Although this is something that those of us who like to be informed of the Marvelian universe know all too well, you may have had no idea that Spider-Man is not really owned by Marvel. Currently, and for many years now, the rights to spider-man belong to sony pictures. So, if this was unknown to you by now you may be wondering, How long will Spider-Man be from Sony? Well, this is just what we are going to talk about today in this article.
Why does Sony have Spider-Man?
To know the answer to this question, which is the true origin of the drama that exists with this character, we have to go back to the 80s.
Despite the fact that the beginnings of this character were incredibly good, his evolution in this decade of the 80s was too advanced for the time. The arrival of spiderman costume to cinemas and television was not received as well as expected.
At that time, Marvel sold certain rights to the character to various companies that, later, went under. The owner of one of them resold these rights to third party companies (among which was Sony, which acquired the home video). As you can imagine, different lawsuits took place between Marvel and this person, something that greatly affected the superhero company financially.
Ultimately, Marvel was forced to sell all rights of what was one of his greatest hits. This was where Sony was quick and took the opportunity to stay with the entire spider-man.
When will Sony 'bring back' Spider-Man?
Although the Sony company made a great acquisition with Spider-Man, the management of its productions did not go too well.
They started with the movie The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012, which was followed a couple of years later by its sequel. And, although Sony intended to make a trilogy of these films, they ended up canceling the project due to the low box office they had.
However, years later Sony and Disney entered into an agreement to revive the project. Disney needed to include his Spider-Man within the Marvel Cinematic Universe for his path to make sense. For its part, Sony wanted to make money with what was a star purchase that it failed to exploit. So this agreement consisted of both sharing the rights to the character, the costs of the productions would be divided between the two, but the biggest financial beneficiary was still Sony.
From this new "union" came the films of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War y Avengers: Endgame o Spider-Man: Far From Home. Although everything seemed to be going smoothly, Disney wanted to renegotiate the rights of the character again to squeeze it at will and the move went wrong: Sony broke the agreement.
When it seemed that Spider-Man would disappear from the UCM Due to the "anger" on the part of Sony, both companies reached an agreement again. In this case, Disney and Marvel would keep a slightly larger percentage of the profits (although nothing compared to Sony's share) and would pay less in production costs. In addition, at the rights level, the mouse company achieved:
- Having the possibility of producing the third part of the new trilogy called Spider-Man: No Way Home.
- That spider-man could appear at least in one upcoming installment of Marvel Studios.
- Include all films (excluding non-MCU ones) in which Spider-Man appears on your Disney+ platform.
Then, How long do Sony's rights to Spider-Man last? The short answer is until they want it. In any case, if you want to know more in depth all the details of Why Spider-Man is from Sony and not from Marvel, you should take a look at the article that we published a few months ago on our website.
Sony knows perfectly well that Spider-Man is a gold mine, and more so at the moment. So, it would be rare for them to renounce it, having already rejected large amounts of money from Disney on several occasions. Even so, some assure that the continuity could be decided with the upcoming movies box office of the related Japanese house, that is, Venom: There Will Be Carnage (already in theaters), morbius and some more tapes that are in the pipeline. If these letters fail, Sony could decide to accept the sale to the mouse company and thus take advantage of the huge amounts of money that it offers to recover this masked superhero.
In any case, if you want to stay up to date with any news on this topic, from El Output We will tell you the minute and result if there is any change in the rights of Spider-Man.