By The other day came a trade article going into the various woes that Sony Pictures has had with its assorted Marvel fare.
The piece indicated Sony was done with its Spider-Man spin-off universe following the disastrous reception to “Madame Web,” “Morbius” and now “Kraven the Hunter” which is having an opening weekend of $11 million – worse than the already low expectations.
A Deadline piece on the latter film’s box-office has now revealed some more about Sony’s Marvel films.
First they touched upon “Madame Web”, a film famously impacted by atrocious ADR and some serious post-production changes. The trade says a reason the film was such a mess came down to studio interference:
“The reason why Madame Web was so disjointed was because the studio cut several pages from the screenplay before the S.J. Clarkson-directed female Spidey movie went into production, causing, you got it, act two and three problems.”
They also indicate that the final act of “Morbius’ final act was completely reshot. A lot of the problem seems to tie to Sony going into production without a strong script and the trying to fix the films in post.
The trade says: “the studio is taking this misfire very seriously and a reset is in store for the non Spider-Verse and non-Tom Holland Marvel properties.”
That means they’re not rushing the animated “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse” and so there are “no plans for that threequel to hit the 2025 release calendar.”
Despite the “Venom” box-office success, Sony seemingly lost Marvel fans long ago and are only now just realising it.
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