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Rumour: Disney looking to buy Spider-Man rights from Sony

October 15, 2019 by Gary Collinson

If rumours are to be believed, Disney is looking to avoid any kind of repeat of this summer’s Spider-Man custody battle with Sony by buying out the movie rights to the iconic Marvel character.

This report comes by way of Geekosity (which according to Yahoo, has a decent track record… but not one that we can verify ourselves), Disney is looking to pay between $4 billion and $5 billion for the rights to the web-slinger, and see him as an “anchor” for the Marvel Cinematic Universe now that Iron Man and Captain America are gone from the franchise post-Avengers: Endgame.

Should there be any truth to this rumour, it means that Disney is potentially willing to spend more to get Spider-Man than it did to acquire the entirety of Marvel Entertainment ($4.24 billion) and Lucasfilm ($4.05 billion).

Of course, with Fantastic Four and X-Men now back at Marvel Studios following Disney’s Fox acquisition, Spider-Man is the only Marvel property which doesn’t fall under its control, and so naturally one would assume that Disney would jump at the chance of a deal. However, given that Sony is working on a slate of Spider-Man spinoff films to follow last year’s Venom – not to mention multiple Spidey-related TV shows – it remains to be seen whether Sony would be willing to give up the web-slinger, particularly when it’s a little short on the franchise front.

Whatever happens, Marvel fans do have at least two more Spider-Man appearances in the MCU to look forward to, with Disney and Sony agreeing an extension on the previous deal which covers a third solo film and an appearance in another Marvel Studios movie.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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