SPIDER-MAN: Marvel Studios Head Talks Spidey in the MCU, Solo Movie and the Deal With Sony



It's been many months since the announcement of Marvel Studios and Sony partnering up to bring SPIDER-MAN into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While the dust has settled from the announcement, the excitement level couldn't be any higher... at least for right now and before he is first seen in CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR next year.

While promoting the Blu Ray releases for AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige spoke a little bit about the deal his studio cut with Sony for Spidey (via Collider).

“Making that agreement with Amy [Pascal] and Mike [De Luca] and Tom Rothman at Sony was great and really amazing. On a personal level making these movies it means a lot because you can do great things with Spider-Man and he can serve a great purpose in our universe, and that’s where he belongs. That’s what was unique about him in the comics, not that he was the only superhero in the world, it was that he was a totally different kind of superhero when compared against the other ones in the Marvel universe. … It means a lot and now we better not screw it up.”


Feige then spoke about the currently-in-development SPIDER-MAN solo movie.

“The most important thing is the stand alone movie, re-launching Spider-Man with a stand alone movie with a new storyline that fits into this universe. That’s job number one for us. And as is the case, the connectivity is great but it doesn’t drive the train… This has been a dream of ours for a long time, and we always had contingency plans should you know—which we always do anyways. Are we going to be able to make another movie with this actor? If we are then we’ll do this, if not, we’re going to do this. If we get the rights to a certain character that’d be great, then we’d do this, if not, we’d do this. So we always sort of operate with those alternate timelines available and are ready to shift if something happens.”

Not world-breaking news but any new tidbit of info shared by Marvel (or Sony) about Spider-Man is always good to hear.

The untitled SPIDER-MAN movie stars Tom Holland, will be directed by Jon Watts, is slated to begin filming in summer 2016 and releases on July 27, 2017.