• Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works
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    13 minutes ago

    For all the people confused about this headline because of the runaway success of the last 5 spider-man films, they’re specifically talking about the spider-man-less spider-man universe films

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    Make a remake of the Bollywood one. Keep Govinda as Superman. Use all the same effects, but boost the production value. Use the same choreography with floating head digi-doubles, animated by the Little Mermaid FX team.

    If you can get the budget over a billion dollars, I’d see it once in theaters.

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    I was confused because I thought the recent Spider-Man movies did really well, but apparently they’re counting Morbius, Madame Web, and Kraven the Hunter as part of the “Spider-Man universe”. Turns out “Spider-Man” movies without Spider-Man in them don’t tend to do well.

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    AGAIN? In my lifetime now I have seen… god how many 4 separate spiderman reboots? This is literally the definition of insanity. Take. The hint. Sony, we are tired of superheroes. They’re fun, but god can you give it 2 years without doing a spiderman film?

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          Sony made the deal in the late 1990s when Marvel was basically bankrupt. They didn’t predict that Disney would eventually own the whole thing and turn it into a behemoth.

          To be fair, the fact that it is now a behemoth is probably a factor in why Sony continues to throw money at it instead of letting the rights lapse. The more people Disney gets into Marvel, the more potential for better return on a Sony-made movie in the same universe. At least that’s probably what the execs think.

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        So our only hope is that they keep on making shit movies until they decide they’re only going to keep on losing money and hand it back to marvel

        Or… They could just revive the Spectacular Spiderman series, right? Everyone loved that show.

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      Sony, we are I am tired of superheroes.

      Ftfy

      I’m not tired of superheroes. I’m tired of the same superheroes being rebooted again and again, and then shitty, poorly written, poorly acted money grabs.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    “You say, ‘$1.9 billion, what’s wrong with [saying] 2?’ Well, it didn’t get into China, but in my mind [the film’s box office is] over 2 [billion] because I know what we would have done in China.”

    These people need a fucking reality check, for a litany of reasons.

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    Correct me if I’m wrong, but the way it sounds is that they’re not touching Tom Holland’s version of Spiderman, but rather they’re starting from scratch with all the extended Spiderman universe (e.g Venom, sinister-six, Madame Web, Kraven, etc…)

    Especially considering Rothman is quoted as saying “Never bet against Kevin Feige”.

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      Yes. Sony has the rights to everything Spider-Man except for modern normal Spider-Man (Tom Holland is Marvel). Sony made Spider-Verse, Madame Web, Venom, they can only make Spider-universe stuff. They could make a real Spider-Gwen movie and it would probably be a hit. That’s what the trailers for Madame Web looked like it was going to be, until I made the mistake of watching it.

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    Did they ever consider that maybe people are actually tired of Spider-Man? He’s been on TV or in theaters constantly for the last 60 years, retelling the exact same story, rehashing the same few “classic” runs of the comic. Maybe we’re just generally tired of “genius loser with superstrength”. Maybe we don’t need another high school story. Maybe, just maybe, they should look at a genuinely new property rather than Disney dreck.