{"id":300896,"date":"2026-02-25T04:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300896\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T04:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:37:07","slug":"sony-will-reboot-extended-spider-man-universe-studio-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300896\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony will reboot extended ‘Spider-Man’ universe, studio chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony Pictures is looking to spin a new web with Spider-Man<\/a> characters.\n<\/p>\n

The studio’s CEO, Tom Rothman, confirmed in a recent interview<\/a> that Sony plans to reboot its interconnected universe of wall-crawling Marvel characters in the unspecified future.\n<\/p>\n

On the latest episode of Matthew Belloni’s The Town podcast, the journalist asked Rothman, “Where are we in the Spider-Man franchise? Not the animated Spider-Verse. Is the larger Spider-Verse dead?”\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Rothman responded, “No.”\n<\/p>\n

Belloni then asked, “Are you going to go back to those at some point?”, to which Rothman responded, “Yes.”\n<\/p>\n

Belloni also asked if the new iteration of the universe would be a “fresh reboot” with “new people.”\n<\/p>\n

Rothman confirmed both ideas, acknowledging that the next wave of Sony-Marvel movies will feature fresh faces.\n<\/p>\n

Tom Hardy as Venom in ‘Venom: The Last Dance’.<\/p>\n

Courtesy Sony Pictures<\/p>\n

Later in the conversation, Rothman discussed the declining box office returns for superhero movies after Belloni asked about his thoughts on Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

“To your question about Spider-Man: Scarcity has value,” Rothman opined. “You’ve got to make the audience miss you. It’s the old thing. I always had trouble getting girls to go out with me twice, but until fortunately, my wife took pity on me, but absence makes the heart grow fonder.”\n<\/p>\n

Sony has held the rights to theatrical Spider-Man projects since 1999, and produced Sam Raimi<\/a>‘s trilogy of hits starring Tobey Maguire<\/a> as the central web-slinger in the 2000s. After a pair of somewhat disappointing reboot films starring Andrew Garfield<\/a> in the early 2010s, the studio teamed up with Marvel Studios to bring Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017, featuring Tom Holland in the lead role. A year later, Sony launched its first Spider-Man spinoff movie, Venom.\n<\/p>\n

Since 2018, the studio has released six live-action Marvel movies based on secondary Spider-Man characters: Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Morbius, Madame Web, Venom: The Last Dance, and Kraven the Hunter. None of these movies actually featured Spider-Man, and all of them received negative reviews from critics, without a single “fresh” Rotten Tomatoes score among them.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

And, in direct contrast to Rothman’s point about scarcity, Sony’s last three Marvel movies all bowed in 2024, meaning the studio’s comic book movie output outpaced both DC (which only released Joker: Folie a Deux that year) and Marvel Studios (which only released Deadpool & Wolverine).\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

While the implications of Rothman’s comments aren’t completely clear, it seems safe to assume that viewers won’t see Tom Hardy<\/a> as Venom, Dakota Johnson<\/a> as Madame Web, Jared Leto<\/a> as Morbius, or Aaron Taylor-Johnson<\/a> as Kraven the Hunter in a new wave of films. (But this is the same studio that brought three Spider-Man universes together in No Way Home, so anything is possible!)\n<\/p>\n

Tom Holland in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’.<\/p>\n

Matt Kennedy\/MARVEL<\/p>\n

Sony’s next theatrical Spider-Man project is the Destin Daniel Cretton-directed Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which will see Holland’s Peter Parker cross paths with Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk and Jon Bernthal’s Punisher. The film is set to release July 31.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Sony is also joining forces with Amazon MGM to put forth its first live-action Spider-Man TV series, Spider-Noir<\/a>. The show will star Nicolas Cage as a gumshoe version of Spider-Man in an alternate 1930s New York City. Cage previously played an iteration of the character in the 2018 animated hit Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, though it remains to be seen whether or how Spider-Noir might connect to Sony’s other Spidey projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony Pictures is looking to spin a new web with Spider-Man characters. The studio’s CEO, Tom Rothman, confirmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-300896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}