It's just not going to happen, people. Marvel is not going to get the rights back for Spider-Man, or the X-Men, or the Fantastic Four. You've got to stop holding on to hope that it's going to happen. No amount of complaining, or hating on movies that are actually good, or hoping that movies flop at the box office so that Sony or Fox will surrender the rights back to Marvel is going to make that happen. It's getting really ridiculous people, and it just has to stop already. Please stop clicking on those stupid pieces from rumor sites and stop sharing them with your friends. If a Marvel exec says "never say never" when asked about getting the rights back for any of those properties that doesn't mean that it's about to happen, or that Marvel is talking to Sony or Fox about it. The only thing it means is that if by some chance Sony or Fox was looking to sell, then of course Marvel would listen. It doesn't mean that anyone's actually talking about it. If Andrew Garfield is asked about showing up in a future Marvel film as Spider-Man and says "yeah, I'd be good with it....we'll see what happens.." that doesn't mean he's hiding something. It just means that hell yeah he'd like to do it. I'm sure if you asked Henry Cavill about showing up in a Marvel movie as Superman he wouldn't say "well, seeing as how Superman isn't a Marvel character I just don't see how that would be feasible or a realistic thing to expect." He'd probably just chuckle and say "sure, why not?" Which of course would launch a thousand rumor site posts about Marvel buying DC. That's the level of stupid we're dealing with here. So far this is the kind of tomfoolery we've seen on these fronts:
- People calling Amazing Spider Man 2 a flop when it made the same amount of money as Captain America: the Winter Soldier and X-Men: Days of Future Past. And when you bring that up, they hit you with 'well, it cost $400 million to make it, so the profit isn't that high' or 'they expected it to gross $1 billion so it's a failure'. Sigh....... If it really did cost $400 million total to make and market the movie, then it still made a $300 million profit. I guarantee you there is not one other Sony product that netted the company that much money. And some guy in the executive suite getting a little loose with it when talking about how much money they could gross doesn't mean the studio was counting on a $1 billion gross.
- People dumping all over Amazing Spider Man 2 when it was truer to the source material than any of their beloved Sam Raimi films. The only real problem with ASM 2 is that it wasn't made by Marvel Studios. I guarantee you that if you took the exact same movie, scratched out 'Sony' and replaced it with 'Marvel Studios' before it was released 90% of the bashing would have never happened. I'm not going to go through a point by point refutation of the idea that the Raimi films were better. I've already done that here and it's been done in other places. Just stop already.
- Jumping to conclusions that Marvel was going to get him back - When Marvel first announced the Robert Downey, Jr was going to be in Cap 3, and that it was going to be title Civil War, some people couldn't help but think that since Spider Man was a key piece of the Civil War print story they would have to include in the film version. Yeah....not really. The film version isn't likely to resemble the print version any more than Winter Soldier or Age of Ultron do or will. So there is zero reason to make a run at getting rights to Spider-Man so you can give him a 30 minute subplot to a two hour movie. Sorry folks.
- Sony isn't giving it up - ASM 2 made at least $300 million in profit. Like I said earlier no Sony product netted them that much. Not to mention that Spider Man is one of the few movies properties that can survive a truly bad outing. Spider Man 3 was really bad, and yet they were able to wait a few years and start everything back up successfully with a new director and new cast. Just like how WB has done with Batman and Superman. There is no scenario in which owning the movie rights to Spider Man is a bad thing for Sony. So they're gonna keep him.
- Marvel doesn't need him - Marvel has a fully planned out movie universe through May of 2019. Adding Spider to the current mix would throw everything off. And no, they can't drop him in currently planned films as a second banana. If they got him back, all of you would want full blown Spider Man movies, not cameos or supporting roles. And honestly if you're going to reacquire the movie rights you'd be stupid to limit him to the same role that, say, Falcon played in Cap 2.If by some miracle it did happen you wouldn't see a Spidey film until after the Avengers business was all wrapped up, which means fall of 2019. You really want to wait that long just so you watch a Spider Man film with a Marvel Studios label on it?
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