Sony and Amazon deal to bring Spider-Man spin-off show
Can Amazon and Sony use spiderman in their spider verse that’s coming to Amazon? The answer is going to be a little bit complex. It’s going to take a couple of minutes to explain, but the simple answer is yes, but it’s complex.
So obviously there’s a lot going on with Sony and Amazon and their partnership. We already know multiple shows are in development. It’s starting with Silk Spider Society, and it’s going to expand from there.
By the sounds of it, this thing is aiming to be pretty big. They want multiple projects coming at us rapidly, and it looks like they’re really trying to focus on telling us. This is spinning off from Spiderman. It’s a spiderverse, but again, without Spiderman, right?
Well, that’s where things get interesting, because people want to know, can Amazon and Sony use Spiderman? And the answer is yes, but it’s not a simple yes. And then they just do it. For example, if they want to use Spiderman, whether it’s Miles Morales or whatever, sure. Whether it’s Peter Parker? Yes.
Read Also-
- Why did Disney bring back Bob Iger
- Is T’Challa being recast
- Are Loki and Thor gonna meet again
- Chris Hemsworth quitting acting after medical diagnosis
But they cannot use Tom Holland’s MCU version. And that’s the distinction we have to make here. If they want Tom Holland to play Spider-Man, he will have to be a completely different version, 100% different, not Tom Holland’s
MCU version. His suit will be different. His mannerisms will be different. His history has to be different. They have to pretend and actively make you know that it’s a completely different character.
He cannot associate with any single character from the MCU because they’re a Disney property, and he cannot even mention them or so much as a wink and nudge in the direction of, hey, remember Iron Man, Captain America, and The Avengers. Literally, they would be sued into the ground.
So if they bring in Tom Holland, they have to play a very careful line of what they do and how he’s presented, which would mean that people could see through it. And then it backfires.
One for Marvel and Disney because then they’re associated with this thing that they’re not involved with, and people will ask them about it and they’ll want to clear the air.
On the other hand, what if the projects are bad? So again, they get stuck in a weird Venom-like scenario where Venom wanted to use Tom Owen spiderman, but
if they did, Marvel Studios was like, oh, hell no, you’re not putting them in there. Get out of that. We’re preventing that.
And it caused the fallout. So the likelihood of Tom Holland’s spiderman appearing swim to none, unless it’s a completely new character. Now, if they want a different Spiderman or a different Peter Parker free to go at it, they can do whatever they want
They want to cast a new actor, to be Peter Parker in a new set of movies that Sony is going to produce in a shared universe that might show up in Venom Three.
And he connects to all of this free game and they’re allowed to do all they want with it because it’s all under Sony and they’re making it and it’s just a distribution deal. So, again, they can use Spiderman.
But which version of Spiderman? The more you get closer to the MCU version, the harder it is to justify and explain why that version is in. And that’s going to be literally covered in so much legal paperwork that unless Disney agrees on it, they’re going
to avoid it at all cost because they need to play nice. Because they want that Disney box office share that they get from all Spiderman appearances, which we know, thanks to last time, that they even got a share of what happened with the Avengers films.
That works out in the favor. And they’re going to want that again, considering that there’s a chance secret wars is literally going to be a $3 billion film. So even if you’re getting 10% of that, you want that. So don’t bite the hand that’s feeding you.
