Spider-Man 2: Far From Home (July 5, 2019)

[Tyrath]

Someone please buy Sony.

[Tokitoki]

We can start a gofundme?

[Anakron]

This post suggests that the rights would not revert - https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudi...s_an_analysis/

[Kirin]

This post suggests that the rights would not revert - https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudi...s_an_analysis/

But the entity that purchase Sony (or the rights Sony owns) would have the ability to designate someone to handle the franchise. So if Apple purchases Spiderman, they could designate Disney/Marvel as the people in charge of negotiating with Disney/Marvel for the rights of Spiderman and related characters to appear in Disney/Marvel films.

I think the bigger fun read is that Spiderman can only be a cisnormative heterosexual white male named Peter Benjamin Parker that cannot consume alcohol, smoke, do drugs, or kill people unless wearing the symbiote suit (unless the "alternate" Spiderman is clearly defined as not Peter Parker).

[Serra]

Why would Apple/Amazon/Netflix do that though? They're still a competing business and Spider-Man is a highly profitable property.

[Tyrath]

Mostly because it's free money while Disney does most of the work. And I'm sorry any Spider-Man movie will make more money if done properly with the MCU.

[Salodin]

Yeahhh the ceiling on profits is way higher when you can combine spidey with all the other heroes under the MCU banner. Less risk to yourself too.

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[Serra]

It is less risk, but it is also less opportunity. If you're a competing studio, would you want the time constraints of the MCU on (arguably -- although I can't think of another..) your biggest franchise? If Spider-Man is part of the MCU, they can only use the character (and all the extra characters related to Spider-Man) when Marvel wants to use him. We've already seen the schedule for Phase 4 and there's no Spider-Man film scheduled. Yes, this can change and they can add another film, but that's only so far. Across all three phases of the MCU, the only hero who had a repeat solo movie was Iron Man during Phase 1. Especially with these being streaming platforms that are looking to purchase Sony, why restrict yourself when you can take the Spider-Man franchise and create a ton more content. While they could do things like the stand-alone Venom film, at the end of the day, Spider-Man is the character that ties them all together.

[Krandor]

Apple/Amazon/Netflix aren't making most of their shows themselves. They're still being done by a lot of your standard production companies, just being distributed thru those platforms.

The bottom line for any of those companies likely wouldn't be any different if they just let Disney run the show, except it wouldn't require any additional effort on their end and they could just wait for the profits. Let Disney put in all the effort making and advertising the movies, and just slap their logo somewhere and get it on their streaming platform for free.

And it's worth remembering Sony only owns movie rights for Spider-Man, nothing else. TV and all that is still squarely in Disney's corner.

[Kaslo]

https://twitter.com/KateAurthur/stat...001025536?s=20

[Eurell]

Thank god.

Also, that release date seems so soon considering how much else they have going on.

[Krandor]

That last sentence definitely implies other Spider-Man characters are coming to the MCU

[Kirin]

Exhale, but this agreement only being for one movie isn't surprising. Sony probably wants to apply the screws every time this comes up in the future.

[chazzyphizzle]

shocked pikachu face

[Eurell]

That last sentence definitely implies other Spider-Man characters are coming to the MCU

I read that as the exact opposite. Holland gonna be in non MCU movies as well s MCU movies.

[Anoat]

Holland is like the kid from a divorced couple now getting to celebrate two Christmases.

[Zealot]

Deal is for one more Spider-Man movie and one MCU appearance, wonder if they'll stick him in the FF movie.

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[Zealot]

Or oh shit, Deadpool 3.

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[NynJa]

Or oh shit, Deadpool 3.

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https://youtu.be/pusZXECS0mM

Cant bother to find gif on mobile

[Melena]

Or oh shit, Deadpool 3.

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Now I want to see a movie between the two where Spiderman refuses to swear, constantly pissing off deadpool, and then suddenly drop a F bomb out of nowhere while deadpool claps with glee about how his boy grew up.