Sony Pictures Seemingly Done with Terrible Spider-Man Spin-Off Flicks | Push Square
It looks like PlayStation's parent is done with Spider-Man spin-off films, which is probably for the best. We just learned that Sony's Spider-Man Universe is known as the «SSU» for short, comprising those almost universally-panned film and television spin-off projects, like Venom, Morbius, and the disastrous Madame Web. The upcoming Kraven the Hunter is seemingly set to plumb awful new depths.
Well, the good news is Sony is aware of the fact, and according to an anonymous talent agent speaking to The Wrap (thanks, IGN), the company has «developed what they want to develop for now». The firm will instead bet on a sure thing, focusing on the golden goose that is Tom Holland, the next proper Spider-Man film with Marvel Studios, and the inevitable sequel to its Uncharted adaptation, featuring Mark Wahlberg as Victor Sullivan.
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Will you miss Sony's attempt to make the SSU «a thing»? What makes Tom Holland so likeable and charming that he could portray both Peter Parker and Nathan Drake? Let us know in the comments section below.
Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
Tom Holland was miscast in the Uncharted movie. He makes a fine Peter Parker, but he’s no Nathan Drake. Too young, too immature (in the context of what is supposed to be a worldly wise globetrotting adventurer) and not the right build. They didn’t even have to look far for a better pick, Marky Mark would have made a superior Drake.
The lack of competition in the comic book movie space kind of makes me sad. I wish there were better alternatives to the multiverse stuff marvel is doing right now. I kind of miss Fox having the X-men license tbh. They
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