A letter from Sony to Disney/Marvel Studios in regards to the Venom spin-off

@Philip -

1. So we can expect Fox-level continuity issues while the rest of the MCU is the gold standard for comtinuity in cbm's? Great...

2. Marvel doesn't have to approve shit, they don't own Spider-Man or any of the associated characters. And of course they still want MCU characters, but who amongst them would make sense to put in a Venom movie more than SPIDER-MAN who they DO own? Is Sony just going to take and take from Disney?

3. Show me the last movie that was fasttracked within a year that turned out good. How's Gambit coming along btw?

4. Maybe you got me there. But the MCU is undeniably the biggest most expansive franchise ever, excluding James Bond, which the MCU will pass by in entries by 2020.

5. History. When you copy formulas of other studios and rush a project so it comes out in time for a trend to still be relevant, you get bad movies. IE dark and gritty, "realistic" cbm's with Fant4stic.

It COULD be good, but my question is why ruin a good thing they have going by [frick]ing up continuity? Peter gets the symbiote first. Period. He rejects it and thats why the alien hates him. Period. You literally can't have Venom without Spider-Man first. Otherwise you're just changing canon for the sake of whoring out a well known property for money. For someone as big of a fan as he claims to be, Avi Arad is sure out of touch with what makes sense story wise by pushing this Venom fillm.

@Philip - With their animated Spidey movie coming out they will have THREE seperate coninuities of Spider-Man characters. As a movie goer, that just seems unnecessary and frankly, greedy and lazy. As a comic book fan it outrages me that they go to all the trouble of appealing to fany by lending Spidey to the MCU only to turn around and put his most popular villain in a seperate universe. That'd be like if Marvel Studios made all the Avengers movies but without Captain America and still made Captain America movies but not in the MCU. Anyone who knows anything about how movies are made can see that this isn't a "creative" decision, its a "we're broke and need money so lets pump out as much as we can in the shortest period of time" decision.

And it just makes no sense why they would go to all the trouble of joining with Disney to share Spidey but then turn around and do their own thing, which up until now has done nothing for them besides generate poor reviews and nearly force them to sell their entire movie division. Why do you think Sony even lent out Spidey to begin with? Because Disney asked real nice? Because Sony cares about the fans? If you do you are seriously naive and have no idea how businesses are run.

@Philip @FictionFantom - Problem is your stretching the character too thin for the audience, 'whats the point of watching this one we can watch the one next month'. Thats going to create a black lash on the profit of all the films. Us comic book fans cry when theres another reboot for Spider man can you imagine what the ordinary audience thinks?

Your right MCU could have Venom still, we don't know the full rules yet. But even if they had the rights why would they want to confuse their work over Sony's version. Yeah happened with Quicksilver but he was added to Days of Future Past at the last second when Marvel Studios already signed off AOU, Whedon said. Prob the reason they killed him off.

This is really disappointing that Venom is a film not in the MCU.........I'm really happy that peter is in highschool as we can get these films about him growing up in a world of heroes. The black suit/venom story would of worked well within that concept, dealing with anger and then the consequence of that. That could of been great.

Now the Venom film might be great itself defo with the idea of its a horror but it will always be missing something and at the end of the day might as well be called something else.

@tonytony - Because Sony following their visionhas woeked out so well for them up until now right? That's why they lent out the bigest most bankable intellectual property to a rival studio, right? And also why they needed Marvel to hold their hand in making Homecoming?

My biggest question is why not have this in the MCU? They already have their own seperate universe with the Animated Spider-Man movie coming out. So Sony will have three seperate continuities of Spider-Man characters? WHY????