All good things come to an end…as do all poorly planned out and largely terrible things. After a producing six films–all of which were poorly reviewed by critics and two of which stand among the worst examples of the superhero genre–Sony’s abominable Spider-Man Universe has mercifully been put down…and it never even got a Spider-Man.
Ahead of the December 13th release of Kraven the Hunter, The Wrap’s Umberto Gonzales reported that the studio has decided to cease development on further projects set within the “universe” that kicked off in 2018 with Venom.
“They’ve developed what they want to develop for now,” explained one of Gonzales’ sources, adding that the studio has instead chosen to focus on their collaborative efforts with Marvel Studios on Spider-Man 4. “It’s really about the next ‘Spider-Man’ film,” said the source.
According to The Wrap’s report, Sony slowly came to the realization that audiences were not showing up at theaters because they didn’t want to see terrible movies. “The biggest issue with the Sony Spider-Man spinoffs seems to be the lack of quality control,” shared a Sony insider. “The movies just aren’t good.”
Unfortunately, nobody at Sony saw fit to evaluate projects such as Morbius and Madame Web before subjecting relatively innocent audiences to the horrors contained within them. “Sometimes that lack of quality meets a movie no one asked for, which was the case with ‘Madame Web,’ and that is a no-win scenario,” explained the insider while describing a movie that was actually given a green light by someone at Sony despite no one asking for it and then released in theaters despite being historically awful.
It’s unclear what Sony’s decision means for Knull, a character they just propped up as a potential big bad in future projects…but that was honestly probably the case already.
RIP dogshit.
Source: The Wrap
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