It's been in the news this past week how Marvel Studios and Sony have talked about working together to bring "Spider-Man" back into the Marvel Cinematic Universe where he rightfully belongs.
Those discussions reportedly fell through, but word has it that insistence from Sony Pictures' parent company could mean that talks may start up again...and ol' Webhead might yet cross paths with the mighty Avengers on the big screen. But, if that does indeed happen, it appears the current Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield, won't be the one doing the web-slinging.
This is all very hypothetical at this stage of the game, but this latest news comes from Latino Review, whose sources indicate that Marvel is in no way interested in giving creative control of "Spider-Man" to Sony or "honoring the contracts with Sony's Spider-Stars."
That would mean Andrew Garfield is out as Peter Parker if and/or when Marvel gets its way. The Review also adds that the rumored Aunt May solo film and Female Spider-Man team-up flick were the real deal, and that Marvel Studios "severely disliked" those concepts.
"If the Marvel/Sony deal were to go forward," writes the Latino Review, "Andrew Garfield would no longer be Peter Parker and any baggage from existing films, [directors Sam] Raimi or [Marc] Webb, would be non-canonical." Marvel wants a clean slate, apparently, and they are not interested in doing any more so-called "romance" movies but would rather "focus on the difficulties of being a teenager and a superhero with a romance side-story." Neither is an origin story part of the plan, so a Marvel Spidey movie would reportedly pick up with Peter Parker already living his double life as a hero.
On top of that, the sources disclose that Spider-Man making his debut in "Captain America: Civil War," which is one item that Sony and Marvel had discussed before their initial talks broke down, could still happen and would serve as Spider-Man's introduction to the MCU...which would be a bit odd because the revelation of Spider-Man's true identity is one of the major plot-points in the "Civil War" comics.
The Review also notes in the article that Sony Pictures CEO Amy Pascal has a major issue with Marvel's desire to ditch Garfield. That is something The Wall Street Journal also stressed when they broke the Marvel/Sony story earlier in the week. But Pascal, who is embroiled in the Sony hacking scandal (the basis of the original "Spider-Man" reports), has bigger fish to fry than casting issues at this moment in time.
