Sony's Universe Of Marvel Characters

[Miles To Go]

Yes, that is the official name for Sony's big initiative for it's licensed Spider-Man projects

Sony is essentially internally auditioning its more than 900 Spider-Man-adjacent characters, to which it has attached the moniker Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters.

According to Hopkins, the team is “pretty far down the road in terms of working through which characters we think could be their own star of a series.”

Disney has long been drawing from the Marvel well. With its absorption of 21st Century Fox, the Burbank-based giant will soon have “Fantastic Four” and “X-Men,” leaving Sony as the only studio rival with licensing rights to Marvel characters.

“We’re developing a lot of Marvel-related content, and I think we’ll be out in the market very soon with something really, really big and transformational for us, because we’ve not done any shows with Marvel before, with Marvel IP,” says Hopkins. “So that’s a big piece of development that we’re onto.”

There’s plenty of precedent for serializing small-screen comic-book dramas, even without any superhero headliners. Think “Gotham” without Batman, “The Gifted” sans Wolverine, or all the Avenger-less Marvel series that Disney has developed, such as “Agents of SHIELD” and “Jessica Jones.” Plus, the box office success of “Venom” and the recent Oscar-winning glow of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” have bolstered confidence that there’s an appetite for Sony’s slice of Marvel-town.

https://variety.com/2019/tv/features...gy-1203160502/

[Revolutionary_Jack]

My picks:

The Daily Bugle -- A news-show with Jameson and others, showing the origins and others, and so on.

[Unspeakable Evil]

That thread and article that mentioned Sony working on animated spinoff about ITSV characters turns out to be true. Of course that does bring up how exactly do the TV rights work anymore

[Cmbmool]

Wow how straightforward of Sony to label their side of the Marvel Universe. One would wonder what would happen if if Universal Studios did the same thing with theirs rights to the Hulk and his mythos ?

I just wanted a Disney version of Spider-Man that was made by the actual Disney animation company is that too much to ask for ?

[Frontier]

Sony really is going to milk this property until the cows come home .

[Cmbmool]

Sony really is going to milk this property until the cows come home .

Or unless by a chance to fate they get too full of themselves and mess things up again so that Disney and Marvel can swoop in to save the day.

[Spider-Chan]

That thread and article that mentioned Sony working on animated spinoff about ITSV characters turns out to be true. Of course that does bring up how exactly do the TV rights work anymore

RIGHTS: SPE has the exclusive right to utilize the “Spider-Man” character and the other
Creative Elements listed in Paragraph 1 above to (a) develop and produce live action or
animated theatrical motion pictures (each, a “Picture”) and live-action television series
(and also animated television series with episodes longer than 44 minutes), during the
Production Term, and (b) distribute, advertise and otherwise exploit in perpetuity any
motion picture or television series that commenced production during the Production
Term.

[Sectal]

God, I hope for more scarlet spider representation and something for agent venom

[Arsenal]

They should of called it Sony's Spider-Verse