Tuesday, March 25, 2014
DOES WHATEVER A SPIDER CAN: Because of hopes for money and in order to prevent rights to reverting to Marvel/Disney, Sony has said we can expect a new Spider-Man universe film every year. Because of the post-production schedule and Andrew Garfield's desire to do something other than play Peter Parker in his life, the current plan is to fill it out with villain-centric films in the off-years. However, news that Marvel is planning a massive crossover in which all Spider-Men from all continuities will have to unite (apparently including Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham) gives me an alternate idea--why not do different "universes" in different years, with even numbered years giving us Peter Parker films, and odd numbered years giving us a different Spider-Man (the logical choice is current Ultimate Spider-Man Miles Morales)? Would audiences accept this sort of thing, or would it just be confusing?
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I'm more bewildered than confused, and find the whole different universe thing to be tedious. I have little interest in a basic Spiderman movie, much less ones filled with alternates Spidermen Ive never heard of. Perhaps someone who is a comic fan will be excited.
ReplyDeleteThat Spider-Men event is in the comics. And considering how Dan Slott has been pulling off the Superior Spider-Man series with Doc Oc inhabiting Peter's body, I'm going to say he might be able to pull this off.
ReplyDeleteI'll be talking out of my keester here, but I'm going to bet that Sony's license on Spider-Man is solely on the 616 version (that would be mainstream Peter Parker, folks). So no Miles Morales for them (and if Marvel wants to insert him in Avengers 3....I wouldn't complain).
ReplyDeleteA whole movie about Venom? That won't be tedious and off-putting at all.
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that Sony has all rights to Spider-Man of all varieties and "core" Spider-Man characters. (The big exception is Kingpin, who is part of Daredevil universe despite having been a recurring Spider-Man villain.) Similarly, Silver Surfer/Doctor Doom are part of the Fantastic Four IP despite having appeared in other titles from time to time.
ReplyDeleteWhere the licenses get weird is places where characters are in multiple universes--that's why we are getting Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch (played by different actors) in both X-Men: DOFP and Avengers 2. While Marvel can use the characters in Avengers 2, they can't refer to them as "mutants" or refer to the identity of their father (unless they change that to some new character).
Magnet Guy!
ReplyDeleteHuh?
ReplyDeleteI think that _might_ work for multiple TV series (see Batman and Batman Beyond) but no way for concurrent movies. I think you're much better off doing villain or ambiguously heroic characters - I assume they've got the rights to Black Cat. Maybe they could do Cloak and Dagger?
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping the Netflix Defenders series will begin to give us what's been missing from Agents of SHIELD, that sense of the Marvel Universe as a Universe, where the wondrous has become commonplace. If they can't do it, then hopefully someone will pick up the Astro City license.
You are a glorious geek, sir. Nobody ask him what 616 means, or one of us will tell you.
ReplyDeleteI would LOVE a Superior animated series at least.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the representation of Porker on the cover with all the discarded masks. Amazing.
ReplyDeleteAnd BTW, if you haven't, go back and read the trades of Dan Slott's She-Hulk run. It's great stuff, despite the awful Greg Land covers.
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