Sony Announces THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3 and 4 Release
Source : collider.com
Just as
Warner Bros. is celebrating its successful launch of what will hopefully be a fruitful
DC Comics Movie Universe with the release of
Man of Steel,
Sony and
Marvel have swooped in to steal some of that DC thunder.
Sony Pictures has announced that
The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and
The Amazing Spider-Man 4 will be
released in theaters on June 10, 2016 and May 4, 2018, respectively. The studio rebooted
the Spidey franchise last year with director
Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man to the tune of over $750 million in worldwide box office, and Webb is currently hard at work filming the follow-up. However, it appears as though
Sony is wasting no time in continuing the franchise even further. Hit the jump for more.
Given that we haven’t even seen a trailer for
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 yet, details for
Spider-Man 3 and 4 are unsurprisingly non-existent. The films don’t have confirmed writers or directors, but given that
Andrew Garfield and co. likely signed multi-picture contracts, the main cast is presumably locked in to appear in
Spider-Man 3 and 4. Sony is basically confirming that it will never, ever, ever give up the rights to
Spider-Man, so those holding their breath for Spidey to join
The Avengers can probably let it go.
In lieu of
Marvel’s successful
Cinematic Universe over at
Disney, we got a hint of a similar kind of connectivity at the end of Webb’s first film as we saw Rhys Ifans’ The Lizard locked away and being visited by a mysterious figure. While
The Amazing Spider-Man teased “the untold story” of
Peter Parker, the character’s origin was subsequently retooled into more of a mystery as the studio opted to play it out over a series of films instead of wrapping up the new origin within the first pic. We’ll likely get more of this with
Spider-Man 2, but just how much of a gameplan Sony has in mind for
The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4 is unknown at this point.
Mary-Jane Watson is poised to be introduced in Spidey 2, played by
Shailene Woodley, so one presumes that character will have a much larger role to play in these recently announced films.
Sony Announces THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3 and 4 Release