The Spectacular Spider-Man: 10 Reasons It's Already Doomed

9. Once Again Setting Up The Sinister Six

The root of many of The Amazing Spider-Man 2's problems was how its entire purpose shifted throughout production. It started out as a straight up sequel to the first, intended to right its creative wrongs and address that much-hyped "Untold Story", then became a dramatisation of seminal story The Night Gwen Stacy Died, before settling on just being the set up to another movie, villain team-up The Sinister Six. Sony are obscenely keen to keep The Sinister Six going. When The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and Venom fell through it was still on their slate and even after the Marvel deal it was still getting mentioned. And now, with the latest announcement, it seems they're still on that track, with the team set to be the bad guys in The Spectacular Spider-Man before getting their own movie. So, essentially, Spectacular is going to repeat the exact same crime as Amazing 2, explicitly building to a vaguely planned movie. Have they not got the message that the best way to secure a sequel is to just make a good movie that works on its own, rather than forcing audiences into a drawn out, TV-style narrative? And that's say nothing of the viability of a film where every character is a psychopath. The allure of having a mega-movie the size of the Avengers that they don't have to share with Marvel (they own the rights to the sextet) is clearly overwhelming Sony's ability to assess what is a good idea.