In the past when people have tossed around ideas of crossovers between properties like Iron Man, X-Men, Spider-Man, and Daredevil, it’s often come from a lack of realization that Marvel’s film rights were long-ago carved up between studios like Fox and Sony, and that Marvel is only just beginning to have ownership of most of its roster. At that point suggesting Sony would lend their flagship comic character back out to Marvel for a cameo was laughable, but now that Marvel is the one with the billion dollar hit and Sony is busting out with a relatively buzz-less superhero reboot, apparently the tables have turned…
While not a substantive indication that we can expect any cross-studio hero cameos anytime soon, Movies.com is reporting that a mere design-team scheduling issue precluded a negotiated easter egg that would have placed the Oscorp building of Amazing Spider-Man into the New York skyline of The Avengers. While it didn’t ultimately turn out this time, it’s natural enough to assume that it might work out in the future.
Does this mean we’ll see Spiday swinging into the Avengers HQ anytime soon? Unlikely, but with Marvel now the financial flag-bearer for comic book films, you can bet Sony (if not Fox) would be more than happy to play nice with some superhero synergy. High tides rise all boats and all…
Just something to chew on.
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It would work well if you just had a character name-drop Spider-Man or one of the other Fox or Sony properties. It would especially make sense for Reed Richards’ name to pop-up in an Avengers-related film, even if the character doesn’t actually appear.
I really don’t think we need to start down this road with crossovers. The Avengers worked because the universe was established with all of these characters in mind, and each of the previous films created a world where having all of these characters exist at the same time made sense. As a kid, it never made sense to me why, in the comics, characters like the Fantastic Four were lauded as heroes and celebrities when Spider-Man and the X-Men were fighting the same villains on the same streets, and they were feared and persecuted. It’d bother me now, watching these characters in films when Capt. Stacy has his entire police force chasing down Spider-Man, who takes on small-time villains and crooks, while Iron Man and The Hulk are ripping up entire city blocks and being praised.
Is it too late to throw a stinger on the end of Amazing Spiderman where Cap comes to investigate this Spiderman character roaming the streets of his fair city? It need be nothing more than Downey’s appearance at the end of The Incredible Hulk. Spiderman is about to bust up some thugs, when he’s interrupted bya star spangled shield flying across the screen.
Of COURSE this will happen. Now that Avengers has crossed the “billion dollar juggernaut” threshold, all bets are off. Everyone wants to get down on the sequel. By the time an Avengers 2 is getting ready to roll, so (probably) will the next Spiderman….it’s win-win for everyone involved. As we got closer to the Avengers release date, and expectations were starting to soar, and everyone was getting all hyped up, I was seriously beginning to think that they already HAD struck a deal with Sony, and they had the King of All Easter-Eggs lined up to make fanboys explode in the theaters. Sure, Thanos was great and all for the nerds (of which I am one…I squealed like a little piglet when he appeared) but Spiderman would have even had the NON-nerds busting. Anyway, I’m rambling, this WILL happen, guaranteed. Money trumps everything else, all the time.
I totally would’ve busted bodily fluids if Spidey showed up at the end of Avengers. I sadly only have the slightest knowledge of Thanos.
But isn’t Spider-man a part of the Ultimate Avengers or something? Seeing as how Spider-man pretty much kick started this era of super hero movies (I say “era”, it looks like superhero movies will become an actual genre. Action, Horror, Superhero, etc), I always thought it’d make sense to gravitate towards that formation of the Avengers. At least in a mainstream money kinda way.
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