Under the deal, the new Spider-Man will first appear in a Marvel film from Marvel's Cinematic Universe (MCU). Sony Pictures will thereafter release the next installment of its $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, on July 28, 2017, in a film that will be co-produced by Kevin Feige and his expert team at Marvel and Amy Pascal, who oversaw the franchise launch for the studio 13 years ago. Together, they will collaborate on a new creative direction for the web slinger. Sony Pictures will continue to finance, distribute, own and have final creative control of the Spider-Man films.
Marvel and Sony Pictures are also exploring opportunities to integrate characters from the MCU into future Spider-Man films.
The new relationship follows a decade of speculation among fans about whether Spider-Man – who has always been an integral and important part of the larger Marvel Universe in the comic books – could become part of the Marvel Universe on the big screen. Spider-Man has more than 50 years of history in Marvel's world, and with this deal, fans will be able to experience Spider-Man taking his rightful place among other Super Heroes in the MCU.
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The Spider-Man move has been speculated for some time. Among the fanboy crowd, talk of a partnership between the companies arose last summer after the poor reception of Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Although the movie made $708 million worldwide, it was the lowest of all the franchise entries. More critically, the movie was widely panned by fans. Talks were confirmed when emails leaked during Sony’s hacking crisis although they seemingly broke down in the fall.
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Now that Spider-Man is a part of Marvel's Cinematic Universe starting with a "new creative direction" slated for July 28th, 2017, Marvel Studios is pushing a number of its films back to make room and avoid competition. The next Thor movie would have gone head-to-head with Spider-Man but is now taking Black Panther's original November 2017 premiere date. In turn, Black Panther is taking Captain Marvel's slot, which in turn is taking Inhumans' slot, which is now slated for July 12th, 2019.
The two-part Avengers: Infinity War movies, however, are not budging. That does change which films happen in between Infinity War and pushes Inhumans to after every other film. Marvel's Cinematic Universe has so far been pretty big about keeping all its films within the same universe — each installment building on the same overarching narrative. Which is to say, there's a good chance that some of Larger Plot Points are now being moved around, and that Inhumans might be the beginning of a new Phase (to use its own parlance).
Here's the full list. Updates are in bold.
- Avengers: Age of Ultron: May 1, 2015
- Ant-Man: July 17, 2015
- Captain America: Civil War: May 6, 2016
- Doctor Strange: November 4, 2016
- Guardians of the Galaxy 2: May 5, 2017
- Spider-Man: July 28th, 2017
- Thor: Ragnarok: November 3rd, 2017
- Avengers: Infinity War, Part 1: May 4, 2018
- Black Panther: July 6th, 2018
- Captain Marvel: November 2nd, 2018
- Avengers: Infinity War, Part 2: May 3, 2019
- Inhumans: July 12, 2019
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A visual guide to Marvel character movie rights
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Which Marvel movies has Stan Lee not made a cameo in?
Among them: X2, Elektra, X-Men: First Class, Guardians of the Galaxy
Which has he been in? (enjoying the video from the above Guardians of the Galaxy link): X-Men, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Hulk (with Lou Ferrigno), Spider-Man 2, Fantastic Four, X-Men: The Last Stand, Spider-Man 3, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Iron Man (as Hef), The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2 (as Larry King), Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man.
This updated list also includes: The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Agents of SHIELD, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Guardians of the Galaxy (contradicting the article above), Big Hero 6.
And I recently just saw him on Agent Carter.
And the best is yet to come?
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