SPIDER-MAN: Marvel Studios Head Discloses Creative Process With Sony and Assures No Full Origin Story
It's hard to tell if fans are more excited to see Captain America and #TeamCap face-off against Iron Man and #TeamIronMan in CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR or if they are more excited to see Spider-Man finally share the big screen with these heroes. Honestly, it's probably a mix of both.
The partnership deal brokered between Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures last year to bring Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe was historic in the movie industry because studios usually don't play well together. Especially when it comes to Disney. But this is Spider-Man and if there was ever a unique deal to be made between a Disney and non-Disney studio it was to be with Sony for Spider-Man.
Now, with Spidey's introduction into the MCU coming in next month's CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, followed by his own solo movie in summer 2017, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige spoke with Collider to briefly discuss the studios' partnership together.
“We’re working very much [together]. It is a— I don’t know exactly what the credits will be, but it is a Sony Pictures production of a Marvel Studios film. The agreement was that it is very much a Sony Pictures movie. Amy Pascal is co-producing it with us and [Sony Chairman] Tom Rothman is leading the charge for Sony and that we are the creative producers. We are the ones hiring the actor, introducing him in this film, and then working right now on the script and soon to be shooting the actual Spidey film.”
Feige then assured fans that the first MCU solo (and still untitled) SPIDER-MAN movie won't be another origin film. However, there are some things that need to happen because those moments are part of Peter Parker's journey to becoming the Wall Crawler.
“We spend a lot of time as we work on these movies saying ‘Don’t take it for granted that the audience saw the other the other movies or that the audience is as versed in the comic books as we are.’ We take great pains to give you everything you need to know within the context of whatever movie you’re actually watching. However, we did say, if it’s safe to assume anything, it’s safe to assume that everybody knows how Spider-Man became Spider-Man and what that backstory was. We’ve seen it a number of times now, it’s its own well-known mythology. So we said, let’s reveal that there’s been a Spider-Man in the MCU and we meet him, as you see, in [Civil War].
“There are events that made Peter who he was, and we’ll certainly allude to those events, but we’re much more focused on his future and how he continues to grow and have a steep learning curve after, certainly, the adventure he had in Civil War on how to be his own hero.”
In other words, Uncle Ben being gunned down as well as perhaps the spider bite which gave Parker his amazing abilities will probably get mentions in the film.
SPIDER-MAN begins filming this summer and releases on July 7, 2017.
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