Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
This is a statement issued by "former director" to the Press, so you have to factor that this could be the kind of agent-mandated 'buzz' or pot-stirring rumors that publicists recommend clients to give out. This isn't coming from anyone at the top of Sony and Disney.
Could it happen? Only with some modifications of the Sony-Disney deal. Unlikely but not implausible.
Will it happen any time soon? No. Given the Pandemic, and given the current priorities of Sony (Venom 2, Morbius, ITSV-2, Homecoming 3) and Disney (Black Widow, Eternals, New Mutants, Disney Plus shows on furlough, Homecoming 3, Eternals, Shang-Chi), it is in any instance something that is very back of the line.
Furthermore, remember that Silver/Black was promoted initially as a movie project, and now the director wants to convert it into a Disney/Plus series. So that means script rewrities and change in logistics/production, so delays in pre-production.
There's also the Catwoman factor. A major problem with Felicia Hardy making the jump to the big screen has been that she is very similar to Selina Kyle/Catwoman. So any time there's the possibility of Catwoman coming back to the big screen, people become reticent about using her. This happened to Raimi's prospective fourth Spider-Man movie which at one point was going to feature a version of Felicia until they heard reports of her being featured in the third Batman film, and so they converted her into the Vulture and so on. Given the flourishing of the superhero genre and the success of various versions of similar archetypes (Iron Man is similar to Bruce Wayne/Batman but that hasn't stopped him from getting over) I think this is less of an issue than before. But Zoe Kravitz (who voiced MJ in ITSV, ironically) is playing Catwoman in Matt Reeves' new movie.