“This is not the last movie that we are going to make with
Marvel — [this is not] the last Spider-Man movie. We are getting ready to make
the next Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland and Marvel, it just isn’t part of…
we’re thinking of this as three films, and now we’re going to go onto the next
three. This is not the last of our MCU movies,” Pascal said.
“Marvel and Sony are going to keep going together as
partners,” she added.
While it may seem obvious that more Holland-starring
Spider-Man movies would be on the way, the unique licensing deals around the
character mean that things are much more complicated. That’s because, unlike
virtually every other major Marvel hero, the rights to Spider-Man (and his
associated villains, allies, and side characters) aren’t owned by Disney —
they’re owned by Sony, who picked up the rights to the character all the way
back in 1998.
A major 2015 agreement between the two companies allowed
Marvel Studios to integrate the character into the incredibly popular Marvel
Cinematic Universe series of films, in exchange for Marvel Studios co-producing
Spider-Man films set in that same universe for Sony Pictures.
That deal has seen its ups and downs over the years, with
drama in 2019 seeing a dispute between Sony and Disney almost end the deal over
profit-sharing negotiations from the MCU films (the first two of which have
nearly hit a combined $2 billion at the box office), although the companies
were able to patch things up a few weeks later with a new deal (the details of
which are still largely unknown).
That quirk of licensing leads to a lot of the weirdness with
the recent Spider-Man films — like the fact that Spider-Man: Homecoming and
Spider-Man: Far From Home aren’t available on Disney Plus or why Tom Holland’s
incarnation of the character has yet to appear in the recent Venom films or the
upcoming Morbius.
Since then, though, things appear to have been more amicable
between the studios. Sony Pictures recently signed a deal that would license
out future film releases for Disney’s streaming platforms starting in 2022. And
Marvel Studios has already announced an animated prequel to its Spider-Man
films, Spider-Man: Freshman Year, coming to Disney Plus in the future, too.
Still, while Spider-Man’s future in Marvel Studios films is assured, Pascal was more coy about the character showing up in Sony-produced films in the future, telling Fandango that “[we] all want to keep making movies together. How’s that for an answer?”
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