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Jun 20Liked by Jonathan Hansen

So bizarre. It only makes sense if the Sony execs think of these films ad Extruded Superhero Paste products, throwing writers at quarter-page OHOTMU entries and demanding feature films from it. I was thinking Silk could be fun, but she’s also totally tied up with Peter Parker—at least the next Playstation game will probably make good use of her. It’s such a miracle that the Spider-verse movies are even watchable, let alone masterpiece-level.

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Silk would be a good character for a film, although it’d probably be a little like making a Mockingbird movie when you’ve got Black Widow sitting right there, but yeah… she’d still be a much better bet than Madame Web… I wish there was some way to find out who this project started with. Who the first to pitch it? I want to know.

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Jun 22Liked by Jonathan Hansen

I seriously think it was an IP mining op. A Sony exec pounding the desk like JJ Jameson, shouting, “Here’s Issue M of the Marvel Universe Handbook—bring me back a Spider movie or don’t come back at all!”

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“Madame Web? Are they popular?”

“Possibly!”

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