The last time Sony planned to build a shared mythology out from Spider-Man the entire thing imploded in the aftermath ofThe Amazing Spider-Man 2. However, tentative plans have been in place for a while to tie all of Sony’s comic book properties together, and in May of last year it was announced that the franchise would be known as the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters,or SPUMC to save time. In a move that signals what the studio’s endgame is, the SPUMC has now been officially rebranded as Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, so we can all expectTom Holland’s Peter Parkerto cross pathswithTom Hardy’s Venom eventually.
Venom: Let There Be Carnagewas recently hit by another delay and won’t arrive until October 15, whileSpider-Man: No Way Homeis penciled in for a December 17 bow, although the latter is a co-production with Kevin Feige’s Marvel Studios.
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The series is still only one movie old, withRuben Fleischer’sVenomthe sole effort that’s managed to hit cinemas so far, butLet There Be Carnagewill mark the long-awaited second installment.Jared Leto’sMorbiuspremieres on January 28 next year, withJ.C. ChandorandAaron Taylor-Johnson’sKraven the Huntercoming on June 11, 2025.
Holland’s contract with Sony and Marvelexpires afterNo Way Home, so we can pretty much guarantee at this point that the next batch of negotiations will result in the actor jumping between the MCU and Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, given that his character’s name is right there in the branding.
As the only one of the ‘Big Five’ studios that don’t have an in-house streaming service, the pandemic has put Sony at a serious disadvantage compared to Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, and Paramount. The majority of the company’s 2021 movies have either been delayed significantly or sold off, with Netflix alone acquiring four of them, and it’s unsurprisingly a pair of Marvel blockbusters that Sony will be hedging their hopes on to save what’s been an otherwise unremarkable year.
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