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Hollywood flogs so many dead horses that the American Humane Society would be the most in-demand agency in town, if it was not just a figure of speech. Yet dead horses they will continue to flog, like Spider-Man.
Or, to be precise, like the failed SPUMC – the Sony Pictures Universe of… ah, I can’t be bothered. That useless thing they tried that failed spectacularly. You know the one.
Madame Web, Venom, Morbius, and Kraven. Spin-offs from Spider-Man featuring no Spider-Man.
Despite an almost clean slate of failure, Sony Pictures CEO Tom Rothman has confirmed that they will go again.
He was on Matt Belloni’s The Town podcast and he confirmed that they will be going back to this pile of IP, but they will go again with new people involved and it will be a reboot.
Old Chinese proverb, when in hole, stop digging.
Speaking of China, it appears that the one bit of the world of Spider-Man that actually works, the Marvel co-movies, was impacted by refusal to kowtow to the Chinese and their sensitive nature.
Acknowledging that the deal with Marvel has been great for both Sony and Marvel, Rothman spoke about Spider-Man: No Way Home not being released in China.
The reason? The Chinese wanted the Statue of Liberty to be cut completely out of the movie. So that’s the whole climax, which takes place on, in and around the statue.
Rothman says they refused:
“I really didn’t look forward to standing up, sitting in there in front of Congress, telling them why I cut the Statue of Liberty out at the request of the Chinese Communist Party.”
The next Spider-Man movie won’t feature the statue though. We see you!
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