With Sony trying to spin-off every Spider-Man villain and supporting character into their own movie, pretty soon their film slate is going to start reading like Marvel solicitations from circa 1995.
With Sony trying to spin-off every Spider-Man villain and supporting character into their own movie, pretty soon their film slate is going to start reading like Marvel solicitations from circa 1995.
Where's the Prowler movie?
Slingers tv show on Freeform?
Spider-mobile animated kids show?
How do they determine what belongs in the Spider-Man world and what belongs in the MCU? Do the contracts give a list of every single character that they are entitled to use? In which case, what foresight!
I mean, I remember the Kingpin as a Spidey villain--same with Punisher. So I gather not every character introduced in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN comics belongs to the Sony Spider-Man movie world.
Kingpin is considered a Daredevil foe as far as film rights go. Marvel is interested in using villains that didn't appear in previous movies.
I dont know if that info was ever released but I assume Marvel made packages to offer with characters listed and fox or Sony probaly countered with certain characters they wanted included. Like IIRC fox specifically requested deadpool included with the Xmen. So I assume Marvel packaged Kingpin with daredevil to make his rogue gallery better. Because spiderman was already an easy sell and didnt need it.
There are characters not specifically listed that are up for grabs
Skrulls and the Twins for example. Then you have X23 who was created after the deal but Is specifically without doubt a Xmen character. So Marvel probaly didnt fight them on her but if either company wanted to be petty I assume lawyers coulda fought over the twins or Skrulls.
I'm just realizing you asked a simple question and I didnt answer it at all. I just speculated on how I think it might have worked
I was assuming j9ac9k meant the Hobie Brown version of Prowler, not the Aaron Davis version that showed up in Homecoming. Though I suppose most people wouldn't care at this point.
Though, while we're chasing this train of thought, how about a Green Goblin movie. Not Norman or Harry Osborn, though. The Phil Urich one.
Oh good! Someone else who's still a bit stuck on the old-school version of things. Even all these years later, my baseline frame of reference for Spider-Man stuff is still the '90s cartoon series. It took me forever to find out who Miles Morales even was. I had to Google the new Prowler's name.