12 Major Implications Of Spider-Man Joining Marvel's Phase 3
3. No More Sinister Six Or Venom?
The new hint of a new creative direction for Spider-Man might well have looked like wiping the slate clean and starting again, but according to the Wall Street Journal, concerns that Spider-Man's MCU sojourn will spell the end of the Sinister Six project are unfounded:
"Sony will delay its planned release of The Sinister Six, about a group of Spider-Man villains, in wake of the new deal said a person involved in movie. It had been scheduled for release in November of 2016."
Sony apparently remain committed to their own expanded universe (they have to, or Marvel might be able to legitimately get the rights back, after all), and while Andrew Garfield is no more, Dane DeHaan might continue as Green Goblin, and the rest of the villain network might also endure. Whether that is the right decision remains to be seen: there were good and bad parts of the Amazing Spider-Man films (Paul Giamatti's Rhino being firmly in the second column), and while rebooting entirely would be tiresome, Sony might realise that they would be better served by simply replacing all pre-production Spider-Man films with whatever comes from their creative discussions with Kevin Feige. Even if they cast off the Sinister Six movie, they should keep Venom around, if only as a villain for one of their next stand-alones, because there's enough fan desire there to power him through the period of change.
