and gotten him totally sloshed on whiskey before putting him behind the wheel of a semi rig and watching him crash it into the school Peter was teaching at- as a poke at Peter, of course. Also, banging Gwen Stacy while his son was unconscious after a drug overdose- and swiping her twin children from the "affair" to raise in secret in France) he was so convincing as Psycho-borne, er, Osborne that anyone else would just seem dull in comparison.

Spidey's back! And he's going to appear in Civil War first, so he's going to be an already established hero in the MCU (like Black Panther), so no origin story. Can't wait for phase 3 now.

I disagree with pretty much everything you just said there except the bit about Willem Dafoe and Electro. The Lizard was spot on except for needing more of a snout and as for Garfield being "too pretty" well Peter Parker has mostly been a physical specimen in both physique and facial structure. I actually think a great actor to portray him in the next film would be Emile Hirsch. There are versions of Peter that revolve around the Civil War that look a lot like him. But all in all I liked the Amazing Spider-man movies much more. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ile_Hirsch.jpg
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Does that mean its another reboot or there will be a Amazing Spider-Man 3 produced by Marvel and sitributed by Sony?

Actually, it's going to be ANOTHER reboot.

According to the leaks, this is what Sony were thinking of doing, and possibly may still be willing to do. There are also rumors Marvel are also going to reboot Spidey to be an older character following the Secret Wars comics event by undoing OMD and giving him a family so there would be synergy with that approach

I'm over the moon about this. Spidey is my favourite Marvel character. :D

Hopefully they'll keep Andrew Garfield and not do another origin story. Plus seeing how he

They confirmed Garfield is out

You really need to spoiler that? That story is older than the internet (and probably all of us here) :tlol:

any chance for

Spiderman is my least favorite character, and seeing how he's currently been the star of some very bad movies, I'm probably the only geek in existence who is not thrilled with this news.

I really didn't want him in Civil War, and yes, I know he was in the comics. MCU isn't the comics. Well, we shall see...

I don't know why people are so high on him being in Civil War. Him publicly unmasking was the least in-character thing he's ever done, and it led to the worst story he's ever had. Some people simply have no real understanding or value for this character so long as they get a "nifty premise" at the expense of consistency, and that extends just as much to the fans at times as it does the writers

Bring back Toby as an older spidy. No need to reboot, no need for an origins. Then all we need is Hugh as Wolverine and cancel the Gambit movie or cast Josh Holloway from Lost as Gambit

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Best news ever!

Link?

Yes, yes I do. :P

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansit...news/?a=115025

Is it just me or does Garfield sound like he has a speaking condition or something? It really hurt his performance.

great news
 

but the wait suuuucks!

So no spinoff films? No Amazing Spider-Man 3? No Andrew Garfield? New continuity intertwined with the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Just looking for all clarifications here.

Maybe, probably not, he's been fired, and yes.

Great news.

Good riddance Avi Arad.

He's staying on.