Because it's Morbius. And Sony. And Jared Leto. And Sony is already trying to make Madame Webb sound like an actual movie. Does that sound like a studio who knows what it's doing?
I might be wrong. Sony will definitely want it to be wrong and hope casuals assume it's another MCU film like Venom. But if it flops, then the Venomverse is going to look really shaky if Tom Hardy and (hopefully) Woody Harrelson is all that really works so far. They will want Tom's Spider-Man over there ASAP to patch that thing if so.
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Yeah, Sony just hired the Morbius writers to develop the Madame Web film so they must have some amount of confidence in Morbius. I wouldn't bet on it tanking.
As for Sony and Disney reaching a deal, I feel like it was inevitable that they would find a way to make this happen - if only for the sake of a smooth transition.
It benefits no one to have Spidey simply jerked out of the MCU. At least give a satisfying resolution and then if the studios want to go their separate ways, then at least it won't seem so abrupt.
Still doesn't make it not weird to me. To each their own, but the style and tone of Spider-Man's solo adventures and the FF don't make the character mesh with me. Meh.
Unknown character is a crap excuse these days. I'll grant you the other points, though I can barely keep up with which actors are or aren't draws these days.
So it's Morbius? Ant Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Venom, Shazam, Aquaman, characters' comic book fame means nothing to the general audience who haven't heard of most of these guys anyways. Same with Madame Webb, what we think about these characters doesn't matter to their possible success as films. And Sony aren't some "can never make a profitable movie ever" studio. It sounds like a studio who is trying to expand the only superhero franchise it has to milk more money out of the superhero craze, which business wise is what they should be doing.
I'm just saying, using the comic book character's comic book fame or lack of as a measuring stick, and always assuming Sony will fuck up, is kind of the wrong reasons to assume anything here.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's already plans for Sony and Marvel/Disney to sit back at the table and (attempt to) arrange something more long term after Spider-Man 3 is released.
Agreed. Reception to both Venom (audience success) and Into The Spider Verse (critics success) is what probably caused the divide the first time, so now there's an extension maybe reaction to both Morbius, Venom 2 and any other announcements might decide if Holland sticks around in the MCU or not, assuming they don't just agree to merge the Venomverse into the MCU altogether and avoid shutting Peter from one reality to another.
Looks like I was right that it was a 75/25 split after all. Glad to see they came to an agreement. It looks like Sony also got what it wanted by allowing for Spider-Man to be used in Sony’s films too.
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I mean, of course Sony wants to see returns on the third Spider-Man film before reupping more long term. I mean, they had to give up 25% of the movie to Disney to make this happen. My guess is that if it performs better than Far From Home, they’ll go back with a 75/25 split for future installments.
With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.