Sequels Sony's Aunt May the Movie...???

[Dasher10]

Wow, Fox and Sony are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

It isn't hard to get Doctor Doom right. He's a fairly easy villain to write yet Fox dropped the ball AGAIN.

Spider-Man shouldn't get spin-offs until we get a really great Spider-Man film and NOBODY wants to see a film based around May Parker. If you're doing Spider-Man spin-offs, you don't put all the sidekicks into one film and then call it something totally unrelated like "Glass Ceiling", you just do films about Silver Sable and Black Cat and then call it a day. Venom works better as a villain who will sometimes team-up with Spider-Man and he can't be done until you do Spider-Man with the black costume first.

And nobody wanted or asked for the Sinister Six to be anti-heroes. They're meant to be villains who assemble just to kill Spider-Man. They don't go on a journey of, "redemption." Sony right now is grasping for straws. They have no idea what they're doing and it shows.

Either just push out a much improved sequel for Spider-Man or sell the rights back to Marvel. Fox has the X-Men and Marvel has The Avengers. You can't build a shared universe around just one character, particularly when he's tied to the Avengers.

 

[John Locke]

The funniest part about this is that they could do the same thing with a Richard Parker movie. Bring back Campbell Scott and Chris Cooper. That could be a respectable movie but no let's make an Aunt May espionage prequel.

 

[Lord]

Spider-Man is a strong property, a shame they don't focus first on getting the solos right, though SONY has good reasons to try milking the franchise until it starts giving them gold, as it's one of the few guaranteed successes they still have.

It isn't hard to get Doctor Doom right. He's a fairly easy villain to write yet Fox dropped the ball AGAIN.

While i love Dr.Doom, i wouldn't exactly agree with that, he's still tricky to pull off in an interesting way, as he can very easily end up as a one note moustache twirling villain, hell, that pretty much how he's portrayed in a lot of stories.

 

[Donut]

Its like Sony & fox has a bet going on 2 see who can do the worst MARVEL based movies

 

[batman44]

LOL this cannot be true, but if it is it would have to be one of the oddest CBM ideas yet.

 

[HAMMER]

Its like Sony & fox has a bet going on 2 see who can do the worst MARVEL based movies

t:

 

[Fincher]

Bonus points if everyone calls her Aunt May in the movie, for no apparent reason. And she insists on doing the other spies' laundry.

 

[ThePhantasm]

Guys this can totally work

This is IT!!!

THE LAST BATTLE!!!!

 

[Doctor Octopus]

Guys this can totally work

This is IT!!!

THE LAST BATTLE!!!!

They say it's a Spider-Man free movie so they couldn't do those stories.

 

[ThePhantasm]

'Twas a joke.

But my joke point still stands... make Aunt May into an elderly assassin who marries Doc Ock. Profit. No Spidey needed.

 

[Venom Spectre]

Turns out Aunt May is a HYDRA sleeper agent! *dun dun dun* I'd watch that movie.

 

[MrSpyder]

Look at all these rumors....Can't take it no more

 

[Katsuro]

I am SO happy to see that this bit of news is meeting with the ridicule that it so richly deserves by all these wonderful responses here on this thread...

There's really no other way to take it. I can't even begin to imagine a single person unironically defending this movie. I had to check to make sure it wasn't April 1st when I first read it.

 

[Slushy]

"Can I come home now?", Spider-Man asked.

 

[Tec15]

Finally, the adaptation of Mark Millar's "Trouble", the world has been waiting for! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_(comics)

 

[DDS]

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.c...ng-a-spider-man-spinoff-about-young-aunt-may/

UPDATE 11/11/14 4:00 PM PT: When reached by CBR News, a source within Sony stated that the report of a Spider-Man spinoff starring a young Aunt May is a “silly rumor” with “no validity whatsoever.”

Phew.

Although I think the fact we believed this should say something.

 

[ThePhantasm]

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT you mean Latino Review was wrong about something? What next?!!?!?!

