Why Sony’s Spider-Man Universe Movies Don’t Have Spider-Man In Them

Story by Matthew Aguilar

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Sony's Spider-Man spinoff movies sidestep the web-slinger due to audience acceptance concerns, exposing the studio's 'corporate entanglements' in the superhero space.

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According to a Sony source, the studio's deal with Disney never actually precluded them from using Spider-Man in non-Spidey titled films, but they opted against it due to fears audiences wouldn't accept Tom Holland's Spidey outside the MCU context.
Sony execs view their superhero world-building as working within a 'cage', with a top exec describing it as 'really hard' to navigate the 'corporate entanglements' of studio collaborations, forcing them to 'make one good movie at a time.'

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