As you’d expect given the character’s unquestionable status as the most lucrative weapon in the studio’s arsenal, Sony is doing all that it can to ensure the pipeline of Spider-Man content keeps flowing across live-action, animation, film, and television.
The upcoming sequels to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse are already drumming up plenty of hype – which is fair enough when the Academy Award-winning opener is one of the finest superhero movies of the modern era – but everything beyond that doesn’t quite get the juices flowing, with the exception of Tom Hardy’s Venom 3.
Morbius went down like a lead balloon, Kraven the Hunter taking an environmentally-conscious angle has already been roasted, Madame Web has a lot of work to do in order to win over the doubters, nobody was really asking for Hypno-Hustler, El Muerto, or the episodic Silk: Spider Society to exist, while there’s no doubt going to be riots in the streets if Nicolas Cage isn’t at the least invited to return for the Spider-Man Noir series.
Even though we’re going to see the fan favorite variant brought to life by the inimitable Oscar Isaac in Across the Spider-Verse, a live-action twist on Spider-Man 2099 has been at the top of wish-lists for what feels like forever. However, in a similar vein to DC diehards demanding Batman Beyond be brought to the screen, it’s never come close to getting off the ground.
On the flipside, a Reddit thread has made it abundantly clear that no matter how much people desire to see a Spider-Man 2099 blockbuster, there’s absolutely no confidence in Sony being able to pull of a futuristic cyberpunk epic. Based on what we’ve seen dating back well over a decade and change, you can completely understand why.