Spiderman out of the MCU?

So, it's not totally for sure yet, but it looks very likely that the Marvel-Sony partnership to bring Spiderman into the MCU is over.

Apparently Disney wanted more money as part of the deal, and you know what? They are completely justified.

Homecoming and especially Far From Home made literally hundreds of millions of dollars that they would not have made were it not for this version of the character being in the MCU.  Those Andrew Garfield movies did alright, but they were far from huge successes. That's why Sony was open to the deal in the first place. That Spiderman franchise had really been run into the ground. They needed the MCU very badly. The mistake Sony might be making is thinking they don't still need the MCU.

We are at the point where, if Marvel characters are not in an MCU movie, that movie is very likely to not do that well. And for the next Spiderman movie it could be even worse, cause a huge portion of the fanbase will still be mad about Sony taking that character out of the MCU.

I don't think an MCU-free Spiderman 3 would flop, but I can guarantee it won't make a billion dollars. I can guarantee you that, with the Spiderverse removed from the MCU, a lot of these other movies Sony has planned will make less money than they otherwise would. Venom was not an MCU movie, but obviously its success is owed at least somewhat to the idea that it might eventually merge with the MCU, and to that goodwill that Sony had earned with the deal.

It's especially dumb to do this on a cliffhanger. Everybody was going to want to see how that ending got resolved, but now it would almost have to be a very different 3rd movie. And there could be no references to anything in the previous 2 films that are also.connected to the MCU. So no more Tony references. No more Happy. No references at all to the.blip. If the EDITH glasses were still gonna be a thing they probably can't be now. Even if it's still a good movie, everyone is going to have half a brain wondering what it COULD have been.

It's just bad business.

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