Spider-Man: Homecoming - 26 New Things We Just Learned
1. Spidey Might Leave The MCU Fairly Soon
Amy Pascal spoke to CosmicBookNews at CinemaCon recently to cast some doubt on the longevity of Spider-Man's tenure in the MCU, and it doesn't at all sound entirely positive:
“One of the things that I think is so amazing about this experience is that you don’t have studios deciding to work together to make a film very often. In fact it may never happen again, after we do the sequel. Because Sony, and Disney, and Marvel all decided that the right thing to do was to allow Peter Parker and Spider-Man to be in the MCU and to work with the Marvel guys and have them produce this film. And I think that was a very rare thing for three companies to do, and a very brilliant thing for them to decide to do because there are only so many stories that you can tell again and again and again about Spidey, and this is something that we would have never been able to do in any other way. So it was a very selfless thing that very smart on the part of all the companies.”
Maybe it's just a matter of negotiation? Maybe Sony WOULD have their heads turned by the money they could make alone having learned from Marvel down the line?
Contrastingly, she also spoke to the journalists who visited the set to say an extension was eminently possible, as long as it worked for everyone...
“I think we found the right formula and I think everybody is going to want the right thing to continue. And I think that there’s a, as I said, there’s a surprisingly generous and cooperative thing, and if it works for everybody, then it’s going to work for everybody. The thing is, and I always felt this way, if you worry about the movie and you worry about the story, all the politics take care of themselves. They just do. Because when the movies work, there’s enough for more than everybody. It’s when you start making the other stuff first that you start to get in trouble. […] Nothing precludes anything. The sky is open right now. And I think that you know, if we can keep this goodwill going, I think it’s going to be good for the fans and good for the journalists and the nerds and good for the companies.”
Let's hope it's the latter situation.
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