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'Sinister Six' Delayed in Wake of Marvel & Sony's Spider-Man Deal
by Ethan Anderton
February 10, 2015
Source: WSJ
Unless you've been under a rock, or you just don't care, you've probably heard about the new deal struck between Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures that will see Spider-Man enter the Marvel cinematic universe while Sony maintains distribution, ownership rights and creative control. Word from Wall Street Journal is that the new Spider-Man (who won't be played by Andrew Garfield) will show up for the first time in Captain America: Civil War (which we all assumed). But the paper also has word on the plans for the previously announced continuance of The Amazing Spider-Man franchise, or at least Sinister Six.
Wall Street Journal reports that Sinister Six will remain in development, but it has been pushed back from the previously set November 11th, 2016 release date to an unknown release. As of now, Cabin in the Woods director Drew Goddard is still attached to write and direct the film. However, this seems strange considering the fact that we'll be getting a new Spider-Man, and the previous plans for a Sinister Six movie were meant to tie in to The Amazing Spider-Man franchise starring Andrew Garfield. Perhaps they'll just retool the Sinister Six material to come after Sony & Marvel's first new Spider-Man debuts on July 28th, 2017. Or maybe they'll just have Goddard direct the new Spider-Man movie.
Either way, it sounds like The Amazing Spider-Man franchise is dead, and we wouldn't count on ever seeing The Amazing Spider-Man 3 hit the big screen. But now that Marvel and Sony Pictures are playing nice with Spider-Man, don't forget that there are talks to have some Marvel cinematic universe characters pop up in Sony's forthcoming Spider-Man movies that Marvel Studios is now producing. And we will likely see more Spider-Man characters elsewhere in the Marvel cinematic universe as well. This is clearly the new focus for Sony Pictures right now, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens with Sinister Six.
9 Comments
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What are the chances of Garfield coming back? Do you think they will have to re-tell the origins of Spidey in an effort to make up for his lack of a role during the New York incident in Avengers? Perhaps they will make it a different Spider-man ala no Peter Parker to avoid the confusion of explaining how TAS 1&2 sucked and for Marvel to create their own spin on the webslinger?
WritinginDaWind on Feb 10, 2015
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But TAS 1&2 didn't suck... 🙁
Tuomas Lassila on Feb 10, 2015
3
he did good, should keep Andrew
311 on Feb 10, 2015
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There's been a bit of an outcry on twitter about him not being invited - maybe they'll keep listening to the fans.
OfficialJab on Feb 10, 2015
5
Has there been any word about Avengers 3 with Spidey?
TheOct8pus on Feb 10, 2015
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The idea of Sinister Six film alone was already awesome, but the idea of Sinister Six film in Marvel Cinematic Universe sounds even more awesome! 😀
Tuomas Lassila on Feb 10, 2015
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Don't care. Spidey will be an Avenger... all else is wholly unimportant.
ColtNoir on Feb 10, 2015
8
Always wondered: in the initial Sinister Six movie, Spider-man was gonna show up right?
Kasual7 on Feb 10, 2015
9
Oh Sony. What are you thinking?
DAVIDPD on Feb 12, 2015
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