Yesterday Drew McWeeny of HitFix reported that Sony is looking to freshen up its struggling Spider-Man franchise by reaching out to Marvel Studios with a view to having the wall-crawler pop up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Now BadAssDigest has added to the rumour, suggesting that there are several plans floating around at Sony, including a “soft reboot” of Spider-Man with 2016’s The Sinister Six, where a new actor would take over the role from Andrew Garfield and team-up with the villains to take down a larger threat.
The site also goes on to report that another option is to leave Spider-Man on the shelf for four or five years while they concentrate on spin-off movies, which seems to be what Sony is doing anyway, given that it has pushed back The Amazing Spider-Man 3 to 2018.
Seems like a lot of speculation about the future of the Spider-Man franchise at present, so I’d suggest taking this all with a pinch of salt. Personally, I can’t see why Marvel Studios would incorporate Spidey into the MCU without the rights to the character, and if there’s one part of The Amazing Spider-Man franchise that doesn’t need tweaking with a soft reboot in The Sinister Six, then surely it’s Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man..?
Originally published October 7, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
