Anna Daniels
Holland just might have paved the way for a way for a cinematic crossover the likes of which the world has never seen, which is really saying a lot in an age when it seems like every IP imaginable is in line to get its own cinematic universe. As you may be aware, Sony continues to produce Spidey’s MCU-set solo adventures, and also non-MCU-set films based on the wall-crawler’s ancillary characters (like Venom, which banked over $850 million worldwide). Sony’s series is known as the “Sony Universe of Marvel Characters,” or SUMC for short.
In September 2019, after Sony and Marvel’s reconciliation, Marvel Studios head honcho and King Geek Kevin Feige teased that the two studios might be cooking up plans for Spidey to somehow bridge the gap between the SUMC and MCU. “[Spider-Man] happens to be the only hero with the superpower to cross cinematic universes, so as Sony continues to develop their own Spidey-verse, you never know what surprises the future might hold,” Feige said at that time (via Variety).
It may not take long for that tease to come to fruition. The trailer for the SUMC’s next entry, this summer’s Morbius, featured a shot of a poster of Spidey (actually a promo image for the PS4 game Marvel’s Spider-Man) defaced with graffiti reading, “MURDERER” — an apparent reference to Peter Parker having been framed for the “murder” of Quentin Beck/Mysterio in Spider-Man: Far From Home. It appears to be the first instance of the two franchises acknowledging each other… and it just may herald a partial or complete merging of the two universes.
Hopefully, Morbius will make whatever strategy the two studios have cooking a little bit clearer. The flick hits theaters on July 31, 2020.
Written by: Looper
