For better or worse, Drew Goddard's Sinister Six movie is stuck in development hell. The writer and director left Daredevil and gave up the opportunity to helm The Martian in order to concentrate on the spinoff, but the Sony Hack changed everything, as did a deal between Marvel and Sony (putting this and a number of other Spider-Man projects on the shelf for the foreseeable future). Asked by IGN how it felt to have Sinister Six snatched away from him, Goddard explained: "[For] me, the making of it is the special part. Then after that it’s the business part. Like, I want people to see these things, but it’s done. And with Sinister, you know I love that script, it was really fun. I love the artist I was working with. I’d love to make that movie someday. But if we don’t? I still got to write it. I still got to do it. And you can’t take that away from me, man."
Goddard wouldn't reveal which villains he chose to be part of his Sinister Six, but surprisingly explained that the exposition heavy finaly few minutes of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 would have had very little impact on what he had in store. "I felt strongly that I wanted this movie to just stand on its own. I feel like, in general, I get tired of these movies where they’re becoming too much of a puzzle for people to solve. I’m like, no, just have fun." That's fair enough, but this also emphasises just how directionless Sony were in their plans for the Spider-Man franchise.
Finally, talk turned to the dynamic of the movie, and it sounds like we wouldn't have got two hours of the wall-crawler battling out with six of his greatest villains. "When you’re doing just a straightforward superhero movie, you don’t need a lot of villains. The focus is on one guy. I think with Sinister, it’s different. To me it's less about too many villains and more about too many antagonists and there’s a distinction. You never say, like, The Dirty Dozen has too many characters. They’re all villains, or you could argue that. But they’re protagonists. The trick with Sinister, is that I was making everyone the protagonist and less about six-on-one and more about coming at it a little differently. That was the idea." What do you think about these comments?