Over the past year and a half, we’ve heard plenty of speculation about the chances of the wall-crawler teaming up with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes for a crossover between Sony’s Amazing Spider-Man franchise and Marvel Studios’ box office juggernaut The Avengers – mainly because the producers, director and star of the rebooted Spider-Man universe just can’t stop bringing it up.
Well, Andrew Garfield and Marc Webb have been at it again during an interview with Yahoo! Movies to promote the upcoming release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, with Garfield quoted as saying: “I would love that. I know the fans would love that, the fans of the Marvel universe… the more the merrier, the bigger the better.”
Director Webb – who has recently been confirmed as returning for The Amazing Spider-Man 3 – then went on to reveal that there had been efforts to take Spidey into the MCU: “I would love [a crossover], as a fan, I think that would be great. I don’t know how that would happen, but I certainly would be supportive of it. There’s efforts that were made [to make a cameo happen], but obviously nothing came to fruition.”
With Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), The Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and now Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), and The Vision (Paul Bettany) all on the roster for The Avengers: Age of Ultron, it would appear that Earth’s Mightiest Heroes have few vacancies at present, and while I’m sure fans would appreciate a Spider-Man cameo somewhere down the line the chances of it actually ever happening are surely slim to none…
Originally published February 28, 2014. Updated April 11, 2018.
