Much to the delight of fans everywhere, Tom Holland's Peter Parker is set to stick around in the MCU for another trilogy following Spider-Man: No Way Home's release. Of course, Sony Pictures still has its own Marvel Universe that features characters like Venom, Morbius, and Kraven the Hunter, so what's the plan for that moving forward?
Talking to Fandango, veteran Spider-Man producer Amy Pascal addressed the difference. "Well, there's the Marvel Universe, which is one container and then there's the Spider-Verse movies, which are different and then there's the other universe where the Sony characters are in. We all are very respectful of each other and work together and make sure that we're only being additive."
Asked directly if fans should expect to see Holland's version of Spider-Man in a movie that's not connected to the MCU, Pascal cryptically responded with, "We all want to keep making movies together. How’s that for an answer?" It seems we'll remain in the dark about whether Sony plans to use the web-slinger in their villain-led movies. and what, if any, role Marvel Studios will play moving forward.
The site did push Pascal on the possibility of a live-action Miles Morales or a movie that pits Holland's Spider-Man against Tom Hardy's Venom, and it sounds like the door could be open.
"I would say there's so many things that we're going to be able to explore, but what we always have to do before we decide who the villain is going to be and what Spidey goes up against is what is the story we're telling about? You know? What's the Peter Parker story we're telling? What's the Miles Morales story that we're telling? But we always have to start with that. The good thing about these movies is as big as the canvas they take place on can be, they are always just stories about a kid."
It appears the future of Spider-Man on the big screen is something of an open book for now, though we're definitely excited by the possibilities. Before talking too much about what comes next, we're sure both studios want to share Spider-Man: No Way Home with the world, and it's entirely possible that movie will set the stage for the direction this next trilogy will take the wall-crawler in.
Spider-Man: No Way Home arrives in U.S. on December 17 and in the UK on December 15.