Sony Plans to Reboot Wider Spider-Man Universe After Kraven, Madame Web, and Morbius Failures

Sony Film CEO Tom Rothman has confirmed the institution has plans to reboot Sony's broader Spider-Man Universe aft a bid of high-profile flops successful films similar Kraven, Madame Web, and Morbius.

This comes from a speech with Matt Belloni connected The Town, successful which Rothman answered a bid of questions with reasonably short, yes oregon nary responses. When asked, "is the larger Spider-verse dead?" helium said "No." He past confirmed Sony would spell backmost to those films "at immoderate point." And besides affirmed it would beryllium a "fresh reboot" with "new people." Rothman did not supply immoderate further details.

Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) has struggled ever since it archetypal kicked disconnected successful 2018 with Venom. Though Venom and its follow-ups, Let There Be Carnage (2021) and The Last Dance (2024) did rather good astatine the container office, each 3 were critically panned and mostly received poorly by wider audiences arsenic well. Even worse was Morbius (2022), which was regarded arsenic specified a mediocre movie it became a meme, and which was followed by akin container bureau disasters successful Madame Web (2024) and Kraven the Hunter (2024). At the time, outgoing Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra described Kraven the Hunter arsenic “probably the worst motorboat we had successful the seven-and-a-half years” since helium archetypal stepped into his role. He besides blamed each the SSU failures connected the press, for criticizing them.

If you're curious, these are the reviews for each SSU film, with the people we gave them astatine the time: Venom (4/10), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (7/10), Morbius (5/10), Madame Web (5/10), Venom: The Last Dance (4/10), and Kraven the Hunter (3/10).

As for what this reboot volition entail, Rothman is keeping that nether his disguise for now, though immoderate it is volition apt instrumentality immoderate clip to rotation up. At slightest we inactive person regular ol' Spider-Man, who volition beryllium successful theaters July 31 for Brand New Day.

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