 

[craigdbfan]

It wouldn't surprise me if Sony execs really did toss that idea around. Jeez.

Disney save us pls.

 

[PunyGod]

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[Human Torch]

May Parker. Wife. Aunt. Wheatcake maker extraordinaire.


Next Summer: Aunt May-The Motion Picture.

 

[Immortalfire]

The plot has been released: The movie will focus on young May Reilly, an agent of SHIELD, hot on the trail of a stolen wheatcake recipe.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/11/7193339/sony-is-screwing-up-spider-man

Sony is screwing up Spider-Man

Rumors of an Aunt May movie hint at what's wrong with the franchise

By Kwame Opam

Sony wants Spider-Man to be as big as The Avengers, and no property is too good to milk for all it's worth. On top of The Sinister Six and the third Amazing Spider-Man film, Latino Review now reports that Sony executives are batting around the idea of a movie focusing on Peter Parker's Aunt May. And she'll, of course, be a spy in the swinging Mad Men era. Even if Sony comes out and says this isn't happening, that it's even a rumor worth addressing hints at how bad the Spider-Man franchise is already getting.
Sony is stretching the Spider-Man mythos to its limit
Sony isn't shy about its ambitions for Spider-Man. All The Amazing Spider-Man 2 really did, aside from ending what was a genuinely likable onscreen pairing, was tease sequels and spinoffs. Did it make one lick of sense that Harry Osborn became the Green Goblin, other than the fact he's supposed to? No. But he did, and now he's poised for appearances in the followups. All this is because Sony wants to do the kind of world-building that Marvel is doing with The Avengers and what DC plans on doing with the Justice League. And in its desperation to play superhero catch-up, it's stretching the Spider-Man mythos to its conceivable limits.
And it's not working. Spidey doesn't work that way. The reason why The Avengers and even Man of Steel in its best moments worked was because both films understood scale. Spider-Man, at his heart, is a small-town hero, and his best stories tend be focused largely on him, his relationships, and his struggles. Making him the heart of an expansive movie universe is wrongheaded, betrays the soul of the character, and makes it clear that Sony just wants the money.
A story about Aunt May isn't a story about Spider-Man
The thing is, Sony can't even really be faulted for wanting those sweet superhero dollars. Everyone's doing it. But making a hypothetical Aunt May movie of all things would be the worst move in a string of bad moves dating back to Spider-Man 3, and it would hint at a cynicism that leaves a bad taste in the mouth. First, it's a risky, downright nonsensical project, especially as it took this long to give Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel — hugely important characters, don't forget — movies of their own. Second, the Parker backstory in the films, already full of corporate intrigue, was one of the most disliked plotlines in the rebooted series. Third, the one comic story from May's youth being mentioned in these rumors, Trouble, was booted from generally accepted canon because it was terrible. Fourth, telling a story about Aunt May isn't telling a story about Spider-man, which is already the biggest problem with Sony's present plans.
We already know that Spider-Man's New York City (let's not even call it a world) is being carved up to contain the Sinister Six, Venom, and maybe even Black Cat in the coming years. Meanwhile, Sony won't be bringing its main draw back to theaters until 2018 and can't even seem to keep big-name screenwriters around for the project.
But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Sony isn't actually this stupid. I, for one, will just keep on hoping against all hope for a Marvel deal that lets Peter Parker become an Avenger by 2019. If an Aunt May movie somehow rests in the realm of possibility, that should, too.

 

[TheVileOne]

This is why I hate stories like this. They are obviously fake, but an outlet picks it up so everyone else picks it up and its fake.

Latino Review reports it, but because Latino Review has gotten some things right before everyone has to report it. Story turns out to be BS.

Still waiting for the Planet Hulk and World War Hulk announcements. Christian Bale appearing in Justice League as Batman.

 

[GoldGoblin]

So the female spin off who everyone thought was Black Cat,is actually Aunt May?Wow the spidey franchise is in more trouble than I thought.

 

[Venom Spectre]

Watched Sevenwebhead's video about Sony confirming this is fake. We can sleep well, for now.