Aunt May (Sony/Spider-man prequel)
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Aunt May (Sony/Spider-man prequel)
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Rumor Patrol: Sony Developing Aunt May Spy Movie Without Spider-Man
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Rumor Patrol: Sony Developing Aunt May Spy Movie Without Spider-Man
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Here comes Trouble, and I might mean that literally.
It’s been obvious from the various and absolutely crazy rumors about upcoming Spider-Man movies that Sony is struggling to find a direction for the franchise and the crazier the rumors get the more it seems like they’d rather milk the property from every single angle rather than give the main character back to Marvel. What started as rumors of villain-centric series, The Sinister Six and Venom, has been transformed by the increasing chorus of disappointed sighs from Amazing Spider-Man 2 to Venom: Carnage and “a female lead Spider-Man movie” that might be a crazy movie codenamed Glass Ceiling that features female Spider-Man Universe characters that have never been team-up before in history, let alone on screen.
Now, it’s my solemn duty to put another wild Sony thrashing Spider-Movie on the pile of rumored Spider-Man movies. I was told by the Latino Review editorial brain-trust that this is completely true: Sony is pursuing an Aunt May movie.
Yes, an Aunt May movie. A movie about Aunt May as a youth, before she was shouldered with the responsibility of raising Peter Parker. The target mood is some sort of espionage story in the vein of AMC’s Mad Men, which sounds like a way of saying “classier Agent Carter” without name-dropping Marvel’s upcoming series.
But the whole point here is that I NOT mention Marvel, because Sony isn’t giving up the Spider-Verse before they make an attempt at a movie based on the completely fabricated past of May Parker. Well, the espionage part is fabricated.
Marvel, sorry for the name drop Sony, released a Mark Millar-penned romance mini-series in 2003 called Trouble that they thought would be the new origin of Spider-Man. It featured teenage versions of Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Richard and Mary Parker. Through a convoluted series of events, May gets teen-pregnant by Richard but gave up baby Peter to Mary who takes the secret of Peter’s true parentage to her grave.
Spider-Man fans were not happy and the story didn’t sell too well, so that was the end of any attempts to focus on young Aunt May and thereby Spider-Man’s origin reverted back to not-being-the-child-of-Aunt-May.
It seems odd that Sony would give this a try as a way to reboot Spider-Man like Trouble attempted, but using Aunt May as a Agent Peggy Carter replacement character might not have the emotional resonance that Carter has. I’d imagine it’s hard enough to make a successful period, female-lead, espionage thriller regardless of the main character’s future interactions with superheroes. I can’t imagine why Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, keepers of the Spider-Franchise, think that this is easier than Amazing Spider-Man 3. They’d be the two in charge of this endeavor and it seems unnecessary at best and disastrous at worst.
But that’s what we hear is really happening: Aunt May movie.
It’s been obvious from the various and absolutely crazy rumors about upcoming Spider-Man movies that Sony is struggling to find a direction for the franchise and the crazier the rumors get the more it seems like they’d rather milk the property from every single angle rather than give the main character back to Marvel. What started as rumors of villain-centric series, The Sinister Six and Venom, has been transformed by the increasing chorus of disappointed sighs from Amazing Spider-Man 2 to Venom: Carnage and “a female lead Spider-Man movie” that might be a crazy movie codenamed Glass Ceiling that features female Spider-Man Universe characters that have never been team-up before in history, let alone on screen.
Now, it’s my solemn duty to put another wild Sony thrashing Spider-Movie on the pile of rumored Spider-Man movies. I was told by the Latino Review editorial brain-trust that this is completely true: Sony is pursuing an Aunt May movie.
Yes, an Aunt May movie. A movie about Aunt May as a youth, before she was shouldered with the responsibility of raising Peter Parker. The target mood is some sort of espionage story in the vein of AMC’s Mad Men, which sounds like a way of saying “classier Agent Carter” without name-dropping Marvel’s upcoming series.
But the whole point here is that I NOT mention Marvel, because Sony isn’t giving up the Spider-Verse before they make an attempt at a movie based on the completely fabricated past of May Parker. Well, the espionage part is fabricated.
Marvel, sorry for the name drop Sony, released a Mark Millar-penned romance mini-series in 2003 called Trouble that they thought would be the new origin of Spider-Man. It featured teenage versions of Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Richard and Mary Parker. Through a convoluted series of events, May gets teen-pregnant by Richard but gave up baby Peter to Mary who takes the secret of Peter’s true parentage to her grave.
Spider-Man fans were not happy and the story didn’t sell too well, so that was the end of any attempts to focus on young Aunt May and thereby Spider-Man’s origin reverted back to not-being-the-child-of-Aunt-May.
