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Known about this for a while. What I wonder is if they will release Spidey 4 before Avengers and include him in the line-up, or what? I mean, he hasn't traditionally been a full member, but he has been reserve.
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Spider-Man won't be in the Avengers movie. Sony owns the film rights to the character, not Marvel Studios. They refused to sign off on his planned cameo in The Incredible Hulk, I have doubts that they'll change their minds any time soon.
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quote:Originally posted by T:man: Someone else put up some linkys not so good with ubb
Not so good with the English language, either. Skokie schools have apparently gone downhill since I lived there.
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It bore repetition. Show some respect for yourself if you can't show some for the rest of us. Ask a friend to show you where the shift key is and maybe read a book on grammar.
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During the coda of the film he beats up his wife.
(Mark Millar actually had this as the coda of his vastly overrated, written-for-shock-value first Ultimates mini-series.)
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quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat: Spider-Man won't be in the Avengers movie. Sony owns the film rights to the character, not Marvel Studios. They refused to sign off on his planned cameo in The Incredible Hulk, I have doubts that they'll change their minds any time soon.
There was supposed to be a Spider-man cameo? I didn't know that. I did think it would have been cool if there was at least some reference to Spidey when the Hulk and Abomination were tearing up New York.
It sucks that Spider-man can't be involved in the larger Marvel movie universe. I hate when business gets in the way of stuff like that.
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Yeah, when Bruce & Betty went to meet the Lea-...uhm, his internet buddy, there was supposed to be a teasing cameo of Peter Parker climbing up a wall. But, Sony refused.
So, the cinematic Marvel Universe will be restricted to the Avengers and many of the non Spidey/X-team/F4 characters. For now. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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They didn't even need to have him appear. I would have just liked an acknowledgment that he exists in the same world. Maybe during Abomination's rampage General Ross could have made a half-sarcastic remark like, "Where's Spider-man when you need him?". Can't they at least mention the character without Sony's permission?
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quote:Can't they at least mention the character without Sony's permission?
I imagine they can't, no.
I don't see why they couldn't. There must be countless movies in which characters reference other fictional characters from other IPs.
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I really don't know much about how these things work, but I would guess that Sony only owns the right to have Spidey appear in movies. He's still Marvel's character, so I would think that they can at least use his name. After all, they mentioned Superman by name in Spider-man and he definitely doesn't belong to Sony or Marvel.
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The mention of Superman fell under referring to him as a fictional character, not one who existed and could be expected to turn up in-film.
Still, a mention is fairly uninteresting. Like the mention of Doctor Strange in Spider-Man 2. Cute and all, but nowhere near as exciting as seeing Tony Stark talk about forming the Avengers.
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quote:After all, they mentioned Superman by name in Spider-man and he definitely doesn't belong to Sony or Marvel.
I think the difference is in that when they mentioned Superman in the Spiderman movies you are supposed to know that the characters in the movie are referring to a fictional character. If they mention Spiderman, they would have to mentioning him in some way that made it perfectly clear that he was just a comic book character, not another person running around the same city. Like "too bad spiderman isn't real, we could use his help" or something. Also while mentioning him may not be purely illegal, it is probably better for Marvel and Sony if Marvel doesn't push it, as they may want to work together in the future.
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I'm sort of just making the assumption that the announced Ant Man film is the same as the announced project by Edgar Wright (famed writer/director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz).
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