Sony's Spider-Man Cinematic Universe

[The Shadow]

I'd really like to have been a fly on the wall when the Sony executives had their meeting and someone said "Do we really need to hold onto the Spider-Man movie merchandising rights? We should trade those away so we can keep all the movie money and not have to pay Marvel their share of the movie money."

Merchandising has always been a prime money flow; Disney had great success with Davy Crockett and Zorro merchandise sales and of course George Lucas's massive success years later with Star Wars merchandise sales.

EDIT: Also, we know the rumor suggest Michael Keaton as playing The Vulture in S:Homecoming; and that does strike me as the most likely scenario. But I'm still kind of wondering if the movie won't be the first Morlun story. I'm partly wondering this because I re-read the relevant TPB recently which is titles Spider-Man: Coming Home -- and if this is the case then perhaps Keaton is not playing the villain but rather the Ezekiel Sims the older spider-powered wealthy man who attempts to hid Peter from Morlun.

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We'll next hear his work in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but rumour has it that composer Michael Giacchino will return to Marvel Studios to work on Spider-Man: Homecoming.

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Michael Giacchino Confirms He’s Scoring ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’

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Spider-Man: Homecoming - The Art of the Movie Hardcover – July 18, 2017

[lhb412]

Well, the movie looks totally charming and Vulture looks badass and tokusatsu-y.

I think this is gonna be a good year for Marvel, last two years or so their movies have been a tad 'meh,' for me.

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[tbeasley]

[lhb412]

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the purpose of giving heroes sidekicks in the radio show days so that the hero would have someone to talk to and thus explain things to the audience?

Maybe giving Peter a confidant in this new film serves the same purpose: giving us some of the characters internal monolog that's so interregnal to the comic character but has been missing from the film versions?

[Benjamin Haines]

[Dr Kain]

To add to that, in the original comics, Aunt May was 81 years old, so Peter didn't want to let anyone in on his secret because of her.

Now that Aunt May is like half that age, it wouldn't work because she's not a frail old woman, thus, it works with him having someone to confide in.

[jellydonut25]

The friend character probably serves as an expository character. Normally, that'd kind of be a bad thing (a character who exists just so the audience can get filled in on the backstory is a pretty lazy storytelling device)...but in this case, since it saves us from YET ANOTHER Spider-Man origin film, it's an acceptable thing.

[Dr Kain]

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[lhb412]

If Sony went under I wonder what'd happen to the film library?

[Specium Ray]

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How Spider-Man beats the Justice League -

[lhb412]

The new trailer is rather spoilery, so I didn't like it for that reason (the first gave tone and character and was much more effective), but also: too much Tony Stark/Iron Man! I'm just so tired of that character I tune out when he's around.

Still haven't seen Doctor Strange, even though I really dig the character, because of the vibe I got that they were trying to turn Cumberbatch into Robert Downey Jr.

[Benjamin Haines]

^ Stephen Strange in the new film has more in common with Dr. House than Tony Stark, although the movie is definitely an origin story along the same lines as Iron Man and Batman Begins.

I haven't watched the new Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer yet and I guess I better avoid it. People everywhere are saying it's full of spoilers.

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[lhb412]

I may be bummed by Stark overexposure, but I gotta say: every clip of this movie dealing with the kids is golden.

[The Shadow]

That's a great movie poster -- when it comes to comic book movies we really should see more posters drawn by comic book artists. I don't know if I mentioned it here, but after Disney gave JOHN CARTER it's dismal advertising campaign I brought up somewhere that Disney should have had artists draw movie posters modeled after pulp fiction covers (as John Carter was pulp originated character).

This Spider-Man poster is the same idea, and it's fantastic; I hope we see more such posters for other MCU movies.

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