Kevin Feige Reportedly Warned Sony Pictures About Developing The SPUMC Without SPIDER-MAN

Kevin Feige Reportedly Warned Sony Pictures About Developing The SPUMC Without SPIDER-MAN

Sony Pictures found success with its first two "SPUMC" movies, but Morbius was a different story, and a new report indicates that Marvel's Kevin Feige warned the studio not to "get ahead of itself."

By MarkCassidy - Jul 07, 2022 08:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Morbius

Even though Sony Pictures' first two "SPUMC" (the studio's Spider-Man-less Spider-Man cinematic universe, basically) movies, Venom and its sequel Let There Be Carnage, weren't big hits with critics, they both found success at the box office. The more recent Morbius, however, not only received scathing reviews, but greatly underperformed in theatres.

There seems to be a perception that Sony may have become a little overconfident after the massive success of Spider-Man: No Way Home, but that movie had Spidey (three of 'em, in fact), input from Marvel Studios, and was widely regarded as a very well-made film (which does tend to help).

Now, a new report indicates that Kevin Feige did actually warn Sony about the potential pitfalls of developing a shared cinematic universe of Spider-Man characters without the involvement of the iconic wall-crawler himself.

According to The Ankler, "Marvel’s Kevin Feige does weigh in and offer notes on Sony’s Marvel movies that don’t feature Spider-Man. One insider credits Feige for guiding Sony’s approach and warning the studio not to get too ahead of itself in terms of building some larger universe in the vein of the Avengers movies."

With Venom 3, Kraven the Hunter, Madame Web, and the highly-anticipated El Muerto on the way, the studio clearly took heed of Feige's advice. To be fair, it remains to be seen how these upcoming projects turn out. Maybe Morbius will prove to be nothing more than an unfortunate dip on a steady upward trajectory of quality?

What do you guys think? Was Morbius unfairly bashed? Are you looking forward to any of the upcoming SPUMC movies? Drop us a comment down below.

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OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 7/7/2022, 8:06 AM
Someday someone has to spill the beans on what Feige has said internally about Sony, Fox and WB's screw ups over the past 14 years. He puts on a good face for the public, but you know there's some generational trashtalk going on behind closed doors
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 7/7/2022, 8:09 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd -

I don't particularly care about his relationship with whatever FOX executives, but with Pascal and Rothman from SONY I'm itching to know like you.
Dannywest
Dannywest - 7/7/2022, 8:12 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd - imagine a tv series in the vein of mad men set in a Disney like studio, You have your pixaresque dpt.where guys are creeps over there, the Marvel dpt. Where the Main guy in Charge is condescending to everyone else and then the SW camp that is the Golden goose but the person in Charge screws it every time
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 7/7/2022, 8:15 AM
@Dannywest - man you beat me by 1 minute.

A series based on Fiege's come up will be amazing. Already got a title.

Super Producer. 😅 Disney better pay me for that.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 7/7/2022, 8:21 AM
@UnderBelly - Super Producer

Come on. Executive Producer.
Dannywest
Dannywest - 7/7/2022, 8:22 AM
@UnderBelly - it could work, the story of a guy that used to server coffee for the higher ups and now it's doing better than them? It writes itself
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 7/7/2022, 8:39 AM
@Reeds2Much - you know what I mean. Lol.

@Dannywest - for sure. Its got so much potential but I'm sure getting everyone on board will be a difficult sell as so much will probably get exposed.
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 7/7/2022, 8:07 AM
Not just Feige.

HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 7/7/2022, 8:11 AM
"Highly-anticipated El Muerto"

What the fck
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 7/7/2022, 8:17 AM
@HeavyMetal4Life - I can only assume it's a sarcastic joke (that's what I hope at least).
TheClungerine
TheClungerine - 7/7/2022, 8:14 AM
Kevin F: so you going to take my advice?

Sony:


Quality of the spumc


Sony execs looking at the reviews:

DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 7/7/2022, 8:21 AM
@ClungeAndThunda -

...why not LoveAndClunger?
Scarilian
Scarilian - 7/7/2022, 8:57 AM
@ClungeAndThunda -
To be fair, Feige has sh*t advice a lot of the time.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 7/7/2022, 8:59 AM
@Scarilian -
• The first Venom movie made 8x it's budget
• Spider-man: NWH is the highest grossing Phase 4 film by over 1bn and was primarily Sony decisions.

Also note that Feige is still part of a rival company, so may be attempting to sabotage Sony - especially likely when we consider he wanted Tobey Maguire to be killed off in NWH which would have angered a lot of people.
TheClungerine
TheClungerine - 7/7/2022, 9:02 AM
@DrReedRichards - 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 I never thought of that 1 🤣
Dannywest
Dannywest - 7/7/2022, 8:15 AM
A shame, i don't think You could build a universe with the characters they're trying to push, they couldve done al the alternate realities spidermen and each time make it a genre film futuristico si Fi(2099), film noir(noir), early 2000 teen com (ultimate)
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 7/7/2022, 8:22 AM
@Dannywest - That's like the obvious route that they should have taken, but of course they decided against it. A Noir Spider-Man film with Hammerhead or Tombstone as villains could be great, but probably will never happen.
Dannywest
Dannywest - 7/7/2022, 8:26 AM
@Urubrodi - Right? I think morbius and Venom are the only two sm villains that could support on their own and only for a few films
roboticJohnson
roboticJohnson - 7/7/2022, 8:15 AM
At this point not even the ghost of stan lee would be able to stop them, they have this idea for a cinematic universe and they'll go through with it no matter what, which is kinda hilarious if you think about how they cancelled tasm 3 back then.
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 7/7/2022, 8:24 AM
@roboticJohnson - WEll the Venom movies did make money. But if they start bombing with the rest of them like Morbius did, I'm pretty sure the plans will change. In the end of the day it's all about money.
roboticJohnson
roboticJohnson - 7/7/2022, 8:33 AM
@Urubrodi - True, but at the same time they could fool themselves into thinking they have something on their hands and keep trying to make it a success. I mean, morbius failed when it was released, and a bunch of memes was all it took for them to re-release it and fail again. That alone tells me they are delusional at the very least. What's stopping them from making a morbius sequel that's just an unwatchable mess full of scenes inspired by the memes, in an effort to make money? What if they actually get him to say "it's morbin' time"? Their goal may be making money, but what scares me is the road they'll take to get there.
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