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Sony to reboot Spider-Man with The Sinister Six?

October 7, 2014 by Gary Collinson

Yesterday Drew McWeeny of HitFix reported that Sony is looking to freshen up its struggling Spider-Man franchise by reaching out to Marvel Studios with a view to having the wall-crawler pop up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Now BadAssDigest has added to the rumour, suggesting that there are several plans floating around at Sony, including a “soft reboot” of Spider-Man with 2016’s The Sinister Six, where a new actor would take over the role from Andrew Garfield and team-up with the villains to take down a larger threat.

The site also goes on to report that another option is to leave Spider-Man on the shelf for four or five years while they concentrate on spin-off movies, which seems to be what Sony is doing anyway, given that it has pushed back The Amazing Spider-Man 3 to 2018.

Seems like a lot of speculation about the future of the Spider-Man franchise at present, so I’d suggest taking this all with a pinch of salt. Personally, I can’t see why Marvel Studios would incorporate Spidey into the MCU without the rights to the character, and if there’s one part of The Amazing Spider-Man franchise that doesn’t need tweaking with a soft reboot in The Sinister Six, then surely it’s Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man..?

Originally published October 7, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.

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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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