Rumor: Sony Working On Spiderman-less Aunt May Movie
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Here comes Trouble, and I might mean that literally.
It’s been obvious from the various and absolutely crazy rumors about upcoming Spider-Man movies that Sony is struggling to find a direction for the franchise and the crazier the rumors get the more it seems like they’d rather milk the property from every single angle rather than give the main character back to Marvel. What started as rumors of villain-centric series, The Sinister Six and Venom, has been transformed by the increasing chorus of disappointed sighs from Amazing Spider-Man 2 to Venom: Carnage and “a female lead Spider-Man movie” that might be a crazy movie codenamed Glass Ceiling that features female Spider-Man Universe characters that have never been team-up before in history, let alone on screen.
Now, it’s my solemn duty to put another wild Sony thrashing Spider-Movie on the pile of rumored Spider-Man movies. I was told by the Latino Review editorial brain-trust that this is completely true: Sony is pursuing an Aunt May movie.
Yes, an Aunt May movie. A movie about Aunt May as a youth, before she was shouldered with the responsibility of raising Peter Parker. The target mood is some sort of espionage story in the vein of AMC’s Mad Men, which sounds like a way of saying “classier Agent Carter” without name-dropping Marvel’s upcoming series.
But the whole point here is that I NOT mention Marvel, because Sony isn’t giving up the Spider-Verse before they make an attempt at a movie based on the completely fabricated past of May Parker. Well, the espionage part is fabricated.
Marvel, sorry for the name drop Sony, released a Mark Millar-penned romance mini-series in 2003 called Trouble that they thought would be the new origin of Spider-Man. It featured teenage versions of Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Richard and Mary Parker. Through a convoluted series of events, May gets teen-pregnant by Richard but gave up baby Peter to Mary who takes the secret of Peter’s true parentage to her grave.
Spider-Man fans were not happy and the story didn’t sell too well, so that was the end of any attempts to focus on young Aunt May and thereby Spider-Man’s origin reverted back to not-being-the-child-of-Aunt-May.
It seems odd that Sony would give this a try as a way to reboot Spider-Man like Trouble attempted, but using Aunt May as a Agent Peggy Carter replacement character might not have the emotional resonance that Carter has. I’d imagine it’s hard enough to make a successful period, female-lead, espionage thriller regardless of the main character’s future interactions with superheroes. I can’t imagine why Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, keepers of the Spider-Franchise, think that this is easier than Amazing Spider-Man 3. They’d be the two in charge of this endeavor and it seems unnecessary at best and disastrous at worst.
But that’s what we hear is really happening: Aunt May movie.
It’s been obvious from the various and absolutely crazy rumors about upcoming Spider-Man movies that Sony is struggling to find a direction for the franchise and the crazier the rumors get the more it seems like they’d rather milk the property from every single angle rather than give the main character back to Marvel. What started as rumors of villain-centric series, The Sinister Six and Venom, has been transformed by the increasing chorus of disappointed sighs from Amazing Spider-Man 2 to Venom: Carnage and “a female lead Spider-Man movie” that might be a crazy movie codenamed Glass Ceiling that features female Spider-Man Universe characters that have never been team-up before in history, let alone on screen.
Now, it’s my solemn duty to put another wild Sony thrashing Spider-Movie on the pile of rumored Spider-Man movies. I was told by the Latino Review editorial brain-trust that this is completely true: Sony is pursuing an Aunt May movie.
Yes, an Aunt May movie. A movie about Aunt May as a youth, before she was shouldered with the responsibility of raising Peter Parker. The target mood is some sort of espionage story in the vein of AMC’s Mad Men, which sounds like a way of saying “classier Agent Carter” without name-dropping Marvel’s upcoming series.
But the whole point here is that I NOT mention Marvel, because Sony isn’t giving up the Spider-Verse before they make an attempt at a movie based on the completely fabricated past of May Parker. Well, the espionage part is fabricated.
Marvel, sorry for the name drop Sony, released a Mark Millar-penned romance mini-series in 2003 called Trouble that they thought would be the new origin of Spider-Man. It featured teenage versions of Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Richard and Mary Parker. Through a convoluted series of events, May gets teen-pregnant by Richard but gave up baby Peter to Mary who takes the secret of Peter’s true parentage to her grave.
Spider-Man fans were not happy and the story didn’t sell too well, so that was the end of any attempts to focus on young Aunt May and thereby Spider-Man’s origin reverted back to not-being-the-child-of-Aunt-May.
It seems odd that Sony would give this a try as a way to reboot Spider-Man like Trouble attempted, but using Aunt May as a Agent Peggy Carter replacement character might not have the emotional resonance that Carter has. I’d imagine it’s hard enough to make a successful period, female-lead, espionage thriller regardless of the main character’s future interactions with superheroes. I can’t imagine why Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, keepers of the Spider-Franchise, think that this is easier than Amazing Spider-Man 3. They’d be the two in charge of this endeavor and it seems unnecessary at best and disastrous at worst.
But that’s what we hear is really happening: Aunt May movie.
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Lol what !
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Ok yall Trollin
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LOOOOOL where's the link? where did you get this from? the onion?
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Lmao based off the title and not reading this is a joke right?
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Stop
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I don't believe this ?
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I love spider man and I wont even be interested in this
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This makes sense knowing how bad Sony's finances are right now. They need to milk all they can from the Spider-Man franchise.
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I doubt this is true
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I saw this on a few different sites. Didnt wanna be the guy to post it lol. Just sad if true.
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Lmao
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lol wow.. they are ? this ? out for every cent. damn.
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Wow this will be great. I always wondered what auntie mays back story was, she's such a interesting character. Allot of questions I have will finally be answered
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Somewhere in Hollywood Kevin Feige is laughing his ass off. Damn Sony you looking like the crackhead on the corner at this point. How many more years till they have to make the next Spider-Man movie? at some point it automatically goes back to Disney and Marvel Studios if they keep stalling and coming up with these crazy ass ideas. I think if it's 7 years without a movie in production or something like that.
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? yes! I been waiting on this one.
Aunt May >>> T'Challa -
Eh don't believe it
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Not even going to waste a post on this.............................
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INB4 Uncle Ben gets a spin-off
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U know something?
I blame agents of sheild and their habit of giving Q list characters publicity for this stupidity.
would it be so difficult for Sony to call up dreamworks, cut them on some of the deal, and just make a computer animated Spiderman movie for like half the budget so they keep the rights? -
They're gonna end up making a Daily Bugle tv series at this rate.
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They need to make a movie bout black dude who works at the bugle. Robbie? Lol that ? was into that gunplay back in the day with tombstone in the animated series
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rabbitfood wrote: »They're gonna end up making a Daily Bugle tv series at this rate.
You laugh but I would not be surprised if that actually happened.earth two superman wrote: »U know something?
I blame agents of sheild and their habit of giving Q list characters publicity for this stupidity.
would it be so difficult for Sony to call up dreamworks, cut them on some of the deal, and just make a computer animated Spiderman movie for like half the budget so they keep the rights?
You see they're comin out wit a new show about that agent chick from Capt. America right? -
rabbitfood wrote: »They're gonna end up making a Daily Bugle tv series at this rate.
All jokes aside.... that could possibly maybe sorta kinda work in a sense... -
rabbitfood wrote: »They're gonna end up making a Daily Bugle tv series at this rate.
I'd rather see a show about Jonah Jameson then aunt May or mr. With great power comes great responsibility. Lol
I think a 10 minute YouTube movie about uncle Ben would be kinda cool, but that's about it.
