Sony's Spider-Man Spinoff Universe Might Be Dead as Company Confirms It Has No Movies in Active Development

It looks similar Sony's Spider-Man spinoff beingness whitethorn person travel to an extremity aft films similar Madame Web, Morbius, and Kraven the Hunter failed to fulfill audiences.

Sony Pictures president and CEO Tom Rothman confirmed its country of Marvel moviemaking is presently without a program during an interrogation with Variety. While the Venom trilogy starring Tom Hardy mostly managed to find occurrence astatine the container office, the captious and commercialized reception for projects similar Madame Web (2024) and Kraven the Hunter (2024) has the institution reconsidering their future.

"Right now, we don’t know," Rothman said erstwhile asked if determination are plans to grow connected Sony's beingness of Spider-Man characters. "We ne'er looked astatine it arsenic the 'Sony-Marvel Universe.' We looked astatine if determination were worthwhile movies to marque with different characters. At the moment, determination are nary successful progressive development."

Rothman elaborated, saying that "the assemblage wasn't satisfied enough" with the live-action movies that filled retired what galore referred to arsenic the "Sony-verse." Starting with Hardy's Venom successful 2018, the afloat roster included that film, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Morbius, Madame Web, Venom: The Last Dance, and Kraven the Hunter. Although Sony had, astatine 1 point, planned to integrate Spider-Man into the villain-led offshoots, specified a crossover ne'er came to fruition.

Kraven arrived arsenic the last effort to summation traction amongst comic publication movie fans erstwhile it premiered successful December 2024, but similar galore of the different Sony Spider-Man spinoffs, it failed to marque an impact. Starring Marvel alum Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the movie opened arsenic the worst-performing introduction successful the Sony Marvel movie series, with reviewers – including IGN – walking distant little than impressed.

Despite the memes made on the way, it sounds similar the mediocre show has Sony rethinking however it uses these characters. Rothman's words contiguous suggest his reboot teases from earlier this twelvemonth mightiness beryllium connected clasp for a agelong portion to come, if they materialize astatine all, aft the movies failed to link with audiences the archetypal clip around. At slightest there's inactive an animated Venom movie connected the way.

"Whether that’s a just appraisal of those movies, who know," Rothman added, touching connected the deficiency of interaction connected audiences. "That’s howling into the wind. The assemblage is the boss, and they didn’t respond. It’s arsenic elemental arsenic that."

For now, the main Spider-Man beingness is going strong. Spider-Man: Brand New Day conscionable broke records successful theaters, prompting Rothman to instrumentality a changeable astatine the anti-theater sentiment that's driven conversations amongst moviegoers the past fewer years. For more, you tin cheque retired IGN's afloat breakdown for each Spider-Man beingness movie successful development.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).