It seems odd that Sony would give this a try as a way to reboot Spider-Man like Trouble attempted, but using Aunt May as a Agent Peggy Carter replacement character might not have the emotional resonance that Carter has. I’d imagine it’s hard enough to make a successful period, female-lead, espionage thriller regardless of the main character’s future interactions with superheroes. I can’t imagine why Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, keepers of the Spider-Franchise, think that this is easier than Amazing Spider-Man 3. They’d be the two in charge of this endeavor and it seems unnecessary at best and disastrous at worst.
But that’s what we hear is really happening: Aunt May movie.
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This was posted in the Venom/Sinister Six thread, but I will copy and paste my thoughts below.
A movie with Aunt May as a youth? So basically they are making an adaptation of the Trouble miniseries which was a comic with teenage Ben, May, Richard, and Mary?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_%28comics%29
That's supposed to be May and Mary on the cover pic below.
A movie with Aunt May as a youth? So basically they are making an adaptation of the Trouble miniseries which was a comic with teenage Ben, May, Richard, and Mary?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_%28comics%29
That's supposed to be May and Mary on the cover pic below.
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I have a feeling that Sony has thrown every idea out into public view to see if anything gathers interest. I don't think they know what they want to do. This was trending on facebook rather quickly today. General reaction is, "sell the property back to Marvel, fast."
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What really puzzles me is that Sony does actually have many good options for Spider movies.
They could make an Ultimate Spider-Man movie with Miles Morales.
They could make a Spider-Man 2099 movie with Miguel O'Hara.
They could make a CGI animated movie with Spider-Ham.
Instead they give us shit like an Aunt May movie and a Sinister Six movie.
They could make an Ultimate Spider-Man movie with Miles Morales.
They could make a Spider-Man 2099 movie with Miguel O'Hara.
They could make a CGI animated movie with Spider-Ham.
Instead they give us shit like an Aunt May movie and a Sinister Six movie.
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I'm hoping for an Uncle Ben prequel where we finally discover how he makes that delicious rice!
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What really puzzles me is that Sony does actually have many good options for Spider movies.
They could make an Ultimate Spider-Man movie with Miles Morales.
They could make a Spider-Man 2099 movie with Miguel O'Hara.
They could make a CGI animated movie with Spider-Ham.
Instead they give us shit like an Aunt May movie and a Sinister Six movie.
They could make an Ultimate Spider-Man movie with Miles Morales.
They could make a Spider-Man 2099 movie with Miguel O'Hara.
They could make a CGI animated movie with Spider-Ham.
Instead they give us shit like an Aunt May movie and a Sinister Six movie.
I'm surprised Sony hasn't made a move on a Spider-Woman film.
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Sounds good.
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Do they have the rights to Jessica Drew and Julia Carpenter?
I'm sure the villain w/ the name is Spidey cuz she did debut in his comic. Mattie Franklin is in there too, I'd assume. But Drew and Carpenter may not be cuz they themselves as characters have no direct affiliation w/ Spidey. Aside from Sony owning any moniker w/ the spider title... those two may be w/ Marvel. Not like it's a big really but I did like Drew a lot.
I'm sure the villain w/ the name is Spidey cuz she did debut in his comic. Mattie Franklin is in there too, I'd assume. But Drew and Carpenter may not be cuz they themselves as characters have no direct affiliation w/ Spidey. Aside from Sony owning any moniker w/ the spider title... those two may be w/ Marvel. Not like it's a big really but I did like Drew a lot.
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Also, aren't they involved in "Spider" events like Spider-Island and the current Spider-Verse?
I'm pretty sure Sony owns everything "Spider" no matter how tangentially related to Spider-Man it may be.
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If Helen Mirren plays Aunt May i'm in.
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Either way...Sony may have just covered their whole bases on anything related to a spider title.
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Wrong. Mutants created after Fox got the movie rights go to Fox. I know Azazel and Angel in the First Class movie were created in the mid 2000s, after the contracts were signed. Sony could possibly be different, but I very seriously doubt it.
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I assume Sony holds the rights to anything Spider-related. Checking online, Spider-Woman seems to be a great mystery. One site talking about the rights says they include other characters core to the Spider-Man universe, such as The Sinister Six and Venom. I guess it depends on how much Sony and Marvel want to argue the issue. The 616 Spider-Woman is not "core" to Spidey's universe. In fact, she was only created to secure a trademark.
Anyways - Sony just announced that the Aunt May rumor is false. Move along. Nothing to see here.