Our long national nightmare is over! About a month ago, the news came out that talks between Disney and Sony to keep Tom Holland’s Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe were dead due to a contract dispute. People blamed Sony, people blamed Disney, and poor Peter Parker was stuck in his bedroom listening to his parents scream at each other downstairs.
Now, though, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige has announced that the web sliger will be back in the MCU for at least one more movie, set to arrive in July 2021. There’s no word on whether there will be more appearances from Spidey after that, but it buys two-plus years for both sides to come to terms on a new deal.
This is mutually beneficial, IMO: in July’sĀ Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man was set up as the future of the franchise and we were left on a cliff-hanger for the character after Mysterio and J. Jonah Jameson revealed his true identity. Now, we get to see that story line resolve itself, the face of Disney’s current crown jewel franchise sticks around, and Sony gets a good chunk of the profits from future Spider-Man movies. Win-win-win.
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