Sony is doing precious little at Comic-Con this year — with no Spider-Man
film in production, the Columbia Pictures panel isn't even in Hall H —
but they'll be back soon enough. Just not as soon as we thought, and
with different titles to promote.
The studio on Wednesday announced that Sinister Six, its supervillain team-up from the Spider-Man "universe," will be released November 11, 2016. It also said The Amazing Spider-Man 3, which had been set for June 10, 2016, is now coming sometime in 2018.
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That prime June date now falls to Uncharted, based on the
Playstation game featuring Nathan Drake — a project that's been in
development for a good long while now and finally gets a deadline and a
fast-track. Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) is already set to direct his first big-budget action project.
Drew Goddard, who made his feature directorial debut on Joss Whedon's The Cabin in the Woods and wrote much of the TV series Lost and Alias, is writing and helming Sinister Six for Sony.
“With Sinister Six in the hands of writer-director Drew
Goddard, we feel extremely confident placing the film on a prime date in
2016,” Doug Belgrad, president, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion
Picture Group, said in a statement from the studio.
It's an important movie for Sony, which is intent on expanding the
Spider-Man universe as much as it can, despite a somewhat disappointing
$706 million worldwide box-office return for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. That's down $50 million or so from the first Spider-Man film starring Andrew Garfield, with most of the softening coming in the U.S.
That could explain why Sony is delaying the film — it's been said
that the first movie turned out very differently from what director Marc
Webb turned in, and the largely negative critical reception that the
sequel earned could have Sony re-thinking it's flagship superhero
strategy. That takes time.
Though it hasn't gotten a specific date yet, The Amazing Spider-Man 3 will already have plenty of competition in 2018 — two Marvel movies, both untitled, and that mystery Fox superhero film (Fantastic Four and X-Men team-up, anyone?) are both slated for that year. Meanwhile Warner Bros. is reportedly setting a Flash/Green Lantern team-up and a Man of Steel sequel.
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