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Disney-Sony Standoff Ends Marvel Studios & Kevin Feige’s Involvement In ‘Spider-Man’
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The fact that it's Sam Raimi making superhero movies is reason enough.
whaaaaaaat sony bought insomniac?!!
boomer :(
but i guess it makes sense
... since when is an ill informed take ban worthy???
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Marvel own the game rights, but SIE have an exclusive license to standalone Spidey games. The deal also had nothing to do with the movies, so pretty big stretch from people thinking it'd be affected by this.
I watched it in 4K a couple of weeks ago. It looks great. Some CGI has aged though but overall, it's a great movie.
Are you... trying to act morally superior?
I made the post under the erroneous assumption that Disney had been financing the films up to this point whereas it was actually Sony. So your post makes sense but even with a 50/50 split this would be preferable for Sony over them trying to do it themselves.
Lol, I see way worse on a daily basis (usually the other way around) in the Gaming forums.
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It isn't. I was just posting this because he asked what tweet people were speaking of.
Wasn't it Sony that didn't come to the table after Disney proposed that?
It's Sony's biggest film property. It's best for them to keep as much control as possible. Neither company cares about the fans they want the biggest piece of the Spide-Pie possible.
I'm sure this will work out.
I mean, it HAS to work out or else they have to Reboot SM a 4th time.
(Cause for w/e reason, be it Sony's suggestion or w/e, THIS Spider Man is so deeply tied to a MCU character and the MCU world that to take out all references to the MCU would leave so lil on the table it would be laughable. His damn suit and that suit's AI is Stark Tech ... the Avengers and Tony are huge drivers for his character and he's bank rolled by Happy/ Left over Stark money. All his villains are related to Iron Man and Alien tech from the Avengers)
I mean, it HAS to work out or else they have to Reboot SM a 4th time.
(Cause for w/e reason, be it Sony's suggestion or w/e, THIS Spider Man is so deeply tied to a MCU character and the MCU world that to take out all references to the MCU would leave so lil on the table it would be laughable. His damn suit and that suit's AI is Stark Tech ... the Avengers and Tony are huge drivers for his character and he's bank rolled by Happy/ Left over Stark money. All his villains are related to Iron Man and Alien tech from the Avengers)
Holy shit! Fuck that guy...
Wait no, I honestly don't give a shit because he's literally just posting his opinion on Twitter.
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The blowback on this will be something else. I think that's likely the point. I'm not panicking - I'm certain there will be a deal to move this forward.
Wait, the deal for Spidey in the MCU had Disney actually paying Sony?
Are you kidding? They were going to lose their minds over it regardless.
That mountain of salt could supply dinner tables the world over for the next three centuries.
When they say dumb shit? Yeah it is. Why does him deleting tweets make him untouchable? People bring up deleted tweets from people who have made a fool of themselves all of the damn time. Mocking fanboys is standard practise everywhere. We have threads mocking Snyder fanboys and TLJ hating nutjobs all of the damn time. Like the dude hasnt even deleted all of the dumb shit he's posted today.
No I dont see any merit in not laughing at dumbshit fanboyism and assuming that he could have mental health issues.
Well this is a bummer. I don't trust Sony with the property. What are they going to do? Retcon everything and never mention it? Lol
Venom was garbage but still managed to make money. I'm guessing whatever they do will be more of the same. The only fluke being into the spider verse.
Venom was garbage but still managed to make money. I'm guessing whatever they do will be more of the same. The only fluke being into the spider verse.
Actually Disney came to the table with 50%, Sony came back with keeping the existing deal as is, and Disney is the one that bailed.
Yeah, I understand Sony owns the film rights, and they could make however many Spider-Man movies they wanted.
I just figured the Tom Holland version of the character created in partnership with Marvel and heavily integrated into the MCU might have had some limitations on it through whatever deal Marvel made with Sony, but apparently not.
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Yeah, hard to judge without knowing details.
Though, in case that it means splitting all costs and the entire revenue 50:50, Sony would lose 50% of their profit. So they would be a lot worse off, wouldn't they?
lol, I remember back in the old place there were so many Sony fans in the gaming side. Not to mention the amount of "Nintendo is doomed" posts too. It was unbearable.
I'm not saying he's untouchable, and like I said earlier, there's a way to do it. If you don't think some of the ManaByte dunks in this thread are over the top, I don't know what to tell you.
Nuanced nothing. The reason they weren't hits is due to Sony's mismanagement in regards to how much they wanted ASM to be a platform to immediately launch a cinematic universe. To say "they would have been hits if they didn't cost X" doesn't let them off the hook, because that discrepancy only exists because Sony mismanaged the damn enterprise in the first place.
Sony has done NOTHING to prove that they can keep momentum from a solid first effort before cracking it up with franchise plans. The fact that they've announced a bunch of movies that are supposed to coexist with Venom and no less than two follow ups to Spiderverse on top of Lord and Miller signing a five year deal to develop this stuff for television is more than enough proof they're set they're willing to ruin whatever good will they've earned.
Thing is post TASM Spider-Man benefited hugely from the MCU, and the current Chairman at Sony, Rothman, ran the X-Men franchise into the ground, and initially mothballed Deadpool.
Not exactly a good track record for the Sony Spiderverse
User since March calling for Manabyte to be banned for a hot take, strap in buddy you're in for a long ride.
If you thought the last movies weren't all that then you better buckle in because the joyride to shitsville is getting going.
Mod post - get back on topic and cut out the derail
I wonder what Feige's involvement on Venom was. Couldn't have been much since that movie is awful.
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