Back in the day, Sony Pictures and Drew Goddard (“The Cabin In The Woods,” “The Martian”) had once been developing a “Sinister Six” film during the Andrew Garfield era of the ‘Spider-Man’ franchise. “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” ended with a tease for that project, but it ultimately didn’t happen as Sony shuttered that iteration of ‘Spider-Man’ and instead decided to reboot the franchise with Marvel Studios as the producers. The studio has since been focused on fleshing out the Spiderverse with a string of spin-off films, so far focusing on villains with “Venom,” “Morbius,” and “Kraven The Hunter.”
GamesRadar+ brought up the idea of these spin-offs leading to a Sinister Six project to “Morbius” director Daniel Espinosa during a recent chat. However, instead, Espinosa mentioned interest in “Secret Wars,” a crossover event in the comics that saw both heroes and villain groups coming together to battle each other. The filmmaker is keen on the idea of a big crossover event with the Sony-verse characters.
“I remember when I was 12 years old, I read a comic book called ‘Secret Wars,’ and it was when they took all the superheroes to a planet and all the super bad guys to a planet, and they had to fight each other,” Espinosa says. “In Marvel, it always has existed, this great fascination of creating groups and new friendships that can oppose other friendships. And I think that all us Marvel fans would die to see the Sony-verse people together.”
While it remains to be seen if the Sony-verse characters will ever make the tricky jump into “Secret Wars” at Marvel Studios (they likely wouldn’t have the rights to that storyline on their own), there is a crossover event that Sony Pictures might be able to do on their own: “Maximum Carnage.”
In that comic book storyline, Carnage and Shriek, characters from “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” assemble another Sony-owned supervillain team leading to Spider-Man, Venom, Moribus, Black Cat, and others to reluctantly join forces to combat them. It wouldn’t be hard to imagine that being something worthwhile as you could easily throw Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Kraven and Dakota Johnson’s Madame Web into the cinematic version.
As Sony continues to tease future crossovers in the spin-offs, we still don’t know when Holland’s Peter Parker will be allowed to participate in these Sony-verse films or if the studio is simply fueling that fire as a marketing tactic.
Christopher Marc is lead writer at The Playlist and the primary engine behind our daily news coverage. Chris is based in Canada and tracks everything from Marvel and Star Wars developments to arthouse acquisitions and festival buzz with equal enthusiasm and an instinct for the story readers actually want to read.
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