The recent aggressive attack on Sony from a hacker group has revealed that American screenwriter, film and television director, Joss Whedon will be replaced by Anthony and Joe Russo (Russo Brothers) to direct Marvel’s two-part sequel, Avengers: Infinity War (Part 1 & Part 2).
After the recent emails leak about Marvel trying to get Spider-Man for Captain America: Civil War. Now another batch of emails confirm that Russo Brothers will direct Avengers: Infinity War Parts I and II, according to Overtice.
In an exchange between Sony Pictures co-chairman, Amy Pascal & Russo Brothers in November, Russo said that it was too bad the talks between Sony and Marvel broke down.
Further adding that they will likely direct two-part sequel, Avengers: Infinity War and assured Pascal that regardless of what happens with Avengers: Infinity War, they will still direct Sony’s Gray Man movie starring Robert Downey Jr.
Additionally, Russo told Pascal that they can produce Spider-Man on a new contract. It is unclear if that would be with just Marvel or both Marvel & Sony.
In a different email Amy Pascal talks about the future of Spider-Man at Sony.
Producer Avi Arad requested Pascal to greenlight the Venom movie based on Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes’ sales and promotion, which features the character.
In an earlier email, Sony asked director of original Spider-Man trilogy, Sam Raimi for assistance and Pascal remarked his work with first two Spider-Man movies, compared him to American film director, screenwriter, and producer, Joel Schumacher for Spider Man 3.
The email also includes a conversation between Amy Pascal & former Warner Bros. chief, Jeff Robinov who is with Sony now, he doesn’t want Sony to make a deal with Marvel.
Pascal says she is unsure about Sony’s Spider-Man, “I’m worried Sinister Six might not be the right [way to go],” and, “I just have the Spider-Man universe and not the Marvel universe.”
Robinov then recommends Stan Lee or someone who is knowledgeable of Spider-Man.
“Can you help me figure it out tomorrow? Unless I make the partnership with Marvel and Spider-man to join their world, I’m running out of options,” Pascal concludes.
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Source: Overtice.
No, we don’t need Spider-Man in the MCU to make Civil War work. Wasn’t that the whole point of introducing Black Panther in that film in the niche where the wallcrawler would’ve been? As the costumed superhero whose identity still remained secret up to that point of being forced to pick a side regarding being for or against the Superhuman Registration Act? Which, by doing so, would cause his secret identity to become public knowledge and thereby puts him and any loved ones in danger by both his enemies and the public?
If SONY is this desperate to try to keep Spider-Man but also have his franchise succeed, then they really should just swallow their pride, hand the rights back over to Marvel Studios and let Marvel do what they want with the character. With or without Andrew Garfield, since while he’s an alright Peter Parker, he’s not a bad Spider-Man. His movies were still good despite how much everyone loved Raimi’s 1 & 2 and 3 broke records. But, have to admit, Raimi went fairly liberal with how close he would adhere to source material. The Amazing movies stuck much closer to it, even if they had to paraphrase Spider-Man’s memorable quote: “With great power, comes great responsibility”. I applaud Sheen for being able to deliver that line to us differently: “Your father believed that if you had the power to do good things, then you had a moral obligation to do them for others. Not choice. Responsibility.” See what director Webb did there?
I’m also 1 of the people that feels the X-Men & Fantastic Four would get much better movies if they were back with Marvel Studios as well. As much as everyone loved Days of Future Past, it’s still not without TONS of mistakes, continuity errors, incorrect character or power portrayals and all the wrong characters/actors. While EVERYONE seems to have such a hard-on for JLaw, Mystique isn’t enough of a fan-favorite character to deserve a spin-off film. I guarantee you, the entire premise or theme of her movie would simply be self-identity. While she can hide behind anyone’s face, who is she really? At least Gambit getting a spin-off has more potential and Tatum, while physically may not look the part, has a Southern background and could easily get the role right if he gets the Cajun accent spot on. And as entertaining as Quicksilver may’ve been, the costume, character and power portrayal were wrong. For the “Time in a Bottle” scene, they essentially overpowered him and turned him into a time-stopper instead of speedster at the expense of de-powering or rendering the other mutants useless or powerless in that scene. You’re telling me Wolverine’s reflexes (or the mere fact that he is bulletproof) wouldn’t have done more than simply unsheathe bone claws? Or Magneto wouldn’t have ducked or responded with more metal objects in the air? Could’ve easily introduced us to another speedster mutant too. One that has the Canadian connection to Wolverine and could’ve been a nice little hint to Alpha Flight: Jean-Paul Babier aka Northstar. This would’ve also acknowledged that mutants could also be homosexual since he’d be the 1st introduced in the franchise. But, nope, Singer figured he could snag the rights to the Maximoff twins, Avengers director Whedon’s favorite characters, away from using them in Age of Ultron. But, the joke’s on Fox since Marvel Studios still managed to get the twins into a movie and on the big screen first via the Winter Soldier mid-credit scene.
And, as for the Fantastic Four reboot that’s already got tons of Internet news/rumors going against it from a questionable cast choice to a different origin story to a less-than-interesting villain origin, the real test will be if it can out-earn $$$ from Ant-Man premiering 2 weeks before it on the big screen. The 1st 2 films’ director, the guy that directed Barbershop, didn’t do too bad with the franchise but it still would’ve been better if done by Marvel Studios.
So, in conclusion, no to SONY partnering with Marvel Studios. Just swallow pride and admit that Marvel Studios knows how to make movies of their own characters/franchises better than any other studio ever will.
Spidey the best!